Having just crossed into Southern Colorado, Amtrak's Southwest Chief catches the last few rays of sunshine as it negotiates the tight twists and turns of Raton Pass. At over 7,500' above sea level... (more)

Departing Alloy yard limits and crossing the Kanawha River at Deepwater, NS-rebuilt GE AC44C6M No. 4181 leads over 12,000 tons of West Virginia coal into the Virginian's Deepwater Tunnel. It's an ... (more)

Mixt-Train

Columbus and Chattahoochee Railroad's afternoon "Brickyard" job eases down 9th Street in Columbus,GA, enroute to serve several customers on the Alabama side of the river.

A quartet of GP9's shunting at Grand Forks.

RJ Corman operates former C&O branches in the New River Gorge as their RJCV West Virginia Line, and they began their day at dawn by taking 100 mty hoppers up the 2.5% grade towards the Contura Ene... (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)

Norfolk & Western 475 heads up the grade towards Carpenters Crossing with a "Hands on the Throttle" participant.

"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

Milan-La Spezia intercity just left Rapallo on it's way south along the Ligurian coast.

On September 21, 2015, Canadian Pacific AC4400CW No. 9620 leads a westbound Union Pacific grain train across the huge bridge spanning the Snake River at Joso, Washington.

On the ninth day of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation rail blockade in Ontario - a day after CN announced it would "shut down its Eastern Canada network" - a handful of trains took the scenic route ov... (more)

Sunrise at Scales. Just moments after the sun crested the hills to the east, a V&T freight charges north past Scales on its morning run to Gold Hill, and ultimately, the mining town of Virg... (more)

The riders of the California Zephyr are presented with a magical winter wonderland as the previous night's heavy snow blankets the trees and flatirons of Eldorado Mountain.

A BNSF oil train rumbles along the basalt cliffs above Crater Lake on the climb out of the Columbia River basin between Trinidad and Quincy, Washington, on September 21, 2016.