NS 8099 heads west at track speed around the big curve at Mesa, WA.

NS 8099 leads the first oil load bound for the new Conoco Phillips Refinery in Ferndale, WA west through the Paha Coulee near Lind, WA on a chilly November morning.

Tough winter day on the Kyle—23
Plow MWK 06 drifted off the right-of-way quite a bit, taking EMD CEFX SD45T-2 No. 9282 with it, derailing trailing sister No. 9245 and leaving former S... (more)

Tough winter day on the Kyle—22
“Whoa,… whoa,… WHOA!,” rings out over the scanner as we pass the Kyle plow extra going through Kanorado, Kansas, on January 2, 2007. I look bac... (more)

Norfolk Southern N&W Heritage unit 8103 leads westbound train 145 solo over Walnut Creek one day after a late fall snowstorm dumped a foot of snow along the shore of Lake Erie.

NKP 526 was built in March 1958 and became N&W 2526 and then NS 1456.

A whitetail doe takes advantage of the train pausing to flag a road crossing by running across the Mineral Range tracks.

1105, 1102 and 1107 race No.5112 cotton train from Narrabri to Port Botany south near Breeza, between Gunnedah and Werris Creek, at sunset.

Rayonier Willamette #2. The early morning fog keeps a relentless hold on the yard at the Mineral Shops as Rayonier Willamette #2 backs onto the main for a day of logging operations in the d... (more)

One of the diesel-electric Blue Pullman sets normally used on the Midland Pullman service from St.Pancras to Manchester found unusual employment forming the 05.45 Preston to Wembley Hill FA Cup Fi... (more)

Norfolk Southern's "Honoring Our Veterans" unit, SD60E number 6920, leads Piedmont Division local train P2N across the White Oak River in Stella, North Carolina. The train is moving mil... (more)

Misty Mineral Morning. In a pea-soup fog so typical of the Pacific Northwest, Hammond Lumber Company #17, a beefy Mikado Saddle Tanker, switches onto the main line at the shops in Mineral, ... (more)

Montana Rail Link GP9 No. 109 peaks through an empty log flat while switching Thompson River Lumber east of Thompson Falls, Montana, on January 20, 2013. The crew is ready to head back to Paradise... (more)