Sunrise at McMinville, OR greets The Mac Switcher and Willamette & Pacific #1801 as its seen gathering a cut of cars at Cascade Steel on the north side of town.

FWRRHS Vice President Kelly Lynch shows off his NKP timetable to the owner of a fine 1940 Hudson with the Nickel Plate 765 behind.

At 8:00 p.m. on the eve of May 30, 1992, Santa Fe’s 2nd 198 train flies westbound just west of Leeds, Illinois, led by a Super Fleet EMD GP60M silhouetted by the setting sun.

After a crew swap in Chicago, CSXs office car special high-tails south, seen here ripping through Cedar Lake on some former Monon trackage.

The California Zephyr 5 train runs through a golden Barr Lake in Brighton, Colorado

On the way to Winterail, we spotted UP's Woodland Local parked near I-5 about halfway between West Sacramento and Woodland. The crew was having dinner at the Elkhorn Saloon as a crop duster worked... (more)

Snowy Peak. In a notable contrast of landscapes, the sparse desert of Phelan, California transitions to the snow capped summits of the San Gabriel Mountains as Union Pacific Railroad 8431 (... (more)

Winter Sunrise on Denver
Westbound just after first light Amtrak 1105 the WPE is leaning into it at Leyden just after 0730.

On the way down to Atlanta, I felt like it would only be right to stop in Lavonia on the way, to see what they had over in the sheds. Not too my surprise, the Ex-CNW, HRT 4556, was the only one in... (more)

P001-09, en route from Jacksonville to Chicago, crosses the massive Susquehanna River bridge.

Railcars ABe 4/4 # 53 and # 52 of the Rhaetian Railway in multiple control are pulling regional train 4629 from St.Morritz over the Bernina pass to Tirano. The train is crossing the 50 meter long ... (more)

Amtrak Heritage
Tunnel 29 plays host to Amtrak 5 in classic colors.

Delivering interchange traffic from FMI’s huge copper mine operation to Arizona Eastern Railway at Clifton, a Freeport McMoRan train eases down the steep grade between Morenci and Clifton, Arizo... (more)

Train L516, the daily train from New Brighton, MN to Stevens Point, WI runs east at sunset. The setting sun casts a warm glow but the fresh snowpack lends an arctic feel to the scene. One of the f... (more)

As night falls over Kansas City, MO, a Kansas City Terminal Railway local job heads west through the Union Station area on May 8, 2022.