Life in the clouds - it's well into the evening's golden hour and the shoreline appears to be floating in the clouds as the tail end of 104 curves around the calm waters of sprawling Houghton Lake... (more)

A hardworking 119 disrupts the tranquil evening scene at Drefal with the day's chorus of wildlife settling in and slowly giving way to nocturnal activity. Meanwhile, the high heat and humidity bui... (more)

Westbound stacks thunder along Houghton Lake bathing in summer evening light at Drefal as the sounds of rumbling GEs echo off the rugged northern Ontario landscape. The calm waters of the Hogsback... (more)

Biscotasi & the Great Beyond - VIA's #186 speeds east across the Lake Biscotasi causeway after dropping paddlers and anglers at the flagstop here minutes before. Biscotasi is interconnected with a... (more)

Flagstop Bisco - VIA's remote flagstop passenger service gets waved down for a pick-up at Biscotasing taking riders east from just about anywhere between White River and Sudbury on a hot summer af... (more)

A pair of veteran GEs power 421 west through Drefal splitting the calm waters of Houghton Lake in the early morning hours, hot on the heels of 101. In the background, this portion of Houghton Lake... (more)

Happy Canada Day - At ironically 07:01 on 07/01, hotshot intermodal 101 charges west by the remote Salisbury Lake between Sinker and Drefal deep in the wilds of pristine northern Ontario, and righ... (more)

The sun is just cresting the tall granite bluffs at Stralak as 118 skirts picturesque Straight Lake, really struggling up the grade at a crawl speed. This is a shot I've wanted to get for years af... (more)

Transcon stacks snake along Lake Superior's north shore on an early winter morning, shot from an angle I was finally able to get after scouting for a long time. Just around the corner is the locat... (more)

The ice has left Mink Harbour while the snow blanketing the rock cuts and crevices recedes after a couple consecutive days of sun, despite the mercury still hovering around zero while this early m... (more)

Curves, cuts, and cliffs at Cavers - high above the right-of-way the nascent snow melt atop the bluffs has frozen again overnight, giving it the look of a wax-laden candle base. Meanwhile, the ice... (more)

A late winter's morning on Lake Superior (a crystal clear day with no fog and weather one could only dream about) has eastbound 106 all strung out along Cavers Bay, winding towards its first of tw... (more)

Livin' on the edge. A beautiful winter's morning on the north shore of Lake Superior welcomes 100's train with its 10,000+ft of stacks in tow, winding around picturesque Mink Harbour. They'll have... (more)

"200 Miles of Engineering Impossibilities" Mink Harbour is the perfect illustration of what Van Horne was attempting to describe with his famous quote about the difficulties of building... (more)

Fading evening light paints the scene on the Colorado River around Burns as a BNSF westbound rumbles through reverberating off the canyon walls, eclipsing the peaceful harmony of rushing water and... (more)