Union Pacific 6936 leads a mixed manifest up Cima Hill at the Elora siding. In the distance there is snow on the mountains, and the sand dunes and the the town of Kelso, where the UP 6936 picked ... (more)

There are still traces of snow on the ground from the previous weekend's storms, as a Long Island Rail Road EMD DE30AC is caught by the setting sun leading its train out of Long Island City yard t... (more)

As severe storms start to roll in from the mountains, a few rays of sun peak through the clouds over the James River as 212 makes their way north with the New York Central and Penn Central heritag... (more)

With recent rains, the normally docile Feather River has become a streak of whitewater. Waterfalls appear as small creeks cascade a hundred feet down the rocky cliffs of the canyon. This scene is ... (more)

"Thunder on the Nortwestern" For the first time since 2002, Union Pacific brought its mainline steam power back to Chicagoland, and they did it in incredible style. Here, UP 4014 whistles past ... (more)

CSX's #911 (Spirit of our First Responders) leads Q693-03 along with the CSX #1776 (Honoring our Veterans unit) across Boone's Creek trestle near Johnson City, TN.

July 20th marked the debut run for SP 9010 after an 11 year restoration by volunteers at Niles Canyon Railway. Built in March of 1964, this 179 ton engine was one of 44 built by German manufacture... (more)

How times have changed on the C&O... Distributed power is now a common practice on mainline manifests, as freshly rebuilt GE AC44CM No. 7003 is positioned mid-consist for Rocky Mount, NC to... (more)

"May I Never Wake Up from The American Dream" The shot I never saw coming, has found its way to the top of my personal favorites. Wandering between photo scenes, I joined a small grou... (more)

The last of 4 bull elk to cross CN's busy Edson Sub at Henry House just ahead of Q143's train heads to safety, just in time. Now get out of the way, I want to shoot this sweet pair of C40-8s comin... (more)

An original Kodachrome slide from my collection; the photographer was not specified.

Vermont Rail System hosts Canadian Pacific foreign power every summer when ballast trains are loaded at Vermont Railway’s Burlington Yard. On June 28, CP multi-Mark SD40-2 6067 leads dual flag 60... (more)

BNSF remote control job 116 shoves two hoppers into the Rices Point yard while a nice matched pair of ex-Santa Fe GP50s (3183/3181) prepare to depart with a transfer.

Thunderstorms move across the plain as Union Pacific SD70ACe No. 1989 "Rio Grande" leads an eastbound stack train along US-30/287 just east of Medicine Bow, Wyoming, at Como on June 1, 2... (more)

This former Santa Fe F45 is now repainted in Great Northern "Big Sky Blue" and repurposed as a luxury cabin at the Izaak Walton Inn at Essex, MT. The inn itself was built in 1939 by the Great Nort... (more)