At the end of a perfect day, a rainbow encircles a Montana Rail Link helper set trundling eastward at Austin, Montana, after helping a BNSF grain train over Mullan Pass on July 5, 2021.

Steamscape: Whitehead Gulch. One of the most challenging, yet spectacular photo locations on the old D&RGW Silverton Line is this little spot at MP 491.95, about 5 miles south of Silverton.... (more)

Monsoon season has been exciting so far this year in Northern Arizona. This past Tuesday, another monsoon storm rolled through Valentine. It produced thunderous skies for most of the evening. As t... (more)

A quartet of Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2s and a cabless GE B30-7A B unit, power westbound unit grain train G05 across Two Medicine Bridge at East Glacier, Montana. The Cascade green train stand... (more)

A late evening eastbound Amtrak Regional Express races past the Cornwells Heights station at sunset, bound for New York and points east.

The electric locomotive 3ES5K-295 is leading an eastbound freight train near Novy Uoyan, BAM (The Baikal–Amur Mainline).

Anticipation: It's a very quiet night in the Deerfield River Valley of western Massachusetts. Other than crickets and the flowing waters of the river, there's not much to be heard. Then, ... (more)

Code Poles and Track Speed
Ed Dickens is on the fireman side for his watchful eye over the Overland Route right of way in western Nebraska. Running track speed near Ogallala, N... (more)

A westbound BNSF intermodal train has gotten a green light from the dispatcher to proceed west after a severe thunderstorm with 65 mph wind gusts has cleared south of Dalies, NM. Mammatus clouds ... (more)

Great Northern E7(A) 503 leads a five car train The Badger, leaving Saint Paul Station for Duluth, Minnesota in July 1961. Photo from my collection, photographer Dick Stoner.

Friendly patrons imbibing in the tasty brews and edible delights of Axemann Brewery in Bellefonte, PA greet a Nittany and Bald Eagle train as it glides by the far shore of Spring Creek.

BNSF 6635 has been given a yellow signal from the dispatcher to slowly proceed west as a severe thunderstorm slowly drifts south out of the Dalies, New Mexico area. The dispatcher held three west... (more)

The California Zephyr arrives at Keenesburg just as Mother Nature provides a spectacular colorful Colorado sunrise.

Below the imposing escarpment of Dodge’s Bluff, Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr traces the Colorado River in spectacular Ruby Canyon just east of Utaline, Colorado, on June 23, 2021.