A Loram rail grinder works its way down the main line at Woodford, CA, taking off the top thin layer of the rail head and leaving a criss-cross diamond pattern there after it passes. The sparks fr... (more)

GaiaMother Tree is a monumental work of art of the brasilian artist Ernesto Neto. This colorful, hand-knotted sculpture made of colorful cotton ribbons extends up to the 20-meter-high ceiling of t... (more)

In the workshop of the Mongolian Railway (MTZ) at Ulaanbaatar.

KY Junction Bessemer and Lake Erie R.R. Greenville, PA

Traditions: A family of passengers waiting for Amtrak's northbound Crescent to arrive, stand amongst the 1910 Southern Railway depot, which is still there to serve its purpose of acc... (more)

Built in 1881 by Italian stonemasons for the Denver, South Park & Pacific Railway as part of the facilities needed for their division point of Como, Colorado. The original six-stall roundhouse eve... (more)

In the RhB's open observation car in a very slow speed across the floating Brückentobel creek at Bärentritt (bears trap) betweeen Davos Wiesen and Davos Monstein. The gap between the Wiesen I tu... (more)

Once a railroad town…
Salida was once a railroad town, where Rio Grande had a large dual gauge yard, two roundhouses, company hospital and many other functions necessary for a busy div... (more)

Today, Colorado’s Minturn yard sits empty, rusty and forlorn. No longer do crews cut in helpers for the arduous climb up the steep 3 percent grades of Tennessee Pass. The sand tower is now gone ... (more)

No trains have passed this way recently!
In early March 2014, a 30-foot boulder came crashing down the mountainside above Minturn, Colorado, just west of milepost 301 on this famous Rio... (more)

Nothing has run on Tennessee Pass lately
Proof can be found looking down the main line just west of milepost 301 on this famous Rio Grande route that Union Pacific stopped operating in ... (more)

Two gentleman converse below the wooden frame Southern Pacific yard tower at Union Pacific’s Sparks yard in Nevada on March 11, 2001.

Ex-ATSF depot at Stafford, KS

Occasionally, track laying still requires a human touch, such as these Union Pacific men adjusting Pandrol clips while putting down the third main line through between North Platte and Gibbon, Neb... (more)