Another chapter ends for Stampede Pass: Just days before BNSF unexpectedly shut down Stampede Pass due to low traffic volume, one of the last westbounds to depart Ellensburg works along the... (more)

Another piece of history vanishes: It may be the dead of winter, but the business of moving the midwest's agricultural products hasn't stopped at the Graham Grain elevator in Terre Haute, ... (more)

Exhaust pours from the stacks of Housatonic Railroad GP35s 3602 and 3600 (the latter having recently been repainted) as they accelerate northbound train NX-13 out of Lee along the line's namesake ... (more)

Late on an absolutely frigid winter evening -- the air temp was 15F and the wind chill was almost zero -- a remarkably clean Warbonnet dodged shadows as it ducked under Fullers Flyover, crossed Fr... (more)

On a gloomy autumn day, a fly fisherman casts for trout on Esopus Creek below Catskill Mountain Railroad's Bridge C-30. This bridge, originally built by the Ulster & Delaware Railroad, is current... (more)

Driving through the Port of Albany one winter morning, I was surprised to find a Sperry Rail Service test car parked at Canadian Pacific's Kenwood Yard. Rising in the background is Albany's uniqu... (more)

A sea of blue: I was only 14 years old in the summer of 1996 and -- at the time -- the dissolution three years later of Conrail, the railroad I had grown up with, was an inconceivable notio... (more)

On this spectacular October day in 2003, the brilliant colors of autumn in Upstate New York couldn't disguise the fact that Canadian Pacific's ex-D&H Albany Main was slowly being reclaimed by natu... (more)

St. Maries River Railroad GP9s 101 and 103 roll downstream along the line's namesake with only a few miles remaining before they rejoin the old Milwaukee Road mainline at St. Maries.

Having departed St. Maries much earlier than usual due to a lack of switching work around town, STMA's Clarkia Logger exits the St. Maries River canyon at Mashburn with three dozen empties bound f... (more)

A quiet morning at Potlatch: With nothing to do while the St. Maries River Railroad crew shuffles around empty log cars nearby, STMA 997 basks in the sun on the Potlatch mill lead. This old warri... (more)

With the first hint of autumn colors beginning to grace the hills of western Virginia, NS 7569 leads three GE sisters and an EMD cousin across Bull Run Viaduct with an empty coal train returning t... (more)

Shortly after a line of late-summer thunderstorms rolled through the Wasatch Range, this westbound loaded coal train thundered out of Helper bound for Long Beach, CA. I first photographed the tra... (more)

Another summer afternoon, another big storm dominating the skies above the Thunder Basin National Grassland. This particular storm actually began its day by tracking south-southeast towards Bill,... (more)

Desolate. No other word better describes Coyote Basin in northeastern Utah; stretching all the way to the aptly-named Seep Ridge in the distance, the only signs of human life are scattered... (more)