Y201 on the former Cumbo Yard A track which is now used to access and switch out Quad Graphics near Martinsburg, WV. Taken in 2011 from an old wood and steel bridge which was torn down in 2013.

As the sun goes behind the mountains a eastbound Union Pacific manifest chugs up the 1% grade to the summit in Mescal, AZ

NECR 610 switches C.C. Lounsbury, lighting up the rails ahead.

Steam from JBS's meat packing plant blows over the tracks as UP AC4400CW-CTE No. 5921 leads the Denver, Colorado to Cheyenne, Wyoming manifest through the city of Greeley, Colorado on February 8, ... (more)

Head end of the westbound SLPCTAC122E, just moving through the 674' long Gaynor tunnel. 2½ miles uphill from here is the East Portal of the 8 mile long Cascade Tunnel. RWS and I snowshoed into ... (more)

The sound of five Electro Motive Division diesels, topping out at 20,000 horsepower, rock the walls of the 7,369-foot long Tunnel 26 as UP 4685's headlights illuminate the final few hundred feet a... (more)

The former Baltimore and Ohio Valley Line, from Harpers Ferry to Strasburg passes along the floor of the Shenandoah. In Charles Town the line crosses the former Norfolk and Western at grade and is... (more)

Two former SP Tunnel Motors lead the eastbound Kyle Railroad train from Limon into the town of Burlington, Colorado along the former Rock Island on December 12, 2016.

I wonder how many thousands of trains have passed through these tunnel portals since 1902? A CSX freight enters Fort Montgomery tunnel as it makes its way up the Hudson River valley towards Selkir... (more)

Well after sunset, a westbound BNSF manifest from Denver, Colorado to Provo, Utah knocks down the signals protecting the east end of East Portal siding along UP's Moffat Route on December 23, 2016... (more)

The power for A746 continues to sit idle near the CSX office in the small town of Notasugla this evening. R678, on the other hand, is steadily moving behind them as they bring their train of mixe... (more)

Westbound NS 121 in the distance as sun rays pierce the fog at CP Danes, 3 miles east of Logansport, IN during the morning of 9/23/14.

Santa is coming...Merry Christmas!

NS 198 holds off all the crossing in downtown Sylacauga, Alabama as a signal maintainer works to get a track light fixed up the line a few miles. This Southern search light signal has seen many a ... (more)

NS 8101 leads 121 through the early morning fog of the central Indiana countryside.