Now that’s a curve! CLD Pacific Grain’s trackmobile pulls four newly-unloaded covered hoppers around the loop track at CLD’s O-Dock on the Willamette River in downtown Portland... (more)

Amtrak's eastbound Cardinal, train no. 50, arrives for a flagstop at Thurmond, West Virginia, in the heart of the New River Gorge.

The South Branch Valley's Chessie-painted GP9, no. 6240, leads a short Petersburg Turn northward along the railroad's namesake river shortly after departing Petersburg, West Virginia. The water le... (more)

Westbound BNSF mixed freight train framed by the wooden overpass at Home Valley, Washington. The overpass connects state highway 14 with a campground along the Columbia River. Originally built as ... (more)

At the peak of a winter sunrise, a CSX 150-car empty hopper train heads west over the New River at Ansted, West Virginia, as seen from the overlook at Hawks Nest State Park.

On the Hegang Coal Railway in northeastern China, an afternoon passenger train creates a traffic jam as it steams through a busy level crossing. The steam in the foreground is from a food vendor's... (more)

CSX's Sewell Valley Shifter eases downgrade past Meadow Creek Falls with 34 loads of coal to drop off in the small yard at Meadow Creek, West Virginia, junction with the New River Subdivision main... (more)

Union Pacific northbound freight train about to enter the Ostrander Tunnel just north of Kelso, Washington, shrouded by bigleaf maple trees at peak fall color. The photo was made while heading hom... (more)

A fireman on the Huanan Narrow Gauge Coal Railway trims coal in the tender of C2-class 0-8-0 no. 168 during a stop at Xiahua Station. Xiahua, 12 miles east of Huanan, is a common meeting point for... (more)

Southern Pacific steam locomotive no. 4449 arriving at Oaks Park in Portland, Oregon, with the Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation's Holiday Express train on December 12, 2009. The 4449 operated on De... (more)

Agent Marvin Plumley checks paperwork for Amtrak's Cardinal at the ticket window in Prince, West Virginia. The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway opened the Art Deco station in 1946 to serve nearby ... (more)

Female passenger boarding a JR Hokkaido local passenger train at Ginzan Station on the Hakodate Line on Christmas Eve 2006. The two-car KiHa 150 DMU is running from Rankoshi to Otaru, a coastal su... (more)

Union Pacific's Oregon City Switcher has just pulled one boxcar off the "short track" at the Blue Heron Paper Company's mill in downtown Oregon City. At right, vehicles on state highway 99E wait a... (more)

Southern Pacific steam locomotive no. 4449 pulling the Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation's Holiday Express train in Portland, Oregon, on December 11, 2009. The 4449 operated on December 11-13, while... (more)

The St. Maries River Railroad's inbound Clarkia Logger crosses its namesake at Alder Creek, Idaho. Behind the two ex-Milwaukee Road GP9s are 50 loads of logs from the Potlatch reload in Clarkia an... (more)