Shooting in Colorado's Animas River Canyon can sometimes be an exercise in futility. The lighting is all sorts of 'wonky' when you're in the earlier parts of the morning and the far canyon wall i... (more)

Reading & Northern 425 steams across the Port Clinton Turntable on its final day of operation.

Train L516 on the Minneapolis Sub is about to get back underway after picking up two units off the siding (CN 2899, CN 2800). A cold December rain mixes with exhaust in a swirl illuminated by the ... (more)

Magical winter scene in Budapest

On the evening of December 3rd, 2023, at sunset, the 99 2322-8 takes the last train of the day to Bad Doberan, along the cliffs between the Baltic Sea resorts of Kühlungsborn and Heiligendamm.

5428 Eric Treacy struggles to move the Moorlander dining train out of Grosmont station on its journey to Pickering. Patrons of the train will have Pullman car comfort, a four course fine dining ex... (more)

Wildfires illuminate the sky in the Shenandoah Valley as Norfolk Southern freight train 14Z heads north across the James River. Wildfires are extremally uncommon in the Valley, making this an extr... (more)

D&RGW #473 and #476 work hard near Elk Park, deep within the Animas River Canyon, bringing their mixed train into the siding on October 16, 2023. Here the D&S sponsored photo special will await th... (more)

D&RGW #473 and #476 hustle through Whitehead Gulch on October 16, 2023 pulling the daily Silverton Mixed. Given the unseasonably warm temperatures in Colorado for the Fall season, peak fall foliag... (more)

The sunrise is still a few minutes away as Pikes Peak starts to get that alpenglow while BNSF 3664 (ET44ACH) leads a coal train downhill towards Greenland, Colorado.

Frisco 1630 receives further instructions via train order hoop as it departs from East Union with a late-night passenger train in tow.

Norfolk and Western 611 thunders up the steep North Mountain grade under threatening skies.

A rainy day look back through time... Amtrak's Chicago bound Southwest Chief No. 4 barrels through Colmor, passing a pair of westbound-facing Santa Fe semaphores under ugly skies. To... (more)

Kansas Prairie Dawn. Just minutes after sunrise, an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe local makes its way across the Kansas prairie east of Abilene, with a few passengers, some small freight item... (more)

BNSF Railway train M-BARLAC1-05A heads west into the setting sun on its way from Barstow CA to Hobart Yard in Los Angeles. BNSF ES44DCs 7718, 7705 and 7738 are up front, with two more ES44DCs, 77... (more)