Blue hour on Altamont Pass. On the way to Winterail!!

The Manchester Turn out of Dubuque did not have time to make it back to Dubuque. So the train sits on the south siding at Manchester with a extra crew on board. Now the crew will get 3000 tons of ... (more)

High headlight. Normally a nocturnal train, CN 529 is passing through Montreal West during the middle of a snowy afternoon with NS 8979 and UP 8353. While power on this train was usually ex... (more)

BNSF 7064 has been cooling it's heels in Skykomish while a workcrew keeps the Cascade Tunnel in tip top shape. Now after a 4 hour work window has passed and a nearly hour long trip from Skykomish... (more)

A Wisconsin Northern train rolls through a snow encrusted tree tunnel on its way south after switching industry in Chetek. This line is former Omaha (C&NW) and has seen a rebirth due to fracking s... (more)

Under the cover of darkness, A northbound T-Bird train comes around the corner and sees the green signal illuminated at Wolf to keep moving on the way back to the Thunderbird Mine north load out p... (more)

Anticipation
Winter air is laden with moisture and a light fog swirls in the airy blue hour of dusk on January 25, 2013. Stillness of the moment is broken as a distant air horn blowing ... (more)

With a Bronco escort running two miles ahead, this two car UP local runs eastbound through the Feather River Canyon at dusk after just clearing through Pulga

Up and over! The FEC dispatcher has given a green light for the southbound intermodal hotshot train 107 as a Delta IV rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral at 8:59 pm. The dots at the to... (more)

Perdue Farms unloads a 90 car train of corn. To see more of my pictures, visit www.vidivides.com

Southbound 214 rolls past mile 130 of the Temagami Subdivision February 13th, 2014.

Attempting a long exposure shot, seen here, Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief #3 lights up an otherwise pitch black night as it travels through Canyoncito, NM. Running approximately 5 hours behin... (more)

Ascending Elkhorn grade in the final minutes of daylight, a pair of NS C40-9W's drag 100 loads of Appalachian mined coal over the N&W mainline toward Bluefield. Snow and cold temperatures have mad... (more)

A single evening of lowland snow has brought 2-3 inches of the white stuff to the Puget Sound. By the time this military train's crew change was complete at Nisqually, both the light and the snow... (more)

A Patched Southern Pacific AC4400CW Leads a Westbound Intermodal in a Snow Storm through Kirkwood Missouri.