The sun is setting into a western sky thick with clouds over Colorado’s jagged Continental Divide as a Union Pacific coal train drops downgrade at Crescent at 7:42 p.m. on May 14, 2017.

The 7913 poses for another night photo in front of my camera, as it pulls freight train Q571 on the West Point Route. This evening the 1... (more)

An unexpected R181 double stack train makes an appearance on the West Point Route this evening as it comes into the small town of Loachapoka. This intermodal train from Stockton, CA doesn't run w... (more)

Heading into the rays of the setting sun, four sunkist orange BNSF engines glide north with stack containers (majority of them J.B. Hunt) just yards away from crossing the defect detector at mp 8... (more)

Iowa Interstate's Rock Island Heritage unit leads the daily Blue Island to Council Bluffs train through Marseilles Illinois past the restored depot.

Westbound empty hopper train 771 passes through the CPL signals at White in my 3rd trip down here in 4 days. With the cutover date for the remaining CPL signals set to take place within the next f... (more)

A dream come true. I have always wanted to shoot the C&NW Twins passing C&NW signals. Well on the morning of my birthday, I said enough was enough and made a dream a reality. C&NW 8646 leads the w... (more)

BNSF 6535 leads a manifest freight west up the old SP&S main at Marshall, WA. This line is normally used for westbounds, but today a Z-train is over taking the manifest on the old NP line which is... (more)

NB Q692-21 gets it train out of Waycross, GA towards Savannah then Augusta and to Kingsport, TN.

Norfolk Southern's Pennsylvania heritage unit leads a toasty AC44C6M rebuild east under the PRR signal bridge in Rochester, Pennsylvania.

BNSF 5917 snuck by three other westbounds waiting at Helena depot and slows to a stop at Head Lane, west of Helena Jct., where it will add a quartet of MRL SD70ACe helpers for the ride up Mullan P... (more)

BNSF 5113 heads up the initial grade out of Helena, MT with a manifest freight. The train will soon pass through Austin and then tackle the mountain grade up to Mullan Pass. The GE pair are being ... (more)

The Capitol Limited races west from Washington, DC passing a MARC GP39H2 that arrived Brunswick, MD shortly before Amtrak with the evening return of the commuters to the suburbs.

BNSF 8229 heads north and east towards Whitefish, MT with an empty grain shuttle. The train is about to cross a typical Idaho crossing at West Colburn, just north of Sand Point, ID. A bit unusual ... (more)

An eastbound CSX freight clatters over the diamond at AC Tower in Marion, Ohio.