In the boiler shop at Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, is a welder (boilermaker by trade) carefully repairing a snow plow on May 19, 2015.

"Photo Line: Open 'em" The commands of Fred Jones and John Tully, the photographers who supplied the light, to open the shutters. The photo session was held at the end of "Railfans' ... (more)

"CLEAR"
A northbound is lit to proceed at Summit on the former Norfolk and Western H Line in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. For this and other photos please visit my sit... (more)

Highball Hinsdale.

"BENTONVILLE NIGHTS"
The stillness in the middle of the night is deafening along the floor of the famous Shenandoah Valley. The roar of bugs chirping or local wildlife calling out can ... (more)

A new wheelset manufactured by Progressive Rail Services in Jackson, S.C. will keep this TTX container car rolling smoothly for many more miles. While wearing off the light coat of rust, that mak... (more)

Amtrak’s eastbound California Zephyr sits in Denver Union Station under the new trainshed on the pleasant Colorado night of December 6, 2014.

A westbound passes through Lava Hot Springs, a resort of sorts with slides, diving boards, soaking pools and tubing down the Portneuf River that flows through town.

Where Rio Grande trains once thundered eastbound to attack the steep grade over Tennessee Pass is now seemingly a garden of sorts. On August 12, 2015, at the east end of the CTC siding at Minturn,... (more)

"SUMMIT HIDEAWAY"
The Norfolk and Western CPL shows a clear indication for a southbound as a car approaches from teh east on Vaughn Summit Road to help illuminate the scene a... (more)

The former ATSF searchlights still stand tall on the Glorieta and Raton Subs in New Mexico, but not for much longer. There is an active replacement project in effect on the line, which no longer s... (more)

As the blue hour gives way to night, a short 10 car transfer prepares to pull from the BNSF Rices Point yard in Duluth, MN and head over to the BNSF 28th Street yard in Superior, WI. The power fo... (more)

After a day of spotting and switching grain cars around, the switchers of the CHS elevator is Superior are done for the day and tied up and the crews have gone home until they come back and start ... (more)

Flowers begin to grow between slag ballast and rusty 136-pound rails laid by Rio Grande in 1970’s, as nature slowly reclaims what is hers on top of Colorado’s Tennessee Pass on August 12, 2015... (more)

Even though the passage of the last train was 18 years ago, the summit tunnel on Union Pacific’s former Rio Grande line over Colorado’s Tennessee Pass appears in remarkably good shape as seen ... (more)