The sun slipped into a small hole lighting up the scene and the storm that had stalled over the area all day made a brilliant backdrop. Montana weather can be challenge to shoot, but very rewardi... (more)

As tornadoes and severe thunderstorms develop just to the east, a northbound UP manifest waits in the siding for a special meet with UP 844 hauling the southbound Cheyenne Frontier Days special ba... (more)

ICE 6440 leads the Minot switch back to town, passing the beautiful red barn near Logan.

A faded SD70MAC and semi-new SD70ACe return empty coal cars back to the mines in Wyoming to be loaded once again with black diamonds for Texas through Tonville, CO.

An NS coal train breaks the still of a hot and humid night along the Tug Fork River.

The waiting game...

Heber Valley Railroad's Provo Canyon Limited rambles through a patch of mustard weed, approaching Wallsburg on July 3, 1993.

When ridership was high, the Heber Creeper would add additional power to Provo Canyon trains to assist the climb from Deer Creek Park to the dam. One of the more unusual doubleheaders I witnessed ... (more)

The foreboding mountains surround Loch Morar loom in the distance as The Jacobite steam train covers the last few miles on its journey to the coastal town of Mallaig on the western highlands line.

Southbound oil loads on the Barstow Sub just south of Colona.

The classic publicity view of the Schynige Platte Bahn (SPB), often used on posters, postcards and in brochures. The Riggenbach system cogwheel mountain railway was opened in 1893 and electrified ... (more)

Here in my viewfinder, I behold a sight that I never thought I would live to see: A scratch-built, 1860s-era American Standard, pulling a passenger excursion in Pennsylvania. Three years a... (more)

The two compositions forming train 642 above Breitlauenen crossing station, which is visible on the left, with Thunersee and Niesen mountain (the pyramid on the left) in the background. Locomotive... (more)

Cogwheel locomotive He 2/2 # 18 from 1910! (former Wengernalpbahn # 58) with open sommer cars B7 (1924) and B3 (1893) is rolling down the mountain from Schynige Platte towards Wilderswil, with Eig... (more)

The York slowly moves through Glen Rock with the afternoon excursion for the day.