Roosters get a day off at Verdant View Farm as the "Queen of Steam" welcomes daybreak with an impressive plume and a hearty whistle!

The power - three SD40s plus three B367s - kind of tells you that is probably an important CSX train sitting just beyond the signal. That doesn't matter, as the Southern (well, ok... NS) long-ran... (more)

Southern went in big for the GP35, eventually owning 76. Five, including 244, were purchased for Central of Georgia, and stood out by having three-digit numbers and Blomberg trucks. The other 71... (more)

CZ / 196 Praha Uhrineves - Salzburg Liefering

It's 2019 and traffic on the CSXT Bellwood Subdivision has rapidly diminished from the days of the Seaboard. At one point, this bridge carried hotshot trains like the Orange Blossom Special, or th... (more)

Russian Railway's 2TE10MK locomotive hauled a long freight train entering Mongolian territory from Russia. This place is one of the highlighted railfanning places of our summer and autumn tour pro... (more)

Wildfire smoke blowing in from Arizona and New Mexico casts a thick haze over the Animas River canyon as #473 leads a Silverton-bound doubleheader past Cement Wall.

This wide angle view shows BNSF 7068 (ES44C4) leading a long train through Little Ten Curve in the lower left and Big Ten curve on the right. Also visible is the Denver skyline in the upper right ... (more)

It’s just after sunset, and the sinking sun is still flirting with a few red clouds to the west, as an eastbound BNSF coal empty rumbles alongside a frozen Frog Pond at Trout Creek, Montana, on Fe... (more)

The LGSR crosses the Lehigh River with the last excursion of the day.

NRFF heads through the Lehigh Gorge on their way north.

The Colorado Fuel & Iron steel mill looms on the horizon over Santa Fe’s CF&I local returning to the Santa Fe yard in Pueblo, Colorado. The train is seen crossing the Salt Creek just east of the m... (more)

Amtrak has returned to the "Star City" for the night and unloads passengers at the platform.

The Lehigh Valley heritage unit brings up the rear DPU position on loaded Norfolk Southern coal train 80W as it heads east on the Guyandot River Branch. In Justice, West Virginia the tracks cross ... (more)

BNSF 6861 (ES44C4) leads a freight towards Tunnel 29 at Pinecliffe, Colorado.