Seen here, a thunderstorm brews overhead as Amtrak’s westbound Southwest Chief quickly makes its way past an active semaphore signal. Highlighted is one of many operational signals that currentl... (more)

Montana Rail Link SD45 No. 351 sprints along the Second Subdivision just east of Livingston, Montana, leading a BNSF manifest freight on September 28, 2014. Even though these flared locomotives ar... (more)

Lightning pops out of a distant thunderhead as the prairie winds carry it across the open plains while the beautiful center of our Milky Way Galaxy rises high above the New Mexico landscape and th... (more)

Two classic EMD SW1s hustle a load of pulpwood along the line of the Cloquet Terminal - formerly the Duluth & Northeastern - at Cloquet, Minnesota.

An eastbound train carrying a mixture of double stacks, trailers, and autos dims its lights for an oncoming westbound train near Homer as the sun provides another spectacular sunset along the Need... (more)

As the sun begins to dip below the horizon, an SY locomotive laden with underground mine waste slowly makes its way up the incline to dispose the waste on a mad made hill at Fuxin composed of mine... (more)

L&C GP38AC sits quietly in the yard as the sun sets on a warm March evening.

Hagerstown, MD bound 38Q races south on the former Cumberland Valley Railroad straightaway between Chambersburg and Greencastle, PA along US Route 11. The daily manifest begins its journey at Conw... (more)

A westbound double stack train, led by a 4600 series Dash-9, makes its way across a wash bridge in Kingman Canyon on a mid-March evening.

BNSF's westbound Denver-Provo manifest goes climbs up the 2-percent grade at Rocky just west of Denver on March 14, 2017.

The blue hour has descended over Logan Hill in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin on July 2, 2016. Two Union Pacific coal loads have crested the hill, with the one in the foreground about to knock dow... (more)

Grain hoppers roll back east following the warm glow of the headlamps lighting the path through the tunnels along the Middle Fork Flathead River. The sun will rise before they start the attack of ... (more)

A silhouette with both Grand Canyon Railway steam engines 2-8-0 #29 and 2-8-2 #4960 over Miller's Wash (near MP 35). For the last run-by of the day, I also opted for silhouette. A great Lerro Prod... (more)

With snow blowing off of the train at track speed, A417 heads towards Jasper on the south track of the Edson Sub at Henry House.

CP AC4400CW 9676 leads a detouring CP train through the CN yard at Jasper while a rare CN SD40-2 looks on.