Engine #93 pulls out of the roundhouse - note the fancy ironwork on the lamp post above the diesel fueling station to the left.

Canadian National's L507 exercises trackage rights on WSOR's Milwaukee Subdivision to reach their own West Bend Subdivision at DBR Jct.

Ahh, Townwood. One of my favorite places to just "sit and watch." Even though nearby Leipsic has the added bonus of CSX's Toledo Subdivision, I find this middle-of-nowhere spot to be much more ... (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 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)

CP 8720 heads east towards Calgary. A late winter snow happened over night giving the area a fresh blanket of snow.

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.

Sometimes the best photos can be found right under your nose. It was the warmest day in Anchorage in at least 10 days, today, with a high of -1 degrees! The sky was clear and crisp and the ice c... (more)

A time exposure of the southbound signal at South Romney, Ind., in the last summer of its almost-century-long existence. A full moon paints passing clouds high above.

A pair of electric motor coaches, with another banking at the rear, climb towards Ozpizio Bernina beside the snow covered frozen Lago Bianco with the 10.55 St.Moritiz to Tirano train on a brillian... (more)

As luck would have it, the Southwest Chief is running late. Seen here passing MOW workers clearing switches at Summit on a beautiful snowy December morning.

The 203 leads its train off of the Three Rivers Trestle (which crosses the Holston River just yards away from where the Holston and French Broad converge to form the Tennessee River). The rivers a... (more)

185 211-0 in the near of Rüdesheim under the Castle Ehrenfels.

Winter has arrived, as my frozen feet can attest. A westbound CSX freight crawls past the site of a recent derailment in scenic (but freezing) downtown Kent.