An eastbound Santa Fe intermodal train approaches Ludlow, California, on March 8, 1995. A 1966-built SD40 No. 5013 leads the train through a Mojave Desert that has hints of springtime green.

A relatively short but steep hike will get you this unique perspective of Palmer Lake. A northbound has just crested the summit at Palmer Lake while a loaded southbound sits in the Sag waiting for... (more)

A westbound Southern Pacific intermodal train (probably the DVRVF) led by Rio Grande Tunnel Motor No. 5347, cruises by the towering sandstone cliffs east of Utaline, Colorado, on the afternoon of ... (more)

Talgo passenger train Lorca-Alicante-Valencia-Barcelona-Montpellier.

Due to on-going work on the Weston Sub blocking all movements, VIA train 85 detoured up the Newmarket and York/Halton Subs from Parkdale to Halwest. 85 is seen here westbound at Snider.

All is quiet looking west down Main Street in Union, Nebraska, until a southbound Union Pacific passenger train blows through town on September 2, 1995. Union Pacific E9A, built in 1955, is only a... (more)

2TE10U locomotive expects cars with salt on a deadlock way of Baskunchak station. To the south of the lake Mount Bolshoye Bogdo rises to 150 meters above sea level, forming the highest elevation i... (more)

Rio Grande train No. 644 departs Texas Gulf's Potash mine with 26 loads for Grand Junction. While I was never fond of the D&RGW's transition from Aspen Gold to Anschutz Orange, the replacement col... (more)

Leaving the Island of Montreal behind, Montreal Maine & Atlantic #2, exercises trackage rights over Canadian Pacific as it races east toward Farnham with leased locomotives picked up earlier at th... (more)

Two Southern Pacific AC4400CWs lead a Union Pacific coal train out of Tunnel 1 at Plainview, Colorado, on February 8, 1999. The rear of the train can be seen passing Plain siding in the background... (more)

MRL GP35 403, SD45-2 311, & SD40-2XR 263 on MRL's 844 Local, leading a 36 car cut of ballast hoppers westward into Jefferson Canyon towards MRL's Pipestone Quarry on MRL's 5th Sub.

MRL Helpers (MRL SD70ACe 4303; SD40-2XRs 264, 262; SD45-2s 331, & 330) seen here on a five unit helper set hanging onto the middle of a loaded 15,000 ton coal train as it eases down the west side... (more)

A CNW C40-8 and SD60 along with a UP SD40-2 pull a train of gondolas through Dale Junction on Sherman Hill. Snow fences are common on Sherman Hill, placed to control snow drifts.

Crowsnest Pass: An eastbound Canadian Pacific manifest freight rolls down the eastern slope of Crowsnest Pass on the British Columbia - Alberta border. The train is about to enter the commu... (more)

A long hike along frozen Lake Ashtabula gives a good vista of an eastbound Z train crossing the impressive former Great Northern bridge west of Luverne.