Union Pacific consolidation #618 crosses the Snake Creek Trestle during winter. This is the winning color photograph from Winterail 2009.

The Christine Anderson momentarily halts boarding as #509 streaks through the S curves, along the shores of Washington State's first incorporated city, Steilacoom. The original NP Point Defiance... (more)

A large herd of elk are more interested in the grain and I rather than the train that is about to hit them!

The only word I can find to describe this scene is "surreal." Indeed, a bright three-quarter moon lighting up the Cascade Range forest during a blizzard could only be something imagined in one's ... (more)

Some 44 years and change after Tom Sink's recently-posted photo, I found myself at the same location, only I was sur... (more)

Angelic ALP. An ALP44 is on the rear of yet another rush hour southbound as the sun reflects off the Raritan Bay and clouds above.

Following the ice storm that has crippled Southern Indiana and nearly the entire state of Kentucky, a CSX powered coal empty heads North along EVWR tracks towards Illinois through fog and the ice ... (more)

I had been trying to capture this shot on a sunny morning for more than two years, but until the 20th the proper circumstances had not come together. Amtrak Cascades #513 was running about 25 min... (more)

The detoured Coast Starlight has just passed through the Soledad Canyon road under crossing in the last rays of sun light

The Spencer local pushes thru a decent drift near MP 163, just west of Sexton. With the train traveling 10 mph the snow begins to pile up on the front of the locomotive. This train was loaded at H... (more)

A BNSF priority manifest works upgrade in a light snowfall, as a dwarf signal protects movement out of the siding at Tehachapi Summit.

What looks to be a deserted King Street Station at the height of the Friday evening commute is fitting for a week in which no less than 3,400 Seattle based WaMu employees learned they no longer ha... (more)

Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr skims along the desert floor at the foot of Utah's Book Cliffs.

Snow, wind and cold. A westbound freight creeps out of the western portal of the Allegheny Tunnel, greeted by snow covered tracks. With the wind whipping, I was surprised I was able to keep the ... (more)

Alaska Railroads first passenger train of the morning is about to cross under the highway to Seward as the train itself makes its way to Seward. Interestingly the railroad is physically shorter th... (more)