All was absolutely still and overnight mists still lingered. At 0700 the sun was yet to rise in Jingpeng valley. A rising crescendo of sound from an unseen source was building until - finally, th... (more)

East bound double stack receives the last ray of sunlight as it navigates the curves at Ludlow.

Nothing quite evoked the word 'atmosphere' as much as when the great wooden barn doors were opened for us at Huludao MPD to reveal this glorious sight. The soft sighing of locomotives in light ste... (more)

Pere Marquette #1225 leads a hot shot early morning westbound freight just before sunrise under a dramatic Michigan sky. Taken nearly four years back, this is one engine and a fine crew that I mi... (more)

Late fall along the Connecticut River Valley finds a normally lush, green landscape rather brown and barren. The leaves have largely departed from the trees and even though its not quite 3... (more)

In the days when I used fil. Cochrane heads up to Andrews House with last train of the day

The 491 heads west toward Glenwood, MN as the sky catches fire from a chilly, late fall sunrise.

Hogback- CP trains 801 and 280 meet at speed on a hogback east of Columbus Wisconsin, on the CP Watertown sub.. 801 is an empty train of BNBX coke hoppers, powered by a pair of INRD 90mac's, heade... (more)

Abandoned and forlorn along the southern shore of the Great Salt Lake, a former Salt Lake Garfield & Western interurban car rusts away along the briny waters of the lake, some 15 miles west of dow... (more)

The classical double departure of two steam trains from Alexisbad has been recreated during Bernd Seiler's tour to the Harz last winter. On the right, 99 5901 is storming up towards Harzgerode. On... (more)

The Railjet is a high speed train of the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB), which was introduced with the timetable change of 2008–2009. The railjet is the premier service of the ÖBB and operate... (more)

With fog laying in the valley of Meadow Creek, eastbound NF&G empties arrive at W.E. Meadow Creek from Russell, eastbound on CSX's New River Subdivision.

Not very often you see lightning, stars, and the moon in one photo. As a storm rolls east over Regina, the skies begin to clear behind and the moon starts to take over the night sky. Stony Beach i... (more)

A parting shot from a June 2010 trip to Mullan Pass. A severe thunderstorm rages over Winston as this west bound coal load hustles a few miles east of Helena.