Kansas City Southern's Holiday Express speeds across the wooden trestle at Crew Lake near Start, LA nearing its next stop at Monroe.

Fireman Mark Lomison shovels coal into CNJ 113's firebox to keep pressure up on a cool May night.

NS 310 over the Genesee Arch with the Northern Lights

Reading 2102 accelerates across the Port Clinton Turntable as it heads for Tamaqua on a test run.

Golden Hour Empress The much-awaited return of steam to North Dakota was met with a phenomenal show from the whole CPKC crew. At golden hour, the CP Empress steam locomotive... (more)

5692 hauls Q102 Eastbound At Ruby Creek Under The Pink Mountains.

With around 3 feet of snowfall overnight, the southbound Amtrak Vermonter was the first train operating over the New England Central Palmer Subdivision on Sunday, March 24. Led by Phase II Herita... (more)

All of a sudden heavy clouds start rolling in and then the sun pokes through the clouds only to light up the train. Lasted about ten seconds. A trio of GE power heads a loaded coal train west thro... (more)

Lighting Stripes, Big City. On the evening of Tuesday, February 20, 2024, MTA Metro-North Railroad Train 855 was flying up the Park Avenue viaduct as it approached the Harlem-125 Street Sta... (more)

On the afternoon of February 5, 2022, an eastbound BNSF grain train crosses the inlet of Trout Creek into the Clark Fork while traversing Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision main line through... (more)

Clawing under storm’s edge
We were on Peru Hill west of Green River, Wyoming, on the afternoon of June 22, 2023, when the nice weather began to change as thunderstorms moved in from t... (more)

Sunrise #1 of a multi dawn wake up call for me to catch the California Zephyr with some vibrant colors!

Early spring weather rolls eastward from the Medicine Bow Mountain Range and streams over Wyoming’s Sherman Hill with gray clouds on March 25, 2008. A momentary and serendipitous break in the cl... (more)

The sights and sounds of a summer thunderstorm have been silenced by the powerful roar of EMD and GE prime movers as they grind away on wet steel rail. Over 17,000 tons of North Antelope Mine coal... (more)

In the early 1960s, The Rio Grande hired Morrison-Knudsen to build a branchline from Brendel, Utah to a potash mine South of Moab. The 35.77-mile line was completed in 1963. The scenery on the lin... (more)