It almost looks like a one of the main yard tracks at Canadian National’s Proctor Yard is ballasted with taconite pellets on June 13, 2016. This yard is a former Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range p... (more)

The sun is rising over the Clark Fork River Valley east of St. Regis, Montana, on September 13, 1998. Morning fog is slowly burning off as the sun crests over the mountains to the east, silhouetti... (more)

Of blue and steel... coal hopper mtys are backed up under the loading silo and will be ready for loading in the moring at Middlesboro Minings loadout. For decades the operation was known as Appolo... (more)

Night falls on BNSF's Northtown Yard, located just outside the city of Minneapolis.

Sunset on Metra Milwaukee Service junction of North and West service at Western Avenue Station.

Many changes have been happening at Chicago's Union Station. Much of Amtrak's passenger services have been, or in the process of being, relocated closer to the Great Hall. One obvious change in th... (more)

One of the most luxurious trains in the world, the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, is crossing the 120 meter long Secken viaduct on the Gotthard north ramp on the way from Calais via Paris-Basel-Ch... (more)

The sun sets at Norfolk Southern's Coal Pier 6 at Lambert's Point in Norfolk, Virginia. Coal Pier 6 is one of the largest, fastest, and most technologically advanced transloading facilities for co... (more)

This is the section of track where the Oil cars from the Mosier incident on June 3rd "accordioned" and caught fire. The track sections were brought from Portland and The Dalles with UP ... (more)

A view of BNSF's Northtown Yard and the General Mills plant outside Minneapolis, from the air. (Helicopter, not drone)

A load of 56.9 M wind generator blades has been loaded and waits for the IAIS crew to pull the loads and bring in some empties. The blade are bound for the UP in Des Moines, Iowa then on to Amaril... (more)

Two log flats, loaded and ready to be shipped to the Kykenkee lumber mill in Vance, AL. The John Deere knuckleboom loader has made short work of the two flats, which will be picked up by a NS crew... (more)

The great train station of Pittsburgh, designed by Daniel Burnham. Amtrak continues to provide passenger service in the rear, while the station itself has been converted into apartments.

Conrail's ex-New Haven caboose Class N-8A No. 23662 (originally NH Class NE-6 No. 687,) built by International Car Co. in 1948, rounds the Horseshoe Curve westbound, behind a Penn Central trail va... (more)

Mountain Quarry Railroad Bridge, over the North Fork of the American River, is built out of reinforced concrete, the first of its kind. Finished March23 1912 the bridge is 482 Ft long, 15 FT wide ... (more)