Blowdown at Sunrise

CSX Q606 has met sunset at Henderson Point, Mississippi, as the waves lap up onto the shore from the Gulf of Mexico. Fair weather and following seas dominated the day with the exception of this si... (more)

Heading back to their namesake yard, the Kelly Lake local knocks the snow off while rumbling across the large steel Missabe era trestle along the CN Keenan sub with 6 cars in tow after serving the... (more)

A Christmas Eve snowstorm produced some significant snowfall in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia. My alarm went off at 0300 Saturday morning to drive down and see what kind of shots I could ge... (more)

"Evening red and morning gray, help the traveller on his way." - says the sailor, and indeed the following day was dark and gray with minor wind. But it was a mayor heatwave (15 degrees ... (more)

In the last hour of daylight, BNSF's 25th Anniversary Unit #6075 leads a southbound Vancouver, BC to Portland, OR grain train past Clark's Point in Bellingham, WA on November 11th, 2020.

shortly before Wrapping up the evening at Strasburg Railroad, 90 puts on a dramatic show in her throwback paint scheme, as steam billows into the crisp night air. Lighting for the evening done by ... (more)

Cogwheel double railcars Bhe 4/8 # 3044 and # 3041 of the Gornergratbahn in multiple control are running up the mountain between Riffelalp and Riffelberg, with the mighty Matterhorn as background.... (more)

A bitter cold winter day has caused a rail break on the Wisconsin Central main line entering Shops Yard near the Subway Road grade crossing at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on December 11, 1994. T... (more)

Mixed freight from BNSF's Northtown Yard heads west over Lake Ashtabula on its way to Pasco, Washington. Completed in 1912 by the Great Northern Railway, the Karnak Crossing passes over the Sheyen... (more)

Union Pacific #8207 and Canadian National SD75I #5749 slow down on the approach to the E. siding switch at Bridgeport to check the position of the switch as they head Westbound towards Grand Jct. ... (more)

A Dreamscape View... Next-door to a Nightmare..

The Milky Way rises in the southern sky on the Great Plains of New Mexico. It's a little after Three AM, and we see the classic ... (more)

Trans-Mongolian 2020 and 2021's summer and autumn railfanning photo tours available for booking now. Please join our fantastic photo tours and welcome to the Trans-Mongolian railway! Contact us:... (more)

"Take me back": As the sun continues to rise to the East, a Norfolk & Western J Class locomotive makes haste with a hot shot freight. Norfolk & Western #611 - October 2019