The morning Z train out of Seattle races East over the Skykomish River at the Big Eddy

The Sentinels of the Prairies

A sunrise look at the famed 'last semaphore' at MP 706. Now gone, these two signals were the easternmost blades on the Raton Subdivision for year... (more)

A westbound Southern Pacific lumber drag crosses Salt Creek in the Cascade Range of Oregon. During winter, the trestle marks the spot on Oregon Highway 58 where motorists chain up for the crossing... (more)

With the last lights of the day, a empty and a load of sulfuric acid are crossed at the end of the summit pass.

A line of clouds march upriver, following some severe storms that have passed through the Clark Fork Valley just to the east, as an eastbound BNSF grain train follows the same waterway between Her... (more)

CP 8861 leads a unit coal train over the CN bridge at Cisco in the Fraser River Canyon under stormy skies. The bridge in the foreground is the CPR mainline. Since the 1990s, CN and CP have shared... (more)

The "Night Gas" dodges clouds as it heads over the 797-foot Marent Trestle west of Missoula, Montana on their way up Evaro Hill.

The Arlberg Railway (German: Arlbergbahn), which connects the Austrian cities Innsbruck and Bludenz, is Austria's only east-west mountain railway. It is one of the highest standard gauge railways ... (more)

A lone SD40-2 (NS 6088) Local Decatur Alabama unit crosses the causeway over the TN River on its way to Madison Alabama for an industry nightly pickup of cars to bring back to the local Norfolk So... (more)

With rays of light from the afternoon sun , CSX 592 Leads train 58309 with mixed freight , Southbound out of the Eastern end of the Cowan TN tunnel - CSX 544 trailing - 95 empties and 12 loaded ca... (more)

Storm clouds at Roggen, Colorado create the perfect rainbow backdrop for BNSF 5942 (ES44AC) heading east into the storm.

NS 6088 Leads with box cars Northbound across the TN River in Decatur Alabama at sunset. This location sees around 55-60 trains per day

A Norfolk Southern intermodal train heads west through the woods just outside of Cresson. The bridge in the distance carries US Route 22. Using a variable ND filter, I was able to drop the shu... (more)

Ceres Rail Company's class 19D No.3322 and a short authentic South African Railways passangers consist trundle past an orchard on the Prince Alfred Hamlet branchline...

KCS Manifest Freight CXSH from New Orleans to Shreveport, LA, is seen here at sunrise descending the Huey P Long Bridge superstructure into Lobdell, Louisiana. A lucky pick-up of a track warrant f... (more)