An eastbound/southbound BNSF manifest loops the "loop" on its winding way up the mountain. A warbonnet leads with two distributed power units pushing. A CD with over 70 high-resolution aerials wi... (more)
Sunrise on the Colorado Plateau greets a westbound Z as it climbs the Arizona Divide with a manifest on it's block on the BNSF Seligman Subdivision.
A SB BNSF freight heads to Texas across central Oklahoma. Big thanks to Bart Y. for helping make this shot possible with his aerial prowess.
With the low evening sun dropping into the San Joaquin Valley haze, the Rio Grande heritage SD70ACe rolls downhill through Cliff with a westbound manifest. Following this train over the pass on th... (more)
Two units lead a double stack Eastbound through the Feather River Canyon, bound for Marion, AR, in the depths around Poe. With doublestack traffic now on Donner Pass, a scene like this is quite ra... (more)
An early morning move has two units easily handling an empty coal train returning to the Helper Yard.
A quartet of SD40T-2 tunnel motor helpers returns to Minturn after helping a train over the pass. Here they follow the Eagle river that flows through the pass. At this time the SP was purchased by... (more)
A Trona bound coal train rolls through Saltdale on Union Pacific's Lone Pine Branch shortly before beginning the climb for the last 20 miles to Searles, and the junction with the Trona Railway.
A loaded coal drag crosses the Potomac River from West Virginia into Maryland as the sun wins the battle the morning fog.
Western Maryland Carl Franz photo Freight at it crosses over the Potomac River in some really serious pea soup thick fog. Photo taken from high atop Wills Mountain
Montana Rail Link's "Day Gas" turn has just started its return journey to Missoula as it rolls along the Clark Fork River near Thompson Falls, MT.
Even with more traditional lighting, this angle looked like something from another world.
The eastbound Capitol Limited makes it's first stop at Harpers Ferry Station, as viewed from Maryland Heights.
A shot I've always wanted to get... A train snaking its way through Tunnels 10 and 11 deep in the Feather River Canyon. UP 4168 has that honor of being the train in the shot, here just East of Poe... (more)
