K-28 Class 473 runs light engine through the canyon back to Durango, seen here passing the waterfall and water spout at Tank Creek.

After holding for a southbound coal train at Eldridge, the two warbonnet-painted BNSF motors pickup speed as they pass through a flash of light in Glen Allen, Ala. The BN hopper helped bring this ... (more)

Kansas City Southern broke out the varnish Saturday in a deadhead run from Shreveport, La. to Meridian, Miss. seen here crossing the Mississippi River in Vicksburg. Canadian Pacific officials will... (more)

Cumbres & Toltec's morning departure out of Chama makes its assault on Cumbres Pass seen through this Photoshop composite to display the elevation changes the train makes.

Southern Railway GP30 2594 pops its head out of the East portal of Missionary Ridge Tunnel with TVRM train 100, the "Missionary Ridge Local", bound for Grand Junction Station. 2594 is leased from ... (more)

The first run of the Southwest Chief from Chicago after a brief cancellation due to a BNSF derailment in Williams, AZ wastes no time leaving Las Vegas, NM behind. Note the Santa Fe inscriptions st... (more)

NS 137 (Columbus, GA - Irondale, AL) charges out of the Coosa Mountain Tunnel along the NS P-Line (former CofG). On point is NS 8102 painted up for the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Curving up and around the privately owned and man-made Shalona Lake just south of Rockwood is train 463 with K-28 473 and K-37 493 leading the final push up to their station stop.

As the sun rises, an eastbound stack train slides over Gassman Coulee outside Minot as an ACe pushes on the rear.

Riding in the cupola of the 0540 caboose as the first mixed train with a mid train helper to traverse the Silverton Branch since 1958 meet the sight of Pigeon and Turret Peaks on their way northbo... (more)

Farmrail/Grainbelt's "Weatherford Turn" weaves its way through a maze of windmills and across the rural Oklahoma landscape with one car bound for Weatherford from Clinton.

How high? 238 feet to be exact. That's how high above the Animas River train 261 finds itself with the last coal burner, 481, taking point.

A rebuilt SD60 highballs a work train south to Meridian, Miss. from Irondale, Ala. seen passing through Coaling, Ala. and some scrap metal that littered the right of way.

After working Westrock Paper and Two Rivers Lumber, NS local A36 moseys back into Demopolis with lone high hood 5036 as power as they cross over the runoff of the Black Warrior River.

One of the last Wisconsin Central painted locomotives, WC 3018, works the former Illinois Central yard in Fulton under a setting sun and a blanket of snow.