WW&F Engineman Robert Longo. WW&F Engineman Robert "Bullet Bob" Longo, poses with the 130 year-old Locomotive #9 at the Sheepscot Water Tank, in Alna, Maine.

Blowdown at Sunrise

Just when the dirt road through the Colorado river gorge reached again the edge of the canyon, this UP mixed freight came along, together with the only sunshine spot of the day! Leading are AC4400... (more)

NS 911 MOW rail train parts the dawn ground fog on its westbound journey on the former Wabash Railroad line at Clymers, IN.

A full moon rises over Lucerne, BC as Q198's train slowly makes its way towards a congested Jasper, AB with CN ET44AC 3115 bringing up the rear.

CN C40-8 2036 leads train Q102 through a winter wonderland on the Edson Sub just east of Swan Landing.

A hazy morning provides a sepia colored sky as AMTK 69 (P42DC) leads a triple headed California Zephyr through Keenesburg and towards Denver, Colorado.

An early winter snowfall and picture-perfect conditions find SD70ACU 7058 leading mixed freight east at Morant's Curve. The second-last of CP's order of 60 SD70ACUs, the 7058 is one of two units ... (more)

CN ET44AC 3216 leads a heavy sand train up the hill at Medicine Lodge. These loads are coming from Weyerhauser, WI heading to Grande Prairie, AB.

M304's train crosses the impressive trestle just west of Fabyan, AB.

A local commuter in his Cadillac pauses at the Verdant View Farm crossing as Strasburg Rail Road decapod #90 speeds by on the morning of October 18, 2020. Built in 1924 for the Great Western Rail... (more)

A September day comes to a close as a short CSX work train of side dump cars scoots along the James River near Big Island, Virginia.

On a cold November morning a westbound BNSF grain train stretches across the rails at Cherokee with Cherokee Point silhouetted by the rising sun.

The early morning sun greets an empty CSX Brice coal train E321 starting into the cut beside the Levisa Fork in Pikeville,KY.

It’s well below 0°F in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan on the frigid eve of January 18, 1997. The sun is lowering almost as fast as the the temperature when eastbound Wisconsin Central freight ... (more)