Pulling hard - a classic scene one never tires of witnessing.

Climbing southwest toward Christiansburg.

Don't you love farce? My fault, I fear. I thought that you'd want what I want; sorry, my dear! But where are the cows? Send in the cows. Don't bother, they're here.

The SB Palmetto exits DC's urban core and heads for the Long Bridge to Virginia and points south. The building in the background is new, modestly altering this scene.

A Copenhagen area commuter DMU train approaches Osterport station, seen through the underpass below Dag Hammarskjolds Alle; the station is at and below the street and platforms stick out in both d... (more)

A Copenhagen area commuter train arrives at Osterport, from which the Little Mermaid (Den lille Havfrue, based on the fairy tale of that name by Hans Christian Andersen), at the harbor pondering l... (more)

At Wolsztyn they water down the ashes as they are dropped! Here dyspozytor (scheduler) Ireneusz "Irek" Tomiak does the honors.

Capitol Limited passing WB through downtown Gaithersburg with the Veterans unit, AMTK 42, trailing. The new construction on the right fills the space of the long-ago wye at Gaithersburg, also bui... (more)

Pushing northbound through the pretty Maryland countryside with Vardo Yard soon to come.

The Capitol Limited passes the Metro Twinbrook station. Hopefully all of the complicated hardware seen on the Metro tracks (lower 2) are being looked at as part of the SafeTrack effort, a series ... (more)

A manifest heads east towards Benning Yard, about to leave ex-PRR rails in favor of ex-B&O rails, having recently left ex-B&O rails. A beautiful day at this location!

An Acela slows down as it eases into its final stop at Washington Union Station. K Tower has been passed by Acelas and their predecessors many, many times, and still witnesses hundreds of movemen... (more)

The wig-wag in Oakdale, CA still stands, apparently still in use (no trains passed while I was there) protecting the E Street crossing on what appears to be the Sierra Northern (but I have since b... (more)

611 passing through horse country in Virginia. Image taken from private property with permission of the owner.

Note: minor plastic piece removed from field digitally.

The 611 eastbound crossing over the bridge in Applewood still labelled for the Southern. While we waited for the train, the property owner came by and placed a flag on his mailbox; reason unknown ... (more)