Cumbres & Toltec K-27 No. 463, masquerading as Rio Grande Southern No. 455, crosses Ferguson's Trestle just as the sun breaks the horizon. This was the second day of a Friends of the Cumbres & Tol... (more)
A Union Pacific Sales And Marketing Special crosses the Gaviota Trestle heading for a overnight stop in San Luis Obispo. The next day it goes north to San Jose and Oakland. Then up the Martinez su... (more)
Empty grain rolls up the Hi-line just east of West Glacier, Montana, late in the day. The train is running on approaches, and will slide in the next siding. He will roll around two westbounds, and... (more)
WMSR 734 rounds Helmstetter's Curve on a Carl Franz Photo Special.
On the morning of August 26 I had a shot in mind, so I set up at a frequently visited spot for the glint. Like a few weeks prior had a few trains backed up. The auto train had been sitting there ... (more)
As the sun climbs into the sky, painting Tehachapi's golden hills in warm morning light, a pair of westbounds are caught in its glint. In the lower foreground Union Pacific's MWCRV carefully drift... (more)
The Rathdrum Prairie is a small but rich region of agriculture nestled between Coeur d' Alene, Idaho and Spokane, Washington. A wide variety of different produce comes from the prairie, and althou... (more)
Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge train No. 461 crawls along the High Line north (timetable west) of Rockwood, Colorado, on the morning of August 14, 2015.
An H1 dash 9 leads a solid train of trailers downgrade at sunset.
Gerald Corder of the Locust Heights and Western Railroad sits at the Saw Mill as the Climax simmers away under the days failing light. What started as a caboose built as a playhouse transformed ... (more)
A Roger Puta Photograph
Smoke from BC wildfires.
A set of six SEPTA Silverliner IV's make their way over the Delaware River crossing the former Reading's West Trenton Railroad Bridge while en route to West Trenton, NJ. The masonry piers alongsi... (more)
On a sunny June 21, 2017, a southbound BNSF stack train appears beneath the rocky cliffs of Sheep Canyon north of Greybull, Wyoming.
Four GP-38’s power Santa Fe’s northbound freight over hill and dale country of central Texas near Moody on May 2, 1971.