"Normally" Two Harbors consists are flipped every day, lead up one day, trail the next. After seeing the #403 lead on Sunday, I held out no hope of shooting her today. But lo and behold for some r... (more)

Illinois Railway Museum's Chicago Burington & Quincy Nebraska Zephyr, running as Amtrak Train #972 highballs out of Quincy on the BNSF Brookfield Sub. starting its way back to Chicago Union Statio... (more)

In April of 1983, the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad yard and the small town of Thistle, Utah became victims of of a landslide which dammed the Spanish Fork River. Residents of the small tow... (more)

Three BM&LP GE E60C electrics have westbound coal loads in tow near Cow Springs, Ariz. en route to the power generation station at Page.

At appropriately named Joshua siding two UP Century DD40Xs almost have a westbound over Cima summit in California Mojave Desert between Las Vegas and Barstow.

Super Fleet Warbonnet
Built in May, 1992, the four month old nose of Santa Fe C40-8W No. 834 at Raton, New Mexico is still pretty spotless and only has a few bug splats on September 18,... (more)

Coal train and cottonwoods
A BNSF coal train passes Barr Lake, Colorado, with the water level being slightly higher than normal on this almost spring day of March 15, 2011.

I took a trip to explore the Bakken Oil Fields in western North Dakota.... (more)

Photographer Ken Patton takes us to the back roads of New Hampshire where a track removal train is busy ripping up vintage rails. Track lifting had already advanced west of Newport NH yard, hence ... (more)

The conductor of a Rio Grande freight offers the photographer a friendly wave as his train heads east through the Green River Desert near Thompson. Afternoon storms are brewing over the La Salle M... (more)

An extra Pan Am crew rolls the WJED-09 light power south with the B&M Heritage GP9 77 (actually still ST 77 by reporting marks) over the Sugar River Trestle in Claremont, NH on Sunday, September 9... (more)

With Fall quickly approaching, this again will be a very common scene here in Wisconsin during the Whitetail Deer gun hunting season.

With a quad of newly rebuilt MPI SD40s at the helm, a Utah Railway coal load heads west through Spanish Fork Canyon approaching the twin Thistle Tunnels.

During its final weeks of service, the Rio Grande Zephyr's lengthy train consists were a sight to behold. Pictured on April, 3, 1983, a 10 car #18 heads east toward Soldier Summit amid a dusting o... (more)

A fiery sunset ends the day in Western Wisconsin near Gilman as the cows head to the barn to be milked as a priority container train heads towards Chicago.