Montana Rail Link's "Day Gas" winds along the Flathead River at daybreak.

Trains are the most environmentally-friendly means of transportation!

The bag of sand is about to get it as a shop employee loads sand in Vermont Railway 307 in White River Junction, Vermont.

The Trifecta! Amtrak, Norfolk Southern, and the Cleveland RTA all converge on the lakefront.

An eastbound freight grinds its way up out of the Columbia River valley and through the reverse curves at Trinidad.

I thought that this was a sharp paint scheme for a sharp locomotive ... definitely outclassed the railroad that owned it, which is probably why they traded it for a rusty GP9. This was the only ti... (more)

Having crossed the trestle in the foreground, Amtrak's northbound Coast Starlight climbs up the mountains outside San Luis Obispo.

MNRX 504 leads a westbound commuter train out of the station in Minneapolis. Work continues on new signal and track installations in the area, as another test train dwells in the station. Service ... (more)

The setting sun lights up powerful storm clouds over downtown Pittsburgh, as CSX's local rolls along the Ohio River.

The hand-carved logo in the cab floor of Southern Pacific Daylight 4449 is a testament to the care and attention to detail paid by Doyle McCormack and his crew.

After being told that there were to be "Absolutely no photos of the train, none whatsoever" by the security guards at the power plant, we still managed to find the Escalante-Western and shoot it f... (more)

An eastbound baretable train rumbles through a cut in the rocks along the Columbia River. Not much lives in this region of the country, but this is fire ant territory, as we found out the hard way... (more)

Typically bad shortline track leaves both Maumee & Western No. 3 and a hopper car leaning in different directions. Scanned from a slide.

Time has not been kind to Clinton Terminal's main motive power. A pink elephant, perhaps?