A bitter cold winter day has caused a rail break on the Wisconsin Central main line entering Shops Yard near the Subway Road grade crossing at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on December 11, 1994. c... (more)

During the last seconds of sunlight, BNSF 7081 grinds up the grade through the tight curves at Daze on the BNSF Phoenix sub in Arizona.

The Storms of the High Plains

Isolated thunderstorms were marching easterly across the High Plains of eastern Colorado on July 29, 2020. The usual parade of westbound coal bu... (more)

A regional train La Spezia Centrale - Levanto just departed from Vernazza, one of the UNESCO World Heritage listed "Cinque Terre" villages. The station is located in a tunnel. The open... (more)

At exactly 9pm on the dot, NS 810 with an ACU leader makes it's way east on the Whitethorne District under a fiery sky and a downpour.

NS 165 heads west through the dawn fog at Oakvale on the Christiansburg District.

A beautiful Colorado sunrise at Barr Lake greets BNSF 6400 (ES44AC) as it pulls a loaded coal train towards Denver, Colorado.

Chico and The Comet

Comet NEOWISE streaks behind one of the ubiquitous Santa Fe Semaphores in New Mexico..

The Storms over Denver & Big Ten

Storms continue to leave heavy rain and hail over the suburbs of Denver and the High Plains. The evening sun brings out a rainbow and is ab... (more)

The first Sylt shuttle of the day from Niebüll to Westerland (Sylt) shortly after sunrise on the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Lübke-Koog near Klanxbüll. The island of Sylt is located in the North Sea off Sch... (more)

Riders on the Storm

In the moments before a violent thunderstorm unleashes its precipitation the clouds take on this dark ominous appearance. Hail stones and large rain dro... (more)

As a large thunderstorm rolls east along the plains of Colorado in the background, BNSF 3933 leads the Denver, CO to Provo, UT manifest up and around Big Ten Curve after overtaking a westbound UP ... (more)

An eastbound BNSF coal train passes through the massive cut at East Stokes, Wyoming, on June 21, 2020. In the spring of 1998, BNSF daylighted Sunset Tunnel, also known as the 1,928-foot Tunnel 2 b... (more)

"Watching Trains at Nassau One Last Time" With news that Long Island Rail Road's Nassau Tower in Mineola closing, several railbuffs, rail employees and others from near and far s... (more)

Sunset is just minutes away as a San Bernadino, California, bound BNSF intermodal reposition train crests the top of Burkes Hill and dips into the sag approaching Milepost 21 in Louisville, Colora... (more)