A dormant oak tree soaks up the springtime sunshine as boxcars (and a lone tank car) on a Southern Pacific freight march past in the background near Tunnel 1 on Tehachapi Pass at Caliente, Califor... (more)

It's just after 5 o'clock in the evening as a northbound Denver, CO to Great Falls, MT Manifest races into town at around 40 MPH in Longmont, CO next to Front Range Community College.

On a beautiful fall afternoon Reading & Northern's Mountain Job is on its journey back south from Mount Carmel Junction to Tamaqua after a day of switching the various customers along R&N's Mahano... (more)

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A southbound SBVR freight train is switching the feed mill at Moorefield, WV on Oct. 23, 2012.

Marching through the desert
A Santa Fe westbound passes a Joshua tree west of Jimgrey, California, on March 7, 1996. Even though the railroad is now officially BNSF at this date, it’s... (more)

A hint of steam rises from the Chippewa River as a trio of SD9043MACs lead the Proviso to South Saint Paul train west just before sunrise.

The DPU's on a Barstow bound manifest push upgrade toward tunnel 5 on a beautiful spring day.

Narrow gauge 99 5901 seen with its passenger train shortly before reaching the station Sternhaus Ramberg on the Selketalbahn. Taken on a Farrail photo charter.

A peaceful evening on the Armbruster Farm is momentarily disturbed by the passing of N990, a coal train loaded in the Powder River Basin.

A rainy fall day in the mountains of Southwest Virginia finds an empty CSX coal train rolling westbound through Gate City enroute to the coalfields of Eastern Kentucky.

It's already a hot and humid morning as the turn out of Chester makes its way back home after dropping it's train of interchange cars at Richburg for the local switch crew. Seeing the L&C agai... (more)

The Illinois Terminal heritage unit pilots 16E east through the village of Stryker, and past the depot that once saw daily service from New York Central passenger trains.

The Nitrin Job heads south through Cordova.

The Apache Railway's Holbrook turn is seen after departing Snowflake, Az on it's northbound trip with 42 cars in tow.