It's often tough to get good pix while on a family vacation, but the Izaak Walton Inn perhaps offers an exception. Here between Red Bus tours and lake boat rides I found time for a morning trip o... (more)

The Glacier Discovery works north after passing the Girdwood Passenger station. Moments earlier a rainbow filled the Girdwood Valley but now dark storm clouds are shrouding the Chugach Mountains ... (more)

With a train of empty ore cars QNS&L 416 and a C44-9W working their way to Labrador City. Not seen on the picture is midtrain helper 402 a C40-8M.

Qinghai-Tibet railway has a lenght of 1.142 km (710 miles). General Electric, Pennsylvania in USA, has delivered 78 dieselunits type C38AChe. A GE-engineer is still in Tibet to monitor the GE-loco... (more)

The mountains of Tibet, where a new railway was opened in july 2006. This train is headed for Chengdu, 3.360 km and 46 hours away. The highest point on the Tibet line is at 16.640 feet (5.072 m) -... (more)

Morant's curve from the other direction. It will be more than an hour before the sun, shining on the high peaks, makes it into the valley.

After a 2 hour wait with no trains, the last light of day sees an empty garbage train heading West along the Columbia River

Two new locomotives head west.

We waited for three hours on this hillside overlooking Shed 10 on Donner Pass before any trains arrived.

Del Mar Racetrack is off to the left. Canon PowerShot G2, 250@f8.0, ~160mm

Early morning fog obscures the ocean to the right. Canon PowerShot G2, 200@f5.6 (ISO 50), 105mm