The night hostler pauses for a moment between SP 4449 and NKP 765 to enjoy his cigar.

Shortly after sunrise, a mixed freight train on the Jitong Railway heads west out of Chabuga, Inner Mongolia, with a single QJ locomotive leading about 30 cars. Regular steam operations ended less... (more)

A fireman on the Huanan Narrow Gauge Coal Railway trims coal in the tender of C2-class 0-8-0 no. 168 during a stop at Xiahua Station. Xiahua, 12 miles east of Huanan, is a common meeting point for... (more)

The first light of day arrives to lighten the valley, the tracks and the mind of this railroader/photographer to the world that he see's in his own eyes, waiting for the first daylight train to fi... (more)

The Forth Bridge at night. The streak of light on the bridge is an Aberdeen-London service. The bridge connects Scotland's capital Edinburgh with Fife, and acts as a major artery connecting the no... (more)

The southbound Coastal Classic passenger train skirts the Turnagain Arm at Indian Siding, 26 miles into its 114 mile journey to the south end of the Alaska RR at Seward. The P-30 power car ... (more)

Running along the tramway in Central District in the evening with its dark coffee tram body advertisement.

Westbound Norfolk Southern mixed freight crossing the mouth of the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, as blue dusk falls on a gray winter day and seagulls search for food.

A westbound CSX empty hopper train crosses Pleasant Creek, seven miles out of Grafton, West Virginia, en route to the Brooks Run mine on the Cowen Subdivision, while clouds streak by in the moonli... (more)

At the peak of a winter sunrise, a CSX 150-car empty hopper train heads west over the New River at Ansted, West Virginia, as seen from the overlook at Hawks Nest State Park.

Just after sun rise 6988 and 7081 charge eastward in some morning fog as they pull a record freight towards Rock Island.

Jake's place. A pleasant morning in Germany's Harz mountains with a recreation of a dimunitive DR freight train. And my thanks to Jake Birkinshaw for leading us to this spot.

Spring has come! Cherry trees are in full blossom along the Shiroishi river on this weekend. Class ED75 can be seen only on weekends in this area as all the regular trains have been replaced by EH... (more)

Good morning Pittsburgh. Ballast loads North across the OC Bridge

Salt Flat Sunrise- There is nothing like a sunrise in the desert, here a WB UP coal train on the former WP rolls across the Bonneville Salt Flats at dawn, breaking the funeral silence of the great... (more)