This heavily loaded eastbound ballast train is just crawling up the 1 percent grade on a nice winter afternoon in the Sonoran Desert. Even had some "Kodachrome Skies" for this one!

An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe intermodal train crosses the third bridge from the west end of the canyon on a tangent, and curves into the heart of Abo on May 21, 1999. Two other trains... (more)

BNSF 4337 leads a westbound manifest train under the wooden trestle at the west end of the Trinidad Loop. Fellow railfan Robert Scott can be seen returning from his shot on the left. My shadow can... (more)

Spring is in the air in Southern Ohio as a pair of HLCX SD40-2's lead an eastbound train of brand new empty coal hoppers down the Northern Sub past a C&O era cantilever that stands on borrowed tim... (more)

On 9/13/12, a TEPCO empty coal train passes the red rock formations at Escalante Jct on its trip east up the Lee Ranch Sub towards El Segundo Mine.

A Utah Railway coal empty rambles east through rugged desert scenery approaching the Wildcat loadout near Helper, Utah.

Despite how remote Afton Canyon looks, don't let the photos fool you. This shot is only about 6 miles as the crow flies from the nearest I-15 exit. Believe it or not, on a holiday weekend anyways,... (more)

An eastbound Santa Fe freight curves through the heart of Crozier Canyon east of Valentine, Arizona, on March 6, 1996.

EB CSX T225 a loaded coal train is creating a wake of coal dust as it makes its way under one of the few remaining ex-C&O cantilever signals at Lee Hall, Va.

With plenty of horsepower, UP 79 proceeds east through California's Afton Canyon between Yermo and Kelso with two DD35As, one DD35B and a GE U50C.

A BNSF eastbound is dwarfed by huge sedimentary layers along the Transcon at Mesita.

Two fast-moving BNSF trains converge on the railroad’s double-track transcon in Crozier Canyon, Ariz. The BNSF is only in its first year of existence, but the motive power is all Santa Fe.

The "Super Moon" hides behind a mass of clouds passing over the C&O cantilever at the "Eighty-eight Crossovers."

More red cliff and ex-ATSF warbonnets as this eastbound grain empty passes through Thoreau,NM 12/26/11.

Offering a unique perspective of the New River Gorge, the eastbound Collis P. Huntington New River Train snakes through the 'Narrows' of the New River Gorge near Cotton Hill, passing the secluded ... (more)