SRC #90 rolls into bed after a long hot day on the Road to Paradise.

Blue Hour
S3 to Tharand passing the Felsenkeller brewery at the "Plauenscher Grund"

On a warm evening along the Central Coast, a Union Pacific passenger train descends the horseshoe curve just above San Luis Obispo, California. In the distance, you can see the quiet town of San L... (more)

The evening sun sets behind the San Francisco Peaks along the eastern slope of the Arizona Divide as a Tennessee-bound stack, led by a BNSF ES44C4 locomotive, races out of the sag at Darling. This... (more)

On June 30, the Helena Local got a real late start, not arriving at Townsend until sunset. My friend Dave Gayer and I were returning from Lombard thinking we might get lucky and see the train our ... (more)

Montana Rail Link's Helena Local reaches the top of Winston Hill under threatening skies just after sunset. It will roll past a waiting eastbound empty coke train then continue on to Helena to end... (more)

Montana is big sky country, but not always big sky blue. Thunder clouds and the Montana landscape show the insignificance of the Helena Local in the scheme of things as it climbs Winston Hill with... (more)

Sunset on Metra Milwaukee Service junction of North and West service at Western Avenue Station.

A pair of BNSF locomotives lead a Military move running as W865, eastbound at Clinton, Ohio in beautiful evening light. Trains like this generally run to a military base at Ravenna, Ohio.

While Georgia Railroad crews were hard at work building an outbound train to be taken to Agusta, a quite serious hotbox was spotted on an old Southern Railway gondola which they are seen handling ... (more)

Happy 4th of July from NS' Avondale Yard in North Kansas City! I took these from the parking garage at the North Kansas City Hospital, along with quite a few others, who strangely, seemed less int... (more)

Allentown & Auburn SW 206 tied down for the night as fireworks are set off by the volunteers in celebration of Fourth of July. Now that's 'Merica!

It's blue hour at Greensboro, North Carolina as a westbound Amtrak train departs the Greensboro Station, rolling under a large SafeTran signal cantilever as it makes it's way toward Pomona Yard.