A crewmember of Warbonnet BNSF 4717 (Dash-9) shields his eyes from the bright sunlight as the pair of engines heads into the yard in Longmont, Colorado.

BNSF 9716 (SD70MACe) runs through the snow as it heads towards Berthoud, Colorado on the Front Range Sub.

Staten Island Railway 778 trails the westbound De-Icer Train, clear to make the journey to Saint George.

UP 737 (GP38-2 built in 1980 for the Missouri Pacific) sits on the house track in the Union Pacific's North Yard in Denver, Colorado.

Empire Service train 280 passing Peekskill station with P42 129.

I135 pops out of the Randolph Tunnel with the beautiful Potomac Valley in the background after a snow storm. A very trained eye can notice the very top of the abandoned former Western Maryland br... (more)

Out to pasture and up for bids. A possible reason so many NS locomotives end up with second careers is evidenced by the carefully covered stacks. Usually there was a detailed sheaf of papers whe... (more)

The LUE46 local Salt Lake to Tooele, Utah. Has it's work cut out for it on a Saturday morning at the Garfield yard. This is where UP interchanges with Kennecott Copper.

A rebuilt GE brings a Geometry train south towards the city of Roanoke. The duties of this train are to take measurements of the track, making sure that everything is straight and level for see ... (more)

The WW train 102 switches my scrap yard and drops an ill-fated ballast hopper that was deemed cut-local by CSX. From this angle it really looks like a car that got forgotten on its side on a mode... (more)

R.J. Corman's sand train is on the last mile of its journey from Lexington as it nears Nugent Sand for another loading. This train typically runs the Old Road at night so a mid-day appearance was ... (more)

While most railroads had started using wide cabs the "Wait & See", as usual, was not sold on the new technology so for a while they bought conventional cabs (admittedly there were valid ... (more)

C&O 903120, renumber 277 for yard use, and another caboose sit in the now defunct Weirton Yard. The cabooses were once used for slag hauls around the Weirton Mills but have sat unused in the othe... (more)

Oh man did they roar, these mixed second generation assemblages shoving on yet another eastbound coaler.

Western Maryland Scenic #561 rests at the depot in Frostburg during the photographers special.