Alleghany Ascents: AMTK 331, a new charger, leads the eastbound Cardinal out of the Alleghany Tunnel, as it passes a loaded coal train on track one on the left side of the frame. The elevation of... (more)

Sitting alone outside Von Storch.

A NS rebuilt GE AC44C6M, #40442, leads a Barstow-bound military train though Kingman Canyon as it descends down the steeper (1.8% grade) Main Track #1.

Beamish museum's annual Wheels of Industry weeked and guest engine in the colliery yard is Sir Berkeley. With the colliery buildungs at the back, a train of chaldron wagons are propelled through s... (more)

On a crystal clear evening in downtown Chicago, Metra’s Chicago Burlington & Quincy commemorative locomotive head ends an outbound rush trainset. Seen here from the Roosevelt Rd bridge.

A Willow Springs, IL to San Bernardino, CA Z3 passes the Z-LACWSP1 as they both negotiate the tight curves of Crozier Canyon. Spring rain showers have brought out some hint of greenery to Arizona'... (more)

CN 8952 leads CN Q116 though East Lansing Michigan heading to Moterm in Detroit, and after that CN Flat Rock Yard. About 55 minutes after this photo was taken 8952 would strike a down tree on the ... (more)

Powered by five Canadian Pacific EMD SD40-2s is CP’s wayfreight that operates between Golden and Cranbrook, British Columbia, is running southbound just south of Wasa on July 15, 2011.

The previous Cast Armor crew didn't make it home to Michigan Avenue Yard, so IHB SW1500 #1502 was sitting pretty on this sunny Saturday morning. A crew would show up not long into the future.

For two consecutive weekends the Welded Rail Train dropped rail on the mainline between Calverton and Manorville. When crews weren't working, the train was laid up on the Calverton Spur which is t... (more)

The Carolinian departs the station at Selma behind a clean P42. The train is coming off of the NS NC Line and onto the CSX South End Sub.

The UP's Cane Creek branch is an amazing piece of engineering, carved out amongst the deep red rocks of southern Utah. A nice surprise on my first time shooting the branch was a former Western Pac... (more)

After letting presumably unhappy passengers disembark in Chicago after arriving near 8 hours late, the City of New Orleans train-set heads for the BN wye to spin, so it can be prepped for 59 later... (more)

On a sunny Saturday morning in Dolton, the Bottle train slowly rolls east on the CSX Barr Subdivision, preparing to hop onto the IHB Main at the switch up ahead. The bottles are bound for Clevelan... (more)

A patch of sunlight illuminates an empty coal train as the Portage de Sioux power plant provides a fitting background.