A rail train for CN's Albreda Sub sits quietly in Jasper Yard while Pyramid Mountain looks on during a gorgeous morning.

BNSF 7541 leads a loaded unit steel coil train up the 2% grade towards Bealville with Bear Mountain looming in the background.

An eastbound BNSF coal load drops down the hill from Bellevue as it rides the roller-coaster Wichita Falls Sub.

Union Pacific's oil train passes a Joshua tree at M.P. 388 at Ansel California, on March 7, 2001.

As a Santa Fe westbound departs the yard in a cloud of exhaust, a short eastbound UP intermodal symbol waits for a signal on the South Track. Valley Junction is now covered by a freeway interchang... (more)

After a long day of chasing the "Valley Girl" across Indiana the last shot of the day was from a new rural road overpass across both the NS and the not yet complete Indiana State Route 25. The ne... (more)

From our vantage point atop the hill just east of the new yard we can see just how close the northern edge of the yard is to the deep sands of the Mojave Wash.

At sundown, BNSF freights meet just west of Mesita.

Rain and color at Mance
A CSX train comprising of auto racks and powered by three former Chessie System (B&O) GP40-2s, curves through Mance Pennsylvania, on a rainy, yet colorful, autum... (more)

A westbound train crosses a bridge near Ottertail.

Two EMUs of DLR (Docklands Light Railway) crossing in Canary Wharf.

"Easy Does It:" As the sun sets, the evening rock runner slowly navigates the curves on the Shenandoah Sub as it prepares to enter the mainline. For my 100th photo, I had to upload ... (more)

Count them: One, Two, Three, Four, FIVE SD45s!!! Here's the only time I ever saw a Rio Grande train with five big SD45s for power. This hotshot westbound is heading through Provo Yard moments befo... (more)

Empties meets loads, a NS empty bottle train pulls into East Chicago as Mittal waits with a loaded train for the NS.

A Chicago and North Western inspection train curves out of Clyman Junction, Wisconsin, in October 1983. C&NW just rebuilt this line from Clyman Junction through Watertown to Jefferson Junction to ... (more)