Empty coal train blasts through the snow on their way for another load of black diamonds.

A Western Maryland freight makes an early departure out of Cumberland and thunders Westbound through the Narrows towards Frostburg on a blistery cold morning.

Rio Grande’s Creede Local switches the mill at South Fork, Colorado, on the eve of a July 1984 summer day in the far western edge of the San Luis Valley. D&RGW GP30 No. 3010 pauses while spotting ... (more)

Christmas tram 2012

Sierra Railway #3 is just around the bend with headlight ablaze through a cloud of steam. This is approximately 150 yards east of the post office in Sonora.

Steel wheel on steel rail, close up at speed, hand held leaning out and hoping for the best.

Early morning as Sir Cecil A Cochrane raises steam in Marley Hill shed

On the west end of the BP's Du Bois Yard is an old tower from the days where there use to be a diamond between the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway and the Pittsburg and Shawmut Railroad.... (more)

In the Scranton roundhouse, AKA "the barn," Bruce and Kevin were prepping steam locomotive CN 2-8-2 No. 3254 for the days run after repairs the day before. They were using a fork lift to replace t... (more)

End of the night shoot and the fires are disposed off before the locomotives are reversed back into the shed.

Crawling towards Crawford
A Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern freight led by ICE (Iowa, Chicago and Eastern) SD40-2 No. 6432 heads westbound just west of Whitney, Nebraska, at sunset on Jul... (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.

Perfect Storm. This was shot in the middle of a thunder and lighning storm, the rain was absolutely torrential with no protection, this was literally lift camera shoot and hope, I am delighted wit... (more)

With a sunrise that should awaken some sleepy eyes on the early morning commute to Hoboken, train #46 crosses the valley as fog starts to form below.

Captured minutes before sunset, Union Pacific's OANP (Oakland, CA - North Platte, NE) skirts the southern shore of the Great Salt Lake on the former Western Pacific. The thin layer of haze is cour... (more)