The American Orient Express (AOE) was a privately owned, ultra-luxurious passenger train that operated in conjunction with Amtrak from 1994 until 2008. Its lineage can be traced back to the Americ... (more)

The hoarfrost is burning off around Galesburg on this crisp December morning in 1992. The Illinois Zephyr makes good time on its morning trek from Quincy to Chicago. The train is on the BN 4th Sub... (more)

In the late 1990s, the Iowa Northern Railway (IANR) was going through a difficult time and had leased a variety of locomotives to augment its fleet of GP20s and GP38s. A couple of Amtrak units wer... (more)

Amtrak 266 leads Train #80 northbound across the Yadkin River Bridge just north of Spencer North Carolina.

P633 rolls south skirting Frater Lake and the eastern border of Lake Superior Provincial Park, CN still dispatches the Soo Sub for Watco and the tour train's ID hasn't changed. This location has b... (more)

Cruising over the picturesque Bellevue Valley, the ACR's tour train heads northbound through the fall colours on a crisp fall morning with the frost still on the ties. The colour change happened q... (more)

The Agawa Canyon tour train weaves its way through the fog in a typical fall morning scene along Island Lake. Its journey through the Algoma District to Canyon (MP 114) is just getting underway pa... (more)

Growing up (and still), I was fascinated by shots from float planes traversing the vast swaths of largely undeveloped and isolated lakes, forests and streams of the rugged Canadian shield. Much of... (more)

Passengers take in beauty of remote northern Ontario on their way to the Agawa Canyon, approaching MP 58 at the north end of a serene Trout Lake with the hardwoods painting the rugged fall landsca... (more)

The Agawa Canyon tour train rolls northbound skirting the remote shoreline of Trout Lake, home to only a handful of residents and known as the "MP 57 community" just north of Mashkode. It's access... (more)

With a pair of F40's sandwiching a GP38 and yard slug, the Iowa Northern's BBUWA rolls past a golden maple tree as it approaches the railroad's yard in Waterloo, Iowa. This train would have to pau... (more)

Milepost 1035. Tri-Rail F40PH 811 is seen hauling a three-car train towards 62nd St in Hialeah.

Amtrak Train 79 has just left Pomona Station in Greensboro and is rolling southbound.

Emerging from the morning fog like a mythical beast, the Agawa Canyon Tour Train soars above the Bellevue Valley on its journey into the wilderness of Northern Ontario.

With water smooth as glass and maples ablaze in colour, the Agawa Canyon Tour Train glides through the beautiful Northern landscape at Island Lake, Ont., on October 5. A big thanks to the folks... (more)