ES1-006 "Swallow" EMU commuter train flies alongside the Sochi coast under the chill November sunset

It is 1050 on January 20th, 2018 and the sun has yet to clear the Chugach and Kenai Mountains but is promising to do so in the very near future. As I hear the southbound freight approaching my loc... (more)

The sun has just set over the Northern New Mexico plains as Amtrak #4 splits through the semaphores of Robinson. The train will continue from here to its next stop of Raton, NM.

BNSF 5956 leads an eastbound empty oil train along the Kootenay River just west of Troy, MT in a mix of sun and rain squalls.

Southbound Amtrak No. 768 with three extra Superliner cars makes for a Nine car Surfliner. Departing Santa Barbara at 6:46am it arrives in Ventura just after sunrise. With the tide high you get a ... (more)

Sunset view from Mid-Hudson Franklin Delano Roosevelt Bridge, EMD SD70MAC No.4731 lead southbound CSX freighter, bordering Hudson river with massive former Poughkeepsie railroad bridge in backgrou... (more)

Southbound Amtrak No.768, the early morning Surfliner from Santa Barbara, heads into the sunrise as it reaches Ventura.

The temperature has dropped below freezing again after a beautiful warm, sunny winter day in Northwest Connecticut, as Housatonic Railroad train NX12 chugs its way up the grade past the dam for th... (more)

"NYAR M3 Scrap Move at LIC" New York & Atlantic Railway's RS-20 crew prepares to shuttle 4 FICX flats loaded with LIRR M3s from Long Island City to Fresh Pond Yard via the Lower Montauk. T... (more)

Where are we again? NS 204 highballs across the Pacolet River at Converse which looks more like a scene from Montana considering the foreign power along with the snow that has blanketed the... (more)

The sun made an appearance for this South Seattle to Chicago Z9. The climb out of the Columbia River gorge will end at Quincy, WA. The train had two DP units on the rear so it was making pretty go... (more)

Living up to its namesake, Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner, train 777, hustles north along the ex-Southern Pacific coast line between Emma Wood State Beach and Faria Beach on a beautiful, spring aftern... (more)

It's Getting Cold Up Here

The first thick blanket of snow has fallen on the Altoona area, and NS is as busy as ever with extra intermodal traffic ahead of the holidays. This place ne... (more)

As smoke from the raging Thomas Fire fills the sky, UP 9906 leads a rail train south out of Carpinteria for Seacliff where it will meet Amtrak 769 before continuing on to Oxnard. The sun, trying i... (more)

Three-to-four and this coming-off-the-Columbia-Sub stack and its hangin-ten-high crew wait for a favorable approach at Latah Junction as the clouds drift swift overhead on a quickening breeze and ... (more)