It's going to be a hot and humid August day and as the sun rises, it hits the cool valley air beneath Moodna Trestle and creates flash fog that lasts about 15 minutes. During this brief period, th... (more)

A pair of SD40s have brought an empty train up from the dock in Duluth.

The N or the Q train goes back to the City to bring another load of tired workers back home under a for-real salmon colored sky in Sunnyside Queens New York.

An eastbound grain train glints the evening’s sunset as the train snakes along the Clark Fork between Thompson Falls and Eddy, Montana, on September 22, 2006. Like a golden spider web, a slide f... (more)

21Z slow down to 30 mph for the Bay Bridge over the Sandusky Bay east of Port Clinton. Sandusky Bay is in the southwest corner of Lake Erie between Port Clinton and Sandusky.

ACELA, the fastest train in America flies over a lowly New York City subway N train at Ditmars Station in Astoria Queens. Lowly it is until you remember the N train and it's kin carry 5 million pe... (more)

During the sunset of yet another workday, the F train huffs and puffs into Brooklyn's Smith and 9th Station, which at 87', is the tallest on the whole New York City transit system.

Crossing Moodna Viaduct under threatening skies, this westbound train heads towards Port Jervis.

A short remnant of the meter-gauge Ferrocarril Transandino, which once ran over the Andes between Chile and Argentina, lives on under FEPASA. Although the steeper rack-and-pinion segments further ... (more)

Southern Pacific 2-6-0 No. 1744 leads Deer Creek Scenic's Santa Claus Express through an icy landscape at Deer Creek Dam near Wallsburg. The 1744 was built by Baldwin for the SP in November 1901.

Silence in the desert
At sunset, the rails at Thompson Hill are silent. An eastbound coal train is entering Thompson siding for a meet a couple miles away. Another coal train is slithe... (more)

On the Kersey Branch in East La Salle, Local 7 pauses for a few minutes after tieing down the cut of cars they shoved back from the UP Main onto the branch next to an old farm shed.

Canadian Pacific 8822 charges through the fresh snow and under the old C&NW steel truss bridge near the Fort McCoy Military area. Military police will stop and talk to you or ask you to leave anyt... (more)

A Santa Fe westbound intermodal waits on part of the balloon track while a set of light power leaves the diesel service area and heads east to pick up its train.