The sounds of GE locomotives slowly grinding up the grade grow louder and louder on a warm August night in Valentine, AZ. Soon, the headlights of an eastbound train appear and illuminate a silhoue... (more)

Through the fog at the dusk... Local time 4-00 AM. Backwoods of central Russia at the north of wooded and swampy Tver region. 2TE116UD diesel locomotive with passenger train "Sain... (more)

The deformed, twisted, kinked rails of the Napoleon, Defiance & Western Railway wait for the next train, which will not be for a while, as the train visible on the horizon has derailed, a victim o... (more)

I love this time of the year when the atmospheric conditions form ground fog or mist which enhances the sunrise. This morning NS 35N waits at CP Danes to proceed west after NS local D96 clears Log... (more)

Train 187 rumbles through Coosa Tunnel as fog from overnight rain lingers inside.

Three Union Pacific coal trains converge on Logan Hill, Wyoming, after sunset at 9:00 p.m. on July 2, 2016. On the right are DPUs of a load that has crested the hill and is headed south. On the ne... (more)

As a light rain falls, ATN southbound train Z390 is about to exit the west portal of Hardwick Tunnel just outside Odenville, Alabama. This was actually a test shot as the lightning conditions were... (more)

With the thick marine layer still shrouding Chorro and the San Luis Obispo Valley UP 7619 peaks around the curve leading to the 'little horseshoe', catching the first rays of the morning.

After meeting a northbound coal empty and getting a new track warrant to head south from Longs Peak, BNSF ES44C4 No. 6718 leads the Cheyenne, Wyoming to Denver, Colorado manifest through the count... (more)

On a dreary evening a BNSF eastbound freight waits in the siding at Winston for the 840 local to pass. Powering today's local is the last running SD45 on the roster #382.

As the morning sunlight begins to illuminate the Colorado Plateau, two BNSF intermodal trains can be seen battling the 1.5 percent grade. The first train, a Kansas City, KS to Port of Long Beach, ... (more)

With the smell of smoke exiting our chimney fills the air, I set up in our front yard for an eastbound train; wherever it may be. The temperature was hovering around 45 degrees that night, so I sa... (more)

Amtrak 470 pushes its train past BNSF 5481 as the trains cross Hayden Island. The signals are about a mile away from the photographer.