At first glance, this train appears to be a caboose hop crossing the St. Maries River. Coupled behind the caboose are 35 center-beam cars that were picked up at the Union Pacific interchange and a... (more)

An amazingly clean and bright AC4400 is bringing up the rear of an empty southbound coal train. [Edit] A re-paint after being used in the movie "Unstoppable" (Thanks Ivan.)

The 475 (disguised as the 382 for a Pete Lerro photo freight) dusts the snow-covered Amish farmland with a nice coat of cinders.

Photo taken with permission.

An early snow storm coats the fall foilage with a fresh blanket of snow as an eastbound loaded coal train eases into the 2.2% grade of The Slide.

A museum piece. Red signals barely visible against the red Eastern Washington sky. For the engineer of BNSF 7531, reds, blues, and blacks are broken from the light of an oncoming manifest w... (more)

As the morning fog begins to lift, the westbound Z train climbs the grade out of Coldstream Canyon at Andover.

Foggy morning in Bavaria! The P8 38 3156 is waiting the departure signal to open in a small station between Mühldorf and Traunstein

Twice a day at the museum a demonstration is given of turning a steam locomotive on a turntable. This has fallen to 790 'Hardwicke' for some time and it is seen here as it rotates around in the ce... (more)

C&O 614 charges through the New River Gorge during a March snow storm in 1985.

Jake's place. A pleasant morning in Germany's Harz mountains with a recreation of a dimunitive DR freight train. And my thanks to Jake Birkinshaw for leading us to this spot.

Series 500 "NOZOMI" running under very hard rain. It runs at about 160MPH so making a great splash.

A loaded grain trains eases down Marias Pass after an early season snow the night before.

To me at least...the monsoon season in the desert southwest, makes the summer season something to look forward to. Here just east of the downtown Kingman area, near its airport...you can see some ... (more)

With the sun setting behind the Wasatch Mountains, Union Pacific's daily Denver-Salt Lake freight crosses from main 1 to main 2 at West Summit. UP MOW forces had recently dumped new ballast throug... (more)