A former Michigan DOT locomotive, photographed in Quebec, currently serving in southern California.

Loading and unloading containers on/off trains is a 24 hour/7 days a week job at Union Pacific’s Joliet Intermodal Terminal (also known as Global IV) at Joliet, Illinois, as seen on the night of... (more)

With the sun rapidly setting, CN #401 is experiencing mechanical issues with a traction motor on the trailing locomotive. The locomotives sit on the main line while the crew is trying to rectify ... (more)

Another load of Bakken crude bound for Philly drifts off into the impending evening leaving behind a nice sunset over the Village of Fonda.

The daily Kirk Yard, IN, to Waterloo, IA, manifest train is actually alittle earlier than the normal on late schedule it has been on the past 4 months. The train almost made Waterloo in daylight, ... (more)

Anticipation
Winter air is laden with moisture and a light fog swirls in the airy blue hour of dusk on January 25, 2013. Stillness of the moment is broken as a distant air horn blowing ... (more)

With a Bronco escort running two miles ahead, this two car UP local runs eastbound through the Feather River Canyon at dusk after just clearing through Pulga

Up and over! The FEC dispatcher has given a green light for the southbound intermodal hotshot train 107 as a Delta IV rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral at 8:59 pm. The dots at the to... (more)

Sitting in high idle outside the barn, OSRX 1210 is alive and well again after dumping her water this morning.

Parked and burbling in the frigid night while 4 axle MMA 2002 is doing the switching on the tight switches in the small 3 track St-Jean yard.

A pair of Quebec North Shore & Labrador GEs idle at the interchange with the Wabush Lake Railway at Wabush, NF. The units are seen under moonlit skies on July 18, 2014.

When the first train of the day from Poschiavo via the Bernina Pass to St. Moritz reached the plane of Cavaglia at about 6.50 AM, the two pantographs of the Allegra trainset, each fitted with 3 gr... (more)

Steam under the moon? Well, sort of! Appearing more like a steam locomotive than a diesel, a fresh-from-the-box looking SD60 heads up 451 as they scream through Martins just before s... (more)

A westbound BNSF manifest crosses a causeway on Montana Rail Link along the Clark Fork on a crisp fall morning at sunrise near Trout Creek, Montana.

After two days with about one meter of fresh snow, a wonderful day breaks. Shortly after seven in the morning the first train from Poschiavo just has reached Alp Grüm on 2091 m above sea level. T... (more)