Once upon a time, the New York Central's mainline from Indianapolis to St. Louis crossed the Wabash River at Terre Haute and embarked upon a roundabout journey across Illinois, visiting such exoti... (more)

A lone CSXT maintenance-of-way worker rides the last car of a welded rail train, keeping an eye on the quarter-mile strings of steel ahead of him. Although harkening back to the days when caboose... (more)

Near the end of a glorious summer day, a westbound CP stack train follows the Thompson River downstream in the CN/CP co-production zone between Ashcroft and Mission/Matsqui.

Just blocks from the Pacific Ocean, an inbound train on the L Taraval line climbs the first of San Francisco's famous hills as the sun drops to the distant horizon.

Deseret Power Railway Units 1, 2 and 3 sweep past acres of sage brush and exposed outcrops at 27 Mile, about halfway between the Utah border and Deseret Power Plant.

One of the few level ar... (more)

The northwest corner of Colorado is easily characterized as rugged; it's a tough place for anything to survive, and as the scrub brush adorning the rocky ridges attests, precipitation is a scarce ... (more)

It took two years of waiting for the opportunity to get back to the summit of Holum Pass, but when I finally was able to set up there once again I couldn't have arranged for better light. Storms ... (more)

Only a few minutes behind the advertised, Amtrak's Adirondack rolls into Albany-Rensselaer Station just ahead of a system which would bring rain later that day. In the distance stands the ... (more)

Late-afternoon sun glints off the "bat wings" on Cascades No. 517's Talgo set as the southbound train traverses a causeway along the shore of Bellingham Bay.

The Deseret Power Railway's Pettibone crane drags freshly-painted DPR 4 into daylight for the first time. Unit 4 sports essentially the same paint scheme as Units 1 & 2, delivered new to the Dese... (more)

Officially in the capable hands of "Engineer Wyrock" (malapropism courtesy the North Branch Dispatcher while issuing the... (more)

The sun has set, but the railroad doesn't shut down for the night. A northbound train shatters the calm of a late-spring evening as it rumbles across the causeway at the mouth of Padden Creek, pa... (more)

An empty Roberts Bank, BC to Spring Creek Mine, MT coal train rumbles across the dappled waters of Ebey Slough at Bridge 38.3 on a gorgeous late-spring morning. The train will soon arrive at Delt... (more)

Red at night / Photographer's delight: One more photo from that incredible moonlit, snowy, magical night in the Cascades two years ago. I find it remarkable how reflections from the icy cr... (more)

Dozens of LRVs are parked for the night inside Muni's sprawling Metro East Maintenance Facility.