As a heavy fog begins to clear and the sun starts to come out, BNSF 6785 leads a southbound Roberts Bank coal empty through the forests near Samish, WA on January 14th, 2022.
A really strong geomagnetic storm hit earth this weekend making auroras highly visible in Central Finland. This got me to Vihtavuori, where an amazing northern lights show was waiting for me. Sadl... (more)
KCS 2919, a 48 year old GP40-2LW, idles away at the Meridian yard on this cold January morning. 2919 began life as CN 9496 in September of 1974. The unit was on CN until the mid 90's when KCS boug... (more)
Five Rio Grande F7s lead by 5644, exits Tunnel 1 at Plainview, Colorado and gets ready to drop down into Coal Creek Canyon in May 1965. Photo by J.B. Calvert, from my slide collection.
There’s no mistaking whose train is climbing the Tehachapi grade near Cable, California. No less than five cabooses punctuate a manifest consisting of mostly... (more)