Reading 2102 races up to speed at Fork Mountain Road, about 2 miles north of Port Clinton.

The engineer of BLE 904 puts the throttle in the 8th notch and his EMD veterans billow clouds of spent diesel fuel in an effort to accelerate 57 blast furnace trim loads towards Two Harbors.

Thoroughbreds in The Stable. Provenance, pedigree, original, profound. Union Pacific 4014, 844, and 3985, stable mates in the shrine in Cheyenne, WYO.

The Agawa Canyon tour train weaves its way through the fog in a typical fall morning scene along Island Lake. Its journey through the Algoma District to Canyon (MP 114) is just getting underway pa... (more)

Amtrak engine 146 (P42DC) leads the California Zephyr through a curve at Keenesburg, Colorado at dawn.

Thunder claps in the distance from a storm that just slammed Noxon with heavy rain while an eastbound “super train” rolls towards Missoula.

Sunset on the Albany & Eastern. As the early October sun dips below the hills to the west of Tallman, OR, Santa Maria Valley Locomotive #205 brings several loads south out of Albany to the ... (more)

Fall is in the air(and on the ground, in the creeks) as the Bald Knob excursion returns to Cass.

Last light at Tallman. Just minutes before sunset, a local freight highballs toward Lebanon, OR, passing through the tiny hamlet of Tallman, with perhaps 3 miles left to go in its journey.... (more)

Up From Durango…

A near rivet counting perfect re-creation of the 1970s era Silverton train makes its way through Needleton on its way to Silverton on a beautiful October day

Twilight dominates the skies as a pair of GP38s on the midnight yard job in Regina sit idle awaiting their next assignment.

The California Zephyr runs through the signals at Wigging, Colorado at dawn.

Light power to pull Lakehead pulls down the Hole Track while DMIR 408 and two sisters spot empties high above on Dock 6. The sun was out for a cumulative of 15 seconds in the few minutes I was on ... (more)

It's a cold blue hour as NS 26C (Jacksonville,FL-Chicago,IL) start to pick up the pace after getting a diverging-clear signal at Tenbridge to cross over to the adjacent track. Like anything that i... (more)

Coming across the dark desert running along I-40, another stack train is seen headed East into Winslow for a crew change. This line sees close to 90 freight trains a day, but we were happy one of ... (more)