Smokey diesel. (CNJ 113 0-6-0 is smoking it up)

Pipeline in the morning
Fog rolling off the Clark Fork dissipates into the warmth of a rising sun and swirls around Montana Rail Link’s westbound day gas local arriving at Pipeline at ... (more)

Since 2001 (15 trips or so) I have tried to get that famous glint shot at Winslow with no luck...timing just never worked out. On this day it was steady clouds with some heavy rain bursts until t... (more)

Golden rays of sunshine have just started shining through the trees as the sound of a train approaching from the east echoes through the damp, cold woods near the north shore of Lake Pend Oreille.... (more)

Sometimes you just get lucky. The snow fleet as it is known on the Alaska Railroad consists of Jordan Spreaders pushed by Geeps. Called to head south to clear the line between Portage and Seward, ... (more)

The Alaska Railroad work train has just set out 3 cars for the B&B gang that will soon start building a new bridge over Indian Creek. With that chore done they head back north with 3006 leading in... (more)

Sunset at Fox Lake. Just a minute or two of daylight remains as a local SOO Line Freight runs eastbound across the causeway just south of Fox Lake, Wisconsin. The power this evening is the... (more)

BNSF 6185 rushes east along the Columbia River below the Rock Island dam with a Z train. The train had three GEs up front and two DPUs. The location is near the west switch of Albus siding, which ... (more)

Santa is coming...Merry Christmas!

Before she was famous, and the last operating Rio Grande tunnel motor, 5371 earns her keep as she leads a freight across the Utah desert in the setting sun. Sure do miss taking trips to photograph... (more)

Norfolk Southern train 591 hustles west on the former Pennsylvania Railroad Middle Division, passing the formerPennsy signals at MP198 just as the sun peaks over the hillside in Mill Creek, PA and... (more)

I love this time of the year when the atmospheric conditions form ground fog or mist which enhances the sunrise. This morning NS 35N waits at CP Danes to proceed west after NS local D96 clears Log... (more)

Montana Rail Link's Laurel to Missoula manifest freight streaks through Lombard, Montana during an awesome light show courtesy of Mother Nature. I'm standing on the abutment of the old Milwaukee R... (more)

The sun sets over Del Mar beach as a Coaster train pushes south.