Winters Last Gasp

Near the very end of March Southcentral Alaska got hit with its last good snow dump of the winter season. Nearly a foot fell in some places and the fresh afternoon... (more)

Dreams Do Come True

Sometimes its better to be lucky than good. This was my first trip to Donner Pass, a place I'd dreamt of seeing ever since I was young child, and I get to shoot ... (more)

Locomotive leased from MRCE

IC 2085 "Nebelhorn" from Augsburg Hbf to Oberstdorf with carriages coming from Hamburg-Altona

Train from Munich to Oberstdorf in the Bavarian Alps

CP 252 is passing through Ticonderoga, NY with four EMD standard cabs. An SD60, GP20C-ECO, GP38-2 and another SD60 make a great power consist.

Marooned in Port Henry overnight as the unfolding April Fools Day snowstorm made roads impassable, I watched from my parked car as this scene took shape across rte. 9N. When I heard 252 cross th... (more)

Snow problem at all... VTR SD70M-2 431 moves some snow that was piled at a private crossing on the Bellows Falls Subdivision at Baileys Mills, VT on April 1. The train made light work of the hea... (more)

A pair of SD40E helpers on the rear of NS 25Z rolls westbound into the cut at Ardara, PA. The helpers will be removed from the rear a few miles ahead at Pitcairn and wait to shove the next eastbou... (more)

An April 1 heavy snowfall left a foot or more of the fresh white stuff on the eastern slopes of the Green Mountains. Vermont Rail System train 263x - the Saturday Slurry - is seen eastbound out o... (more)

Railcars ABe 4/4 # 52 and 51 are running as train 4653 from St.Moritz to Poschiavo, entering Ospizio Bernina in the "blue hour" with snow fall.

Train 1621 from St.Moritz to Poschiavo is entering Ospizio Bernina, highest station of the Rhaetian Railway network, on 2256 meter a.s.l. "Allegra" railcar ABe 8/12 # 3506 with publicity... (more)

With train M302 stalled on the Albreda Sub hill, empty grain train G834 was able to sneak by on the much steeper Robson Sub. Normally this line only sees westbound traffic.

CN ES44AC 2953 leads train G843 west on the Albreda Sub between Fitzwilliam and Grant Brook. The first 103 cars on the train are brand new Parrish and Heimbecker grain cars. Behind them was ES44AC... (more)