While waiting for QAJT to finish shifting Reynolds in Hometown, JTPN pauses in the golden forest alongside Lake Hauto.

The thunderous sound of NS #4135 and #1079 in notch 8 fills the valley outside of Elkhorn, WV on January 16, 2021. The mountains are so steep in this location all of the sound from loaded eastboun... (more)

CSX Q606 has met sunset at Henderson Point, Mississippi, as the waves lap up onto the shore from the Gulf of Mexico. Fair weather and following seas dominated the day with the exception of this si... (more)

Almost 4 years after the UP/SP merger, no much has changed on Beaumont Hill in this scene A UP C44-9W leads a UP manifest under the searchlight signal bridge in Ordway, CA. The lead unit would be ... (more)

Morning run. An intermodal train slows for a crew change at Altoona in preparation for its climb up to Horseshoe curve. Deadlines always fascinate me for some reason, especially when they are fi... (more)

Union Pacific was testing Electro-Motive Diesel’s SD70ACes on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision west of Denver, Colorado, on August 26, 2013. UP’s mobile laboratory car No. UPP 210 is bracketed by... (more)

Another night, another visitor... CN’s GTW heritage locomotive rumbles past the (1895) Lake Zurich Train Station on a cold winter night.

Christmas Night

Soviet-built 4-8-4 P36-0147 is met by festive crowds as it arrives in the small town of Shuya with a 3-car holiday special on January 7, the night of Ru... (more)

A total of five EMDs lead the TP&W manifest road train out of Eureka, Illinois with the Rime Ice holding on strong creating a great Wintery scene.

The sun is slowly sinking into the western horizon and reflects off the rails and approaching eastbound Union Pacific freight at West Rawlins, Wyoming, on a brilliant February 8, 2007.

WMSR 1309 is doing some testing around the shop complex in Ridgeley, WV. 1309 was dressed up in C&O lettering thanks to Trains Magazine. After these runs, 1309 was winterized and put away for some... (more)

BNSF 5033 leads a southbound Vancouver, BC to Vancouver, WA manifest out of Tunnel 21 in Bellingham, WA on December 20th, 2020.

New Hope Railroad engine 40 blasts through the deer park section of its excursion in the still of night.

East bound freight at Steventon with the Bridge of the Gods in the distance