Rise and shine!  It's the start of a new day at the Strasburg Rail Road. No charter, no photo lines, just another day in August as the crew prepares #475, former N&W, to pick up a... (more)

An early BNSF train 15 led by Burlington Northern SD40-2 No. 7047 exits Tunnel 3.9 and is about to enter Tunnel 4, east of Belton, Montana, on October 9, 1996. The train is running along the Middl... (more)

The first of three southbound freights scheduled an hour apart out of Anchorage is just a minute out of the small town of Indian and a few second shy of full sunshine. It is a rarity to catch thre... (more)

On an unusual train day on the Alaska Railroad the third train of a three train fleet is just south of Indian when the sun shines through a sucker hole a provides a momentary bit of sunshine.

What does springtime frequently look like in Colorado’s high country? A Union Pacific coal train drops down the two-percent grade just east of Tolland, Colorado, on May 1, 1999. Yes, May Day 199... (more)

On a cool evening perched above the town of Welch, W.Va., finds eastbound loaded train No. 746 working east, as it crosses over highway 16 before entering the Welch Tunnel permeating the hill bene... (more)

A Burlington Northern Santa Fe grain train heads eastbound over Two Medicine Bridge near East Glacier, Montana. On this warm day of October 7, 1996, the aspens are golden to the peak in Glacier Na... (more)

Amtrak No. 8, the eastbound Empire Builder, is east of Red Eagle near Pinnacle, Montana, amid the autumn color of Glacier National Park country on a damp October 6, 1997.

A westbound BN unit grain train eases down the west side of Marias Pass and the abandoned station at Blacktail, MT on June 5, 1990.

Montana “Belle”
It’s just before sunset at 6:43 p.m. on September 11, 2011, at Lombard, Montana, on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision as eastbound empty military train (U-F... (more)

Amtrak's California Zephyr train #6 glides east through Spanish Fork Canyon amid colorful oak brush near Castilla.

An A-B-B-A set of EMD F9s of LTV Mining Company (former Erie Mining Co.) exit Cramer Tunnel with an empty taconite ore train and curve by some of Minnesota’s autumn color on September 24, 1994.

Pulling upgrade out of Muncie, Q358 gives way to the beautiful autumn afternoon.

An eastbound coal led by two patched ex-SP AC4400s rolls along the Colorado River at Radium on what was a very busy day along the former Rio Grande.

Sun rays filter through the trees after a late afternoon rain shower. I pass by this crossing a hundred or more times a year, but this time was special and I just had to stop. After firing off a f... (more)