The Coast Starlight and the Portland section of the Empire Builder sit side by side at Portland Union Station.

Wild wild west! Tumbleweed, barbed wire, and a passenger train in the distance. The California Zephyr is racing east to its next station stop of Winnemucca where it will return to home rails of th... (more)

Not only is TAG 80 one of the best looking diesels at TVRM, it also has a unique history. The locomotive was one of the first GP38s ever built and served as a demonstrator for EMD before going to ... (more)

Nick Scheresky uses an acetylene torch to cut off a bolt on the frame of one of the Nevada Northern's original wood boxcars. Keeping hundred year old equipment in service is the name of the game a... (more)

Engineer Nick eases the largest locomotive on the Durango and Silverton's roster around the tight cliffs of the legendary High Line.

For the first time in 69 years, Nevada Northern 81 is under steam, pulling a freight train. As we were turning 93 on the wye, I asked my engineer to stop next to 81 to snap a quick picture of the ... (more)

Union Pacific's flanger set has just finished a run over Donner pass and has returned to the Snowfighters home base in Truckee.

Amtrak's California Zephyr splits the Southern Pacific signals as it accelerates out of the resort town of Truckee.

A westbound manifest streaks past the DPU of an eastbound manifest on a pleasant evening.

Just a few yards from where the Eureka and Palisade narrow gauge railroad once ran, a UP manifest thunders across the Humboldt River.

Nevada Northern 109 has just been fired up for some switching, and the 244-D prime mover is trying to warm up in the 20 degree air.

A former Seaboard Coast Line SD40-3 leads two other EMDs past one of the cotton mills in Shorter, Al. As seen from the tufts scattered on the ground, this is a messy operation.

The biggest and smallest diesels on the railroad make quite a pair. The 204 has just had a 92-day inspection completed, and is ready for a bath. The 25 ton GE is used as a shop switcher and makes ... (more)

Alabama State Docks' Genset switchers pull a 100+ car train out of the yard, passing by the Carnival Fantasy. Nobody knew at the time, but this would be one of the last voyages the ship would ever... (more)

The city of Elko was born a railroad town. The Central Pacific and Western Pacific both laid tracks through the heart of downtown, but in the 1980s the tracks were moved outside of town. Luckily a... (more)