Looks like Alaska Railroad GP40-2 3012 is in the shop for a little Alaska TLC. Alaska Railroad has a fully equipped shop that can handle just about everything the railroad can throw at it with the... (more)

Alaska Railroad's unique Hurricane Turn is sitting on its namesake The Hurricane Bridge over Hurricane Gulch. This bridge is 916' long and 296' from the top of the rail to the bottom of the Gulch.... (more)

Well, I made it out of the state of Alaska to chase the Grand Canyon Limited. First stop was here at Sullivan's Curve on Cajon Pass. This was my old stomping grounds as I bought my first house in ... (more)

On Saturday C&TS ran their Steam Spectacular, as this was the first one I had attended, I had to agree it was spectacular. 3 Rio Grande 2-8-2s lug a 24 car freight train towards the summit of Cumb... (more)

On an absolutely stunning Spring morning Alaska Railroad's Coastal Classic rounds Bird Point with the morning train for Seward. The tide is out enabling this view of the train along the shore of T... (more)

The second ski train of the season climbs the front range at Clay, CO. This train is a welcome addition to usual coal and Amtrak trains.

A loaded coal train with a quartet Rio Grande tunnel motors rolls past the siding of Banning on Rio Grande's Sunnyside Branch. Scanned from a Kodachrome slide.

On a snowy Sunday the Union Pacific runs an Officer special to Dalhart, TX over the Joint Line, seen here cresting the Palmer Divide at Palmer Lake, CO While this storm dropped about 12 inches the... (more)

BNSF stack train rolls east having conquered Marias Pass.

An Alaska Railroad Ballast train with 3 Geeps in three paint schemes.

This years winter was a bit more normal for Alaska although it was fairly rare to catch a train after a snowfall. I did on one such occasion manage to follow a train south after a recent snowfall ... (more)

5 Rio Grande units, albeit the third unit is Rio Grande 5399 disguised in SP paint, move a manifest west across Rio Grande's former Denver to Salt Lake City mainline. It was rare to see this many ... (more)

Engineer Bill Bivins gives the photographer a friendly wave on a beautiful fall day. With the sun shining and the colors at peak it was a great day to be with camera in hand.

One week after my previous shot was another stellar day and again I headed out to try a shot of the north freight in a location I have been working on for some time. Still needs a little work but ... (more)

A BNSF coal load crests the summit of the Palmer Divide. From this perspective you can see the many curves used to crest the summit from the south. the dirt trail on the opposite side of the lake ... (more)