Three days after Christmas 2007, a westbound NS hopper train climbs upgrade from Natural Tunnel to Sunbright on a rainy and gloomy day in southwestern Virginia.

With temperatures hovering around 50 and snow melting the Highland Cut is quickly filling up with fog. For the first time this day sun pokes through the overcast as Norfolk & Western heritage lea... (more)

A powerful severe thunderstorm is about to hit the SP Tucson Yard engine facilty. This time exposure captures 6 bolts. The bolt on the left hits less than a quarter mile away. I release the shutte... (more)

The snow capped continental divide provides the backdrop as Amtrak #6 meets a westbound BNSF Trackage Rights Manifest at the East Portal.

Just minutes before the first rays of sunlight reach the Kalte Rinne viaduct, 2 OBB 1144-series locomotives pull a mixed freight train uphill towards Semmering. This viaduct is one of many on this... (more)

The early morning sun reflects a nice orange glow off the sides of five cryo-trans refrigerated boxcars seen at the head end of today’s Q551 as this train comes to a stop at Pine Street control po... (more)

No snow for Christmas, but a few days after a couple of inches finally fell, providing the opportunity to catch Amtrak's heritage unit #156 in a wintry scene crossing Buck Creek in Grandville, MI.... (more)

A trio of CN units is pulling uphill toward the Palmer Divide passing the often-photographed barn at Greenland.

Sun rays filter through the trees after a late afternoon rain shower. I pass by this crossing a hundred or more times a year, but this time was special and I just had to stop. After firing off a f... (more)

After a cold and cloudy day the sun makes a brief appearance before setting, covering everything in a golden glow as an NS train with 8980-9504 is tied down in the yard. The high winds causing the... (more)

Storming out of Alamosa, Colorado, a San Luis and Rio Grande train heads east at sunrise on September 20, 2007. The photo freight is led by former Southern Pacific 2-6-0 No. 1744.

Winter’s blue hour: Just after sunset, Union Pacific rotary snowplow No. 900082 heads east approaching Wallace, Kansas, on New Year’s Day 2007, during that magical time on a snowy winter evening w... (more)

Snow covers the Mississippi River farmland as evenly numbered UP 6000 pushes an empty coal train north.

Amtrak Adirondack slams into snow drift leftover from a snow plow as it heads toward Rouses Point N.Y

SP's PRGVR 'Elberta Turn' meets UP's CSRLA (Sharp, UT - Los Angeles, CA) export coal train at the Payson trestle in southern Utah County. The UP train had stopped briefly for a red signal at CP C7... (more)