As afternoon thunder storms pop up, this eastbound BNSF coal train with an DPU on the rear snakes its way through an s-curve en route to Donkey Creek Junction.

As an afternoon storm breaks up, the sun peeks through just in time for this eastbound UP coal train to be photographed in golden evening light.

After a long day on Crawford Hill, I took State Route 20 to Douglas WY. On the way the clouds parted just in time to shoot is coal train with coal dust blowing on a blustery evening.

My first visit to Crawford Hill was a good one; it's a great place to rail fan! This shot here is close to one I saw in a rail magazine, and had to get. I thought the flat top mountains as a bac... (more)

My first visit to Crawford Hill was a good one with great weather, lots of trains, and great photo locations. This one of my favorite shot from that long Sunday on the high planes, it's a set of ... (more)

After getting a fresh crew at Sparks this eastbound stack train leaves the Snow capped Sierras behind, and has the open desert ahead.

What a clear evening at the Yolo Causeway. Looking east you can see, Sacramento, the foot hills, and even the Sierra Nevada Mountains about 100 miles away. I shot this Capital train with P32-8 l... (more)

It had been a while since I had last seen 1983 around these parts, thankfully by buddy Ryan Dadgari call me when he was out trackside and told me she was on her way, and to get out here to get you... (more)

On a cool fall evening a eastbound Ballast train is set against a colorful sunset on the western plains.

Some fellow rail fans and I spent the dinner break during Winterail this year like many others at the site of the old Stockton tower. The tower is gone, but there’s still lots of trains running... (more)

On a cool, crisp morning on Donner Pass an UP eastbound stack train leaves the town of Truckee behind. Two days before there was possibly the last snow storm of the winter leaving a dusting of sn... (more)

With a heavy snow falling, this westbound stack train is passing through Soda Springs westbound. Ryan Dadgari, and I stood in this snow storm for only about 15 minutes before shooting my first st... (more)

At dusk, the DPU of an eastbound UP stack train leaves an light trail as it's train snakes along the Feather River.

I used an 70-200 zoom lens set at 200mm to frame up this UP staker at Boca , CA, as it rounds the bend with fresh snow on the ground. Stack trains over Donner Pass in the snow, boy it‘s a beau... (more)

From the I-80 Rest stop at Emigrant Gap, I was shooting my last shot of the day which was for the 2009 "A Day in North America" issue of Railroads Ill. The storm clouds from a passing storm parted... (more)