The Blue Looper coal train has just entered Arizona, leaving the beautiful cliffs at Lupton behind 6/14/12.
Fog envelopes the town of Sandpoint and Lake Pend Oreille, as a westbound BNSF grain train makes its way across the "Funnel."
A Union Pacific Las Vegas to Salt Lake City officer's special glides north through rural Springville, Utah. Scanned from a Kodachrome transparency taken via the deck of the 14th North bridge where... (more)
Amtrak's northbound Pacific Surflinerer to San Luis Obispo crosses over the Gaviota Trestle on a beautiful summer evening.
Southbound Grangeville local crosses a wooden matchstick trestle north of Cottonwood
The Glacier Discovery works north after passing the Girdwood Passenger station. Moments earlier a rainbow filled the Girdwood Valley but now dark storm clouds are shrouding the Chugach Mountains ... (more)
Never thought I'd see this in 2008. Three units still painted in the Santa Fe, red and silver warbonnet scheme, lead an empty grain train as it works upgrade between Caliente and Bealville.
'Night Moves'
One of my personal favorites of all the slides I have shot. SP's San Joaquin Daylight as it passed over the Loop in April of 1971. But who was that girl? Her face and wave have stuck in my mind fo... (more)
Rio Grande Zephyr train #18 rolls through the community of Spring Glen, about five minutes out of Helper. Next stop, Green River, Utah some 68 miles away.
While waiting for a photo of Amtrak 799, I was pleasantly surprised to catch a southbound UP freight. Ironically, in the summer months when the sun is right for this shot, morning fog is very com... (more)
OC put on a spectacular show of steam running both GTW #6325 and former Canadian Pacific G-5 #1293 side by side on it's former PRR lines through Ohio.
After a 2 hour wait with no trains, the last light of day sees an empty garbage train heading West along the Columbia River