A stack train winds its way through New Mexico's Abo Canyon. BNSF is currently working on a project to double-track this line.
The Wisconsin & Southern Circus Train crosses a river near Edgerton. Scanned from slide, taken when I was 16.
An eastbound bare-table train skirts the shore of the Columbia River on a sunny late summer morning. Oregon's Mount Hood towers in the distance.
A Metra train from Fox Lake swings onto the Canadian Pacific at Rondout.
One of Amtrak's two "albino" white-logo P42DC's has little trouble working towards track speed as it accelerates away from the Ann Arbor Amtrak station. The wall of buildings in the distance is pa... (more)
All that is steel glows gold as a westbound deadhead move rockets towards Aurora.
A youngster excitedly lines up pennies for No. 112 to stomp when she runs around her train. No. 112 eyes up the situation, but doesn't have much to say.
Dynamic brakes howl as a Union Pacific train squeals through the curves between Tunnel 3 and Tunnel 5 on Tehachapi Pass. The steep grade here is easily visible. It was a refreshing change to find ... (more)
An eastbound train has completed its passage through the Tehachapi Mountains as it sweeps through the reverse curves at Mojave.
Two sets of venerable GP9's sit out a thunderstorm on the east side of Binghamton.
A westbound stack train crosses an industrial area along the Ohio River at rooftop level, as it completes its crossing of the OC Bridge.
A Metra train with a bar car spends the weekend at the Kenosha layover yard. Scanned from a slide, taken when I was 16.
When it rains, it pours, and this muggy June day along the Norfolk Southern is no exception.
In the tradition of the Powhatan Arrow, NS 4270 charges through the rain north of Portsmouth, Ohio.