Orange Blossom Cannonball during the last weekend of operation.

A harnessed Amtrak employee stands atop an ACS-64, changing the HVAC filter at the Ivy City Maintenance Facility.

A hippo soaks up the little bit of winter sun offered between the sheets of clouds outside Washington Union Station.

FEC 101 slides through the Golf Course in Daytona Beach.

15055 is at the front of a loaded ore train approaching Loop 5 where it will stop to cross an empty train heading north.

Ceres Rail train heading back to Cape Town in the afternoon just before Hermon here.

An empty ore train heads back to the mines north of Velddrif here in the late afternoon.

A quirky fisheye view of Old Saybrook, Connecticut - showing an approaching train, the old freight house, and the current station.

A pair of new GP33ECO's sit idle for the weekend.

An over-under of the F train and an old BMT subway car, which was out for a special excursion for the weekend, and now heading back to the yard as sunset approaches.

The one thing that always captures my interest about Chicago is the complete maze of tracks you'll find there - here a Metra train weaves its way through said maze, and past the 16th Street Tower.

The Willis née Sears Tower dominates the view of Chicago, as seen from Amtrak's railyard in the city.

Climb on up! Amtrak's yard in Chicago is always a photogenic spot.

Amtrak's Pennsylvanian approaches the Harrisburg station, with Norfolk Southern's GI8 yard visible in the background.

Sometimes, I think that the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways looks like steamy, dreamy fairytale land - complete with castle up on the mountain top. In reality, this is Wernigerode, Germany, where the c... (more)