CTRR's two ex-EJ&E SW-1s reflect nicely along the St. Louis River.

Crossing Bridge 55 west of Trout Creek, Montana, four Oakway SD60s lead an eastbound BNSF coal train from Centralia, Washington, on September 22, 2006. Leading the train on Montana Rail Link’s F... (more)

Sunset on the Minnesota prairie, seen from the top of the Belgrade Co-op elevator as an eastbound CP train rolls through town, slowing for a meet ahead.

Early morning at Pig's Eye yard just outside downtown St. Paul, MN finds a plethora of activity with a few yard jobs working, a BNSF transfer picking up cars and a BNSF oil train heading east.

The sun rises over Bellevue and when it goes higher it changes the colors of the shining rails it touches, here a kind of coppery gold.

It's 5:28 AM and the yard switchers are busy shoving cars through the light fog and up and over the hump.

An Amtrak HHP-8 leads a southbound train over the Susquehanna River Bridge as a new day dawns.

NS #1067 Reading heritage unit leading 55A had to cut off from its train and shove 56G over Copper Ridge by the time they got back to there train the sun was gone, Here we see 55A in Laurel siding... (more)

Another winter night is settling in over the Clark Fork Valley as a BNSF coal train heads west through Trout Creek, Montana. Headlights pierce a low, rolling fog that is beginning to form amid the... (more)

The Great Salt Lake... one of the most beautiful photo places I have visited in my life. At dusk, you can sometimes see two trains following one that's already on the dam. When I first saw the lig... (more)

The black and threatening sky of a hot afternoon has given way to a beautiful sunset, punctuated by a few soft clouds. Straight down the dirt road is the mighty Longs Peak, many miles beyond the n... (more)

Engineer Jeff James gets a switch during a night yard move in Hilsdale.

Four class 10E1 heavy haul electrics speed through Hamelfontein junction into the setting sun, returning empty hoppers from Ermelo to one of the coal mines around Witbank.

Preparing to make one final shove back, an empty coal train led by HESR 2661, an SD40M-2 casts a light on the depot in the distance.

A very late Amtrak Empire Builder #8 wasted no time accelerating out of Edmonds. The engineer was giving a wave at me and blowing by a couple of trespassers at the same time.