The drone of a distant coal mine conveyor belt is drowned out by the lead locomotive of a westbound empty coal train approaching Hull, west of Iaeger, in the middle of NS's Pocahontas District bet... (more)

Winter Dreamscape

The daily Selkirk to West Springfield manifest is about to emerge from the east portal of the State Line Tunnel on CSXT's Berkshire Subdivision. This is the old ... (more)

The lights of the inbound local train V40 cuts through the fog and continues east for Royal Building Products for a pickup.

A late afternoon intermodal train heads east into the Winslow yard on the BNSF Seligman Sub.

An empty coal train snakes its way alongside the Levisa Fork River south of Pikeville, Kentucky, illuminating the hillside behind the leaning cantilever at FO Cabin on the former C&O between Russ... (more)

The still silence of the eastern Kentucky mountains are broken by the sound of hard-working GEs moving their manifest train through the signals at the aptly named Coal Run Junction.

Southern mikado No. 4501 makes its presence known before entering the east portal of the Missionary Ridge Tunnel as it leads the second to last Summerville Steam Special excursion of 2018.

The manned pusher on Duff Mountain returns to its post at Morley after shoving a southbound up the intense grade, back lighting the classic L&N infrastructure at Chaska on a chilly fall night.

NS 534 lights up the PRR signal bridge in Tipton, PA.

Gold Country Narrow Gauge Railroad. Sumpter Valley's Mikado #19, an oil-burning Alco built in 1920, charges with a westbound freight train on the heritage railroad tracks glinting in the Fall morn... (more)

A Logistic Park stack train slow as they approach Ortho as traffic is at a stand still due to bridge issues at Fort Madison. Westbounds are back to back trying to get out of Fort Madison ahead Amt... (more)

Time for a story.

So, as a railfan and photographer we all have those places we have to see and shoot once in our lives. Those "bucket list" spots that are Meccas for those of ... (more)

The distant headlight of a Union Pacific Auto Rack departs out of Phoenix with some late season October storms forming around the valley. Luckily at the horizon the sun came out in the last minute... (more)