The last couple minutes of light make an explosive scene as BNSF 5888 leads a export coal load over Austin Creek. This classic and easily accessed spot is still one of my favorites...

A manifest slowly departs Enola Yard out onto the Rockville Bridge...

An early morning intermodal crosses the Rockville Bridge from Marysville to Rockville on its way to work Harrisburg...

A westbound UP Directors Special was climbing Sherman Hill near Granite, WY on June 15, 1989 with GP40Xs No's. 954 and 955.

Double composition for the train Alvia Madrid-Basque Country.

Green NGG 16 No 88 double-heads with NGG13 No 49 during the annual steam week on Sandstone Estates.

With the company houses and the water tank, Harriman, WY really did give me the feel of an "outpost." On June 15, 1989, a westbound manifest was working upgrade on the Harriman Cutoff with three ... (more)

A colorful consist leads eastbound rock empties near Reno Junction.

Just another GEVO leader on the 497...but what's that? An SD9043MAC trailing? Anything to break up the GE monotony!

CN W904 waits at Peterson on the south track for A417 and P001 to pass before continuing to drop CWR.

At sunset, a brand new ACE leads eastbound BNSF coal empties down the deep cut just north of Reno Junction.

A westbound UP coal load breaks into sunlight as empties recede and another load appears on the far hill.

Westbound on Track 1, a Union Pacific double stack marches over Sherman Hill at Dale, Wyoming, on September 17, 2008.

East on the NS River Line to Asheville, NS 961 parallels the French Broad River transporting the final six remaining EMD SD70ACe heritage locomotives to Spencer from Progress Rail in Muncie.

Here's the Rio Grande I adored as a kid: Six four axle high horsepower EMDs hauling freight through my hometown of Provo. There was a speed restriction through the city limits. Once a train approa... (more)