With the shadows growing long on October 20, 2001, two Norfolk Southern locomotives push a "Hill Run" over the curved steel trestle at Garwood, West Virginia, on the 2.07 percent grade t... (more)

As the morning sun hits the big steel trestle at Covel, West Virginia, on October 18, 2003, an eastbound Norfolk Southern coal train thunders up the 2.07 percent grade to Clarks Gap. Two locomotiv... (more)

An eastbound Norfolk Southern coal train crosses the high steel trestle at the former mining community of Micajah, West Virginia, on the drab day of January 4, 2003. Three more locomotives are pus... (more)

Five Norfolk Southern locomotives cross the high steel trestle at the former mining community of Micajah, West Virginia, on the afternoon of October 20, 2001. The engines had just taken the first ... (more)

A Norfolk Southern eastbound "Hill Run" soars over the small town of Covel, West Virginia, as the shadows grow long on a fall afternoon in 2001. This is the second cut of a coal train th... (more)

A Norfolk Southern eastbound "Hill Run" is charging up the grade to Clark's Gap, West Virginia, as the sun sets on a brilliant spring day at Herndon. Four-axle power is rare in the coalf... (more)

On the morning of November 14, 2005, two QJ steam locomotives lead a long westbound freight train around the sweeping curve just east of Lindong on the Jitong Railway. On the previous day, nine of... (more)

Canadian Pacific's Holiday Train waits at control point Wood for permission from the Canadian National dispatcher to continue north along the Mississippi River. The lights of Dubuque, Iowa, shine ... (more)

With Train Festival 2011 just ended, an Iowa Interstate Railroad steam volunteer takes a drink in front no. 7081 in between night hostling duties in Rock Island. In the background is the Centennia... (more)

Iowa Interstate Railroad steam locomotive no. 6988 waits in the Rock Island yard while sister engine no. 7081 clears the track ahead during Train Festival 2011.

Iowa Interstate Railroad's Chinese-built QJ steam locomotive no. 6988 moves through the yard prior to an excursion at Train Festival 2011.

Union Pacific northbound freight train about to enter the Ostrander Tunnel just north of Kelso, Washington, shrouded by bigleaf maple trees at peak fall color. The photo was made while heading hom... (more)

Now that’s a curve! CLD Pacific Grain’s trackmobile pulls four newly-unloaded covered hoppers around the loop track at CLD’s O-Dock on the Willamette River in downtown Portland... (more)

Union Pacific steam locomotive no. 844 leading the eastbound Portland Rose passenger special through Nolin, Oregon, in the Umatilla River Valley between Hinkle and Pendleton. The train is a... (more)

Union Pacific steam locomotive no. 844 leading the westbound Portland Rose passenger special over the John Day River in Oregon's Columbia Gorge. The locomotive and train are en route from C... (more)