Fall colors return to Loup Creek... A pair of R.J. Corman tunnel motors are at a crawl of less than 1 MPH as they pull 10 loads of export coal out of the Pax loadout, uphill toward Mount Ho... (more)

Loaded coal for Brice, NC pulls from a stop at the South end of Towers siding in the Breaks Interstate Gorge on the route of the former Clinchfield. A very brief pocket of light opened up just in ... (more)

A pair of former CSX/Seaboard SD50s RBMN 5019 and 5021 lead a manifest train about to enter the tunnel at Tamaqua on a foggy, misty afternoon.

Amtrak #4 running 2 hours behind schedule roars through Darling AZ after a winter storm

BNSF 8150 leads a EB intermodal train through Flagstaff AZ after a huge winter storm

Union Pacific "Big Boy" #4014 rolls across a small bridge just west of Byers, CO on a cold November 25th, 2019.

A massive 123 with 146 cars, mid train DPUs and manned power on the rear begins its descent down the southern loops on its way from Asheville to Linwood, NC. The first few cars have just exited Bu... (more)

The orange trio that has once again roamed the rails of the Bessemer and Lake Erie have just crossed Kimbles Viaduct as darkness consumes Northwestern Pennsylvania just outside of Mercer, PA.

A short UP manifest climbs up the lower Tehachapi foothills and through the curves of Allard, catching the winter afternoon sun poking in and out of a patchy cloud sky.

"Dreadnought"

UP's ICIG1 intermodal train runs through layers of shadow and light on its eastbound run through the Mojave Desert. I was convinced that the train would pass this composition while the shadows wer... (more)

Good Morning Big Boy No. 4014... Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 and 4-8-4 No. 844 double-head west across the Overland Route near Granger at sunrise on May 6, 2019.

Snow swirls off of Stratford to Kitchener tonnage as CN train no. 568 traverses the frozen landscape near Baden, Ontario under a fiery orange glow.

A heavy grain train hits Yampai hill right as the sun begins to rise.

The drone of a distant coal mine conveyor belt is drowned out by the lead locomotive of a westbound empty coal train approaching Hull, west of Iaeger, in the middle of NS's Pocahontas District bet... (more)