A Union Pacific MOW worker cuts a piece of stick rail just outside the Altoona yard so that the new welded rail can be spliced in for the night before work resumes again the next day.

Although there is a fireworks display in progress in downtown Richmond at 9:30PM, this pair of CSX engines at ACCA Yard prepare to weather the approaching fireworks from mother nature. July 2011.

Red, White, and Blue...and Yellow. Fireworks get shot into the sky from Lake Altoona over Union Pacific's yard in Altoona, Wisconsin where a GP40-2 and a GP60 rest.

A firework from the city celebration pops as Q501's leader illuminates the cantilever at FC Tower. Leading the train was an HLCX SD40-2, recently re-activated for service on CSX due to power short... (more)

Happy Independence Day!! Just prior to Memorial day, UP 844 cools its wheels in Kansas City, while a fireworks show for the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra lights up the night sky in the background... (more)

A thunderstorm in the C&O coalfields.. Displaying a stop signal at Indian, a bolt of lighting from an approaching storm cell lights up the night time sky.

Fire, rain and lightning... While waiting to board, the skies opened up, a precursor to the day. It was unfortunately, my only lightning shot of the day. (30 sec, f2.8, ISO 200)

With a thunderstorm building to the south, a pair of high hoods idle nose to nose on the head end of an NS rock train.

E-8 number 6900 rests at the roundhouse durring a violent thunderstorm durring the night photo shoot at Spencer Shops.

Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum volunteer Bob Hassett does a little "work" on the CERM's 0-4-0T #10. The museum hosted a local camera club for a private night shoot on May 14, 2011. The stea... (more)

Grinding eastbound at Pence Springs..

A once common scene in Western countries, now only to be seen in China: regular, every-day steam shunting at the Beitai steel mill. Here SY1561, built at the Tangshan locomotive factory in 1987 (!... (more)

Grady Smith tack welds the inside of the new water tank for the Climax locomotive at Cass, WV. The tank will hold 2,500 gallons of water.

Every year the city of Anchorage hosts a two week long celebration called Fur Rendezvous...or Rondy as it's known. This is a winter carnival and the city's biggest celebration of the year. The f... (more)

Thunderstorms in February.. A premature spring thunderstorm shakes the Kanawha Valley as eastbound coal empties zip through downtown St. Albans.