Montana Rail Link's 844 Local is westbound near Whitehall, Montana, on October 1, 2013. The local serves Whitehall on the Fifth Subdivision as needed, with the hopper behind the locomotive to be s... (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)

Waiting out the long, cold winter. Used to move hoppers of rock in the warmer months, this GP9 ( ex-UP 224 ) sits quietly on the property of Laurentian Aggregates with some of the other equipment ... (more)

MRL 127 leads the Paradise Local arrives on the east side of Thompson Falls, Montana to switch the lumber mill. MRL crews had just finished shoveling out the switches. With e recent snow, wind and... (more)

A late No. 8 will become even later as it eases to a stop at East Browning where it would wait nearly an hour for two westbound trains. BNSF had eight trains dead and tied down between Nyack and P... (more)

CN 4132 sits idling in front of Huntsville Station, awaiting the beginning of the day's duties.

Three GE's lead this Tacoma, WA to Omaha, NE stack train that is seen leaving the city of Boulder. The Valmont Power Plant can be seen in the background.

In the quietest moments of a winter storm, fire and ice converge in the tangled trackwork at Metra's busiest interlocking in the Chicagoland area.

A Union Pacific coal train arcs through Big 10 Curve on the afternoon of June 9, 2013. In the foreground are two AC4400CWs being used as rear DPUs going through Eisele, Colorado. Directly below is... (more)

Ample springtime rainfall bring out the wildflowers among green grasses on the Front Range mountains in the foreground as a westbound Union Pacific coal empty departs Rocky, Colorado, after meetin... (more)

Amid wet, rain-soaked autumn foliage, an eastbound CSX freight curves through Mance, Pennsylvania, on October 22, 1988. Four of the six locomotives in the consist still wear the colors of Chessie ... (more)

During a beautiful autumn morning in Pennsylvania, Amtrak train No. 40, the Broadway Limited, glides downgrade through Horseshoe Curve west of Altoona on October 23, 1988.

WSOR 4010, 4007, and 4001 lead the Horicon to Chicago train out of Janesville on a snowy, cold, and windy day. Very nice matched set of SD40-2's. Sad that WATCO lets them get so dirty though.

Just like days of the old, a pair of EJ&E SD38-2's are seen barking down the old J Illinois River Line with cars for East Morris, IL. I happened upon some nice orange foliage to compliment the J's... (more)

A loaded ore train eases through the siding at Highland for a meet after a nice frosting of the trees.