Sometimes you need to make your own subject. After failing to find any kind of train action, I had to resort to shooting the crossbucks protecting a rural grade crossing west of Cass Lake as the ... (more)

Late on a warm spring afternoon NS 216 makes good time westbound through rural northern Indiana.

The NS F-units fly across Floyd's Fork just a few miles east of Louisville. The OCS is headed to town in preparation for the festivities surrounding the 138th running of the Kentucky Derby.

Taking the new Nikon D800 out for a test spin today resulted in Vermont Rail System's Bellows Falls Switcher rolling over the namesake falls on a stone arch bridge that technically resides mainly ... (more)

The 2012 Kentucky Derby train is making good time on the run up from Danville as it heads west through Clark Station. With only 25 miles left to go, it won't be long before the special arrives at ... (more)

due to ongoing trackwork on the BNSF Pikes Peak Sub todays southbound BNSF Pikes Peak Local used the normal northbound only main #2 shown departing Larkspur, CO in an area that until recently had ... (more)

Five horsepower vs. 7400. Five ponies have their faces buried in the dry grass and pay no attention to a brand new ES44AC leading an old "Multimark" SD40-2 passing by behind, on a warm Spri... (more)

High plains drifter
After a very early blizzard in October 1997, the eastern plains of Colorado were heavily drifted with snow. Union Pacific found that it needed to call the Cheyenne-b... (more)

D&S 481 takes a breather during the layover at Cascade Canyon

The Interstate heritage unit eases out of the smaller tunnel within Natural Tunnel. The creek that created Natural Tunnel passes thru a smaller naturally-made tunnel in the lower right of the ima... (more)

A man and his dog take a leisurely walk down the tracks on a nice spring afternoon while in the distance the U.P. local switches a small yard on Superior's east side of town.

A low sun glints off our train as it climbs out of the Rio Chubut valley north of El Maiten. A Farrail charter on the Esquel narrow gauge line in southern Argentina.

A BNSF Railway SD70MAC leading a southbound coal train just north of Bill, Wyo., is silhouetted against a beautiful Wyoming sunset.

An eastbound BNSF coal train rolls through Lombard, Montana. A bit of smoke from forest fires to the west contributes to a colorful sunset.

A beautiful morning to be heading south along the Hudson.