Sunset on the Rockville. Recently I have found myself photographing more of the shortline railroading around the country. Usually you are relegated to working with the weather or lighting that occ... (more)

The fog was heavy in the valley as the EBT #16 prepares to depart with a northbound (photo) freight train. This was taken on the last morning of a fall Lerro charter.

The fall colors have not yet found south east Pennsylvania as 2 trains wait to get into Enola yard while a ballast train comes across the Rockville bridge.

An NS manifest navigates the trench in fall splendor with some of the downtown Pittsburgh skyline in the background. What better place to experience autumn than the "Trench", also know... (more)

The DeCon, AKA, the Detroit Connecting Railway, a sub of the Adrian and Blissfield, trundles towards Milwaukee Junction to interchange with the CN. The ex-Checker Cab Motor Co. SW900 handles dutie... (more)

Not where you may think this is. Nebraska? The Dakotas? How about the north side of Detroit, near Hamtramck! Yes, this is a view of the DeCon, AKA, the Detroit Connecting Railway, a sub of the Adr... (more)

The Cape Cod Central's dinner train crosses the canal to arrive in Buzzard's Bay, MA. While departures are scheduled, arrivals are not and boat traffic will dictate when the bridge is lowered for ... (more)

Once plentiful on the NW and Southern RR, the number of operable high hood SD40s remaining is now reportedly in the single digits. I caught this survivor assigned to switching Oakwood yard's westb... (more)

Even though the days of pulling TOFC freight through the Rathole or dragging wood chip hoppers over the Old Fort loops is over, this venerable work horse still gets to clean the carbon out of its ... (more)

A lonely survivor prepares for a comeback. The F40 was the perfect passenger train workhorse, and for years these were a staple on the local jaunts as well as heading up notable long haul journe... (more)

The unabated decomposition of a once mighty machine marches on. Originally built in the 1950s, these classically styled products of General Motors were the "A" listers of the commuter lo... (more)

Lake State's Railway train 126 trundles into Bay City. A 500mm lens helps to highlight the classy paint scheme but also has the side effect of highlighting jointed rail that is actually not in as ... (more)

Lake States train 126(with the specially labeled honoring the troops loco leading) shoves its train across the Saginaw River to access their small yard on the northside of town.

No GEVOs here. Its great to see a revenue meet between GP35s and GP38s, the 35s are still running on the same rails since their delivery in 1964. The ONTN and CSTN jobs meet in Clare to swap cars ... (more)

Number 500 is the only GP40 on the MRL roster and has lots of history as it was originally Western Pacific 3542, Union Pacific 690, then Chicago Missouri and Western 3025, then Wisconsin Central 3... (more)