Just minute after sunrise, UP 4014 is warming up and steaming to life in preparation for a journey north on the Greeley Sub back to homebase in Cheyenne. The rising sun in golden hour shines throu... (more)

The Big Hill 2.4% A shiny new CPKC locomotive leads an eastbound stack train up the 2.4% section of Canadian Pacific's original "Big Hill" at first light. The original line reached a stag... (more)

A hot shot Z9 intermodal train races down Goffs Hill, through Arrowhead Junction, as it prepares to overtake a stack train at Ibis before reaching the crew change location of Needles, Calif.

M277 crosses over the beautiful Potomac River valley at sunset.

Reading 2102 rests in Port Clinton shortly before blasting out of town with its passenger train on a gorgeous October morning.

While one doesn't normally venture out to the Mojave Desert during summer months, this past weekend offered below normal temperatures. As a result, a trip out to the Needles Subs was in order. Moi... (more)

A CSX interchange via North Baltimore, OH to the Port of Los Angeles intermodal train emerges out of the shadows of Crozier Canyon as it heads west towards Valentine. Though trains destined for po... (more)

An afternoon thunderstorm resulted in cloud layers covering the hot Mojave Desert sun on this late spring day. Thinking our day of good light was over, the clouds began to shift as the sun started... (more)

The sunrise is casting a golden glow over the California Zephyr as it runs west on the Brush Sub towards Keenesburg, Colorado.

Norfolk and Western 611 races sunrise across Pennsylvania as they pass through the farm country of Paradise.

Despite the freeze and the wind, it feels warm as the memories of this day are fading away as the sun sets in the distance, just as the class Sr1 number 3001 the class pioneer is passing the golde... (more)

Reading 2102 steams out of Reading Outer Station with its first excursion of the year on a cloudy February morning.

A New York Transit 7 Train, the Flushing Local and Express, heads out of Manhattan and into Queens shortly after sunset. NYCT 7854 leads this train as it approaches the system's 40 Street-Lower... (more)

At 7:15, just after sunrise following a snowfall the previous evening, Connecticut DOT train 6506 rolls into the Metro-North Harlem-125th Street Station on its way from Manhattan's Grand Central T... (more)

Morning Parade of Passenger Trains The Moffat Sub now carries 2 passenger trains a day each way on most days. A miracle in our time but like old times standing in the golden waves of g... (more)