The blue hour has settled in over the Clark Fork Valley in far western Montana on the eve of February 4, 2022. Just west of Trout Creek, the lead locomotive of a westbound BNSF manifest freight li... (more)

The fog clouds are moving into Coal Creek Canyon just as the California Zephyr arrives on its way up the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

The sun peaks above the clouds just as the California Zephyr runs through Roggen, Colorado on its way to Denver on the Brush Sub.

Union Pacific 4014...the "Big Boy" quietly rests after traveling across the state of Minnesota, reaching its northernmost destination of Duluth. While there was no formal photoshoot o... (more)

New locomotive Euro 6000 256-006-9 in the head of a southbound steel coils freight.

Evening glint reflects off the side of three big GE motors as they hustle an Oakland, CA to Logistic Park Chicago, IL intermodal train out of Eagle Nest.

It’s late in the day of February 5, 2022, as an eastbound BNSF grain train crosses Bridge 55 over the inlet of Trout Creek into the Clark Fork at Trout Creek, Montana. This location is on Montan... (more)

Working solo, GP60 number 1086 leads a mixed consist of cars southbound below the bluffs of Ozark, AR alongside the Arkansas River late in the day on a warm April 9, 2022.

Empty freight train descending Pajares Pass towards Asturias.

"Into the Sunset"
CEMX GP9 661 runs light back into the Cemex facility in Medley, FL during sunset. The 661 was built in November of 1954 for the Florida East Coast, and is n... (more)

GWR 7029 'Clun Castle' passes Elford with the 1Z70 'White Rose' 0754 Tyseley Steam Trust - York with Class 47 47773 on the rear.

It Lives

The Reading and Northern put former Reading 4-8-4 2102 through its paces on a break-in run between Port Clinton and Tuckerton, Pennsylvania yesterday. I had to work in the... (more)

A southbound Wisconsin Central freight treads as lightly as it can through the front yards of homes lining Division Street in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, on November 18, 1989. Two children head down the s... (more)

Pastureland along Montana Rail Link’s Harrison branch is verdant green on June 22, 2015, as MRL’s 844 local brings three covered hoppers upgrade to the Harrison Elevator Company at the end of ... (more)

On April 6, the former Reading turned Reading & Northern T-1 4-8-4 2102 was taken back out on the mainline for the first time in 31 years. After more than 3 decades of napping, owner Andy Muller ... (more)