T413 leads the push pull configuration of itself, three BS carriages and P16 along the Ballarat Geelong line at sunset during a 1000km round trip to Kaniva and return to Melbourne using two trains... (more)

Cloudy with a Chance of Thunder!

A tranquil scene complimented with the sound of water falling onto the ground from above precedes the entrance of Reading & Northern's blue Pacific stormi... (more)

UP reposition auto racks twist and roll down the Cuesta Grade.

Steaming and speeding through Burnett at 1/20th in a vintage DM&IR ore jennie with a load of hot taconite pellets bound for the dock in Duluth. Note the leading (right) truck has a spring that is... (more)

Built during the 1920s for a Western Suburbs railway between St James and Town Hall that never came to fruition, this section of abandoned tunnel lies dormant and all-but-forgotten beneath the nor... (more)

Amtrak passes Mance on a clear, December morning.

An eastbound BNSF grain train goes under the new and old signals located on the western end of Rochelle. The former DelMonte Foods distribution center (which frames this photo) is slowly being dem... (more)

Amtrak 71 blasts into DAVIS interlocking doing track speed.

As the sun sets on this section of the former-L&N, southbound manifest Q539 roars up Crooked Hill. The helpers from East Bernstadt are now shoving on the rear, enabling the train to slowly work it... (more)

As the sun sets on a unseasonably warm February evening, Amtrak #11 glides over the Arroyo Hondo trestle as it journeys down the coast toward Santa Barbara.

"ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN"
The streamlined Hudson sits outside the North Machine Shop at the museum and is seen looking in. I imagine with sad puppy dog eyes wondering what it has don... (more)

N&W 1218 steams it up on the Southern Loops during an NHRS excursion. It is now on the top track, will soon be coming on lower track.

"1924"
The builder's plate of ex GN #90 and smokebox shine in the afternoon light as it begins a new life on the Strasburg Railroad. It was purchased by the SRR in 1967 and j... (more)

Led by warbonnet-dressed GE C44-9W No. 775, an eastbound BNSF freight skirts Frog Pond just west of Trout Creek, Montana, on September 22, 2012.

The Apache's Last Stand

I consider myself very fortunate to have had the opportunity to shoot the last great Alco show in the west. Back in May of 2012 I went on an epic week lo... (more)