Southbound Q507 streaks through South Deshler under the light of a full moon on Cinco de Mayo.

A sparkling clean SD50F crosses a small creek just North of Baldwin.

The bitter cold can play havoc on track. Here, two Wisconsin Central trackmen fix broken track bolts that were sheared off by the contracting rail in a “pull apart.” A kerosene-soaked rope is ... (more)

Double the lightning bolts, double the horsepower
All 6000 horses are working seamlessly for Q614 as it cruises along at the posted speed limit of 45mph and prepares to rumble into dow... (more)

NJT 4025 cruises toward it's station stop at Elberon with a Bay Head-bound shuttle as the last of the setting sun shines off the nose of the 2004-built PL42AC.

The St. Paul Transfer has just started up Short Line Hill yet they've already gained quite a bit of height as the tracks were once level with the road on the right. They'll continue up the hill p... (more)

An eastbound stack train hold for a red light a Fullerton with people running in and out of the Fullerton Cafe. The northbound train that the stack train was waiting for didn't show up because Met... (more)

Engineer Paul Pleasant rolls a cut of cars through the bustling little town of Kingsland enroute to St Marys under an armed escort.

Two sets of photogenic "Yellowjackets" await their next assignments. Incandescent lighting courtesy of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Kodachrome original.

Thank you BNSF!... People have shot this same Chicago to Stockton stack train since it left out of the yard on the 29th and the power was three Ferromex units only. I kept an eye on the tra... (more)

MEC 256,260,257,406 are about to depart St. J with 36 cars and will soon be making their way over the mountains on the line that passed through Crawford Notch.

The spout hanging down from above rarely, if ever, loads rail cars anymore, but the elevator at Winona, Washington, on the west edge of the Palouse region is still a hub of activity for local farm... (more)

A Maine Central GP-38 263 leads RS-11 801 plus two other GP-38's downgrade out of Crawford Notch in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Train YR-1 originated at St. Johnsbury, VT and is headed f... (more)

Seoul train The Music Cafe train prepares to depart Seoul Station in the late night hours with a specially painted albiet dirty GT26CW-2 on the point. The train is a budget travel tour that... (more)

The clouds roll over the mountains as a short gap in the rain allows me to put down the umbrella as a lone GT26CW-2 leads a unit cement train down this lonely stretch of the Chungbuk Line.