It's a cloudy Saturday morning with fog still hanging tough on the mountains of northeast Alabama and this ATN Grain Train has just come to an unexpected stop less than a mile from their destinati... (more)

A quartet of Tunnel Motors lead an eastbound Southern Pacific freight as it departs San Luis Obispo with California's Coast Range mountains (and a vineyard) for a backdrop. The power is SP SD40T-... (more)

A pair of SD70ACe's lead the Montana Rail Link's Day Gas job as it makes the eastbound return trip with empty tank cars from Thompson Falls to Missoula. The train is following the Flathead River o... (more)

The Biltmore signal bridge in Asheville became another victim of Hurricane Helene this week, as workers took down the classic Southern cantilever mast. On May 9, 2020, it guided 135 into the Ashe... (more)

CSX Office Car Special P001-06 crosses the Catskill Trestle with at the time, newly painted F40 engines CSX1/CSX2.

With the "Conrail" heritage unit leading and cherry blossoms in full bloom, M421 heads south on some of the southernmost mainline trackage on the former Conrail system.

DRGW in the Royal Gorge Deep in the Royal Gorge, Rock N Rail with UP 1989 on the lead. Made for a delightful morning in the canyon.

Here is another catch of an eastbound hopper train navigating the tunnel district on the former LA&SL, now Union Pacific's Caliente Sub. After passing through Rainbow Canyon and the Meadow Valley ... (more)

The Royal Gorge passenger train has reactivated their EMD F7a and F7b units. Here they pass a fisherman as the train moves to the western most area of the passenger line.

As the morning sun pokes through the clouds, a UP manifest winds its way through the Tehachapi Loop as it heads northbound toward Bakersfield.

As the sun sets across Cajon Pass, a BNSF container train glides down grade as it passes a loaded UP coal train at the Mormon Rocks.

College Coal: BB12 leads Buckingham Branch local Z631 westbound over the Main Street Bridge in Charlottesville, Virginia, as the train drops off some coal cars for the University of Virginia coal... (more)

The WW102 prepares to depart Gore in the midst of an ice storm. That day was one of the roughest days on my camera equipment ever but still glad I did it. A little over a year later the sand min... (more)

Cass Scenic Railroad Shay 5 uncouples from its passenger train in Durbin during a snowstorm on a cold January day.

A C&O train consisting of GP7's and 9's pulls a coal train through the Allegheny mountains of West Virginia. Photo by R. Malinoski.