The sounds of GE prime movers echoes off the walls within Big Hormady Cut as the Cowan pusher shoves heavy mixed freight train Q580 up the nearly three percent grade at Tantallon. Big Hormady Cut ... (more)

A southbound BNSF manifest freight makes its way through a darkening Wind River Canyon between Dornick and Piper, Wyoming, as the sun sets on October 8, 2020. The train will soon cross the river a... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific stack train, led be EMD SD70ACe-T4 No. 3054, departs Green River, Wyoming, and begins its climb of Peru Hill on September 27, 2020.

CSX northbound mixed freight Q692 glides across the scenic Pool Point trestle on their way NB into the yard at Shelby, Ky, a few miles up the road. Three CSX Ge products lead the short 3000 foot l... (more)

Wings on the Overland Route

Westbound at track speed a matched set of clean near new EMD’s charge my vantage point at the base of the “Great Pink Panther” just east of Da... (more)

The 2nd H-GALBAR of the morning passes through Kingman Canyon with a couple older Dash 9s for power.

Finger Lakes Railway train HW-2 has a pair of GE B23-7s as it creeps across the trestle high above Glenora Falls along Seneca Lake as the fall colors start to reach their peak. Photo was taken on ... (more)

Goshawk Ridge & The Spirit

Sunday October, 4 the Spirit 1943 special led the Manifest from Grand Junction to North Yard out of T7 (tunnel 7). Made for a long ride for the crew... (more)

Northbound loaded FMG iron ore train passing through Solomon Junction. This is where the line out to Kings/Firetail branches off. The 2nd unit is a former Union Pacific SD9043MAC that was heavi... (more)

A set of Rio Grande power moves toward the enginehouse at Helper, Utah, on the afternoon of August 6, 1996. Rio Grande had a total of 73 EMD SD40T-2 Tunnel Motors bought between 1974 and 1980. Aft... (more)

Extra loaded autorack train L211 prepares to enter one of the large cuts on the South side of Cumberland Mountain. With all the rain we received over the winter many of the areas natural springs w... (more)

Last Light on the Sherman Granite

A slow moving Z train is moving past the Great Pink Panther moments after sunset near Sherman Hill. A truly southwest sunset, purples, reds, ... (more)

The arched masonry Varda viaduct was constructed between 1907 and 1912 to bridge the deep canyon of Çakıt Deresi, with a height of 99 metres at its centremost point and a length of 172 metre... (more)

Passing through quintessential desert scenery beneath the Book Cliffs, Union Pacific LJP45 “dirt train” local approaches the junction to the Green River Subdivision main line at Mounds, Utah, ... (more)

Red Rocks

Completely disconnected from the thought that there would be a train on this day, I found the Potash Local making its journey to its namesake completely on accident t... (more)