Approach, Clear, Galaxy.

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Ancient Semaphores guard the the galactic core of the Milky Way as i... (more)

Timing is everything, and everything came together as three trains converged at CN (former DM&IR) Dock 6 while the distinctive Algoma Central laker John D. Leitch loaded ore. Great light and color... (more)

Before a full day of chasing trains on CSX's Tallahassee Subdivision I was greeted to this sunrise at Douglas City... Breathtaking.... Absolutely Breathtaking.

"Night Moves"

Just before sunset, BNSF AC4400CW No. 5618 approaches Pueblo Junction with an empty coal train under a rainbow in Pueblo, Colorado, on July 27, 2019. The train is about to come off the Spanish Pea... (more)

Fully loaded and pulling hard out of the mine past 82 Station cinders flying everywhere, whistle blowing, and drivers pounding the railhead. I will never forget my time in China and only wish I co... (more)

UP 4014 heads back west over the famous Kate Shelley High Bridge just west of Boone, Iowa.

Canadian National celebrates 100 years! In 1919 the Canadian Parliament created the Canadian National Railway from several defunct bankrupt railroads. Here in Lytton, BC CN3224 in celebratory pai... (more)

19d #3322 and 24 #3655 double head the first runpast of the tour near Malmesbury as dawn breaks. Possibly the most satisfactory runpast of the whole tour.

The sun pokes through the thick Virginia fog as K446 crosses the Copper Creek Viaduct.

UP 4014's articulation is on full display as it rolls around the wye at 7th Street. The train will get on the UP's Altoona Sub at Westminster, and head east to Altoona.

A memory of the disappeared railway that climbed to the CODELCO Potrerillos mining zone, FERRONOR copper train going through the most difficult and spectacular section, between Montandon and Potre... (more)

The pair of BNSF C4 Gevos on the head of this Greenville & Western unit ethanol train look extremely out of place on a piece of track being reclaimed by the Carolina woods.

UP 4014 leads the Union Pacific Museum Special across the Kate Shelley High Bridge over the Des Moines River.