In a few moments, these bikes will provide transportation on the final leg of the commute for their owners arriving on this Metra train.

After a week or dismal weather, the sun came out just in time to catch the New York Central heritage unit leading a crude oil train across E. Galena Ave. in downtown Aurora.

BNSF 9374 leads UP 5471, BNSF 5503, BNSF 4514 and a train of mixed freight along East Portal Rd. just east of Tolland, CO. The snow-covered peaks of the Continental Divide are visible on this bea... (more)

It's great when you arrive at a beautiful winter scene, get out of your car and randomly hear a train coming less than a mile away. What's not great is walking up to the edge of a river to get in... (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)

The "pointless arrow" cuts its way through the dark of night, breaking the silence of a peaceful evening in the Kalamazoo River Valley. On the night of December 23rd, 156 made its way on to Amtra... (more)

UP units 6378, 6469, 6304, 5886, 6379, 5901, 6601 lead an empty coal train around the S-curve at Blue Mountain Rd. This was a snowy scene just a few weeks ago, but on this day the sun was shining ... (more)

A view looking straight down over the edge of the cliff at Pinecliffe, CO., of Zephyr #5 heading west over South Bolder Creek.

AMTK units 150 & 151 lead Zephyr #5 as they charge up the grade about to enter Tunnel 1. Shortly before this, the train was struggling to get up the grade at the Big Ten Curve, with two stacks of... (more)

CSXT 3062 (along with CSXT 5006) is bringing up the rear of 130 coal loads, helping to push train N910 up and over East Saugatuck Hill en route to West Olive. Just prior to cresting the hill, the... (more)

3062 rolls light through a tunnel of orange en route to helper duty. The locomotive (and trailing unit CSXT 5006) will meet a coal train a few miles to the south (railroad west) at Wells siding i... (more)

BNSF 5776 & 5976 lead 130 empty coal hoppers down East Saugatuck Hill near New Richmond, MI., on a beautiful autumn morning.

Amtrak's Pere Marquette rolls through a west Michigan "autumn wonderland" on its journey to Chicago.

Amtrak Cascades unit 90251 leads the way through scenic Washington en route to Eugene, OR., on this beautiful summer morn....oh wait, that's not right. It seems someone got a little lost and is f... (more)

Bill and Marshall Beecher grab their shots of Marquette's Z151 as it passes under the historic Colonial Ave overpass. The train is making its second pass after doubling the hill due to rain and w... (more)