On what turned out to be a very cold day a buddy and I drove the 212 miles from Anchorage to Cantwell where the Alaska RR snow fleet had tied up for the night. With a 0600 call time we knew we wou... (more)

2-6-0 T cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # 1 "Furkahorn" of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (DFB) is ready for departure at Gletsch with train 134 over the Furka pass to Realp. Because of... (more)

KCS 4828 leads the M-SHAR (Manifest Shreveport, LA - Artesia, MS) across the east end of the Meridian Sub with all of its roller coaster-like "hogbacks".

Leaving the town of Fillmore behind in the beautiful evening light, FWRY 100 belches a brief cloud of smoke as it leads the 2018 edition of the "Firecracker Train" over the Santa Clarita... (more)

A beautiful morning in Seligman Az. with fog to the west, after 11 days in a row of rain from monsoon storms.

Looking like a Star Wars scene In February of 2006 the weather was no different from a typical Sierra Nevada Winter. In this scene the UP 604 pauses in Truckee, CA while the storm continu... (more)

Powering along the Trans Australian Railway, Genesee & Wyoming Australia EMD's CLP16 and ALF23 power their loaded ballast train 9M25s upgrade through the Wirrappa curves as they head for Tarcoola ... (more)

Illuminating the mist... Backwoods of central Russia at the north of wooded and swampy Tver region. Local time 4-26 AM. TEP70 locomotive with passenger train "St. Petersburg - Yar... (more)

With daylight beginning to fade, the sun's golden rays light up this eastbound intermodal. In the distance the air is still slightly polluted from the wildfires burning around the area. This train... (more)

Misty morning in Yacolt. The early morning ground fog and mist are still burning off in the tiny Washington hamlet of Yacolt, as the crew of a Crossett Western saddle-tanker takes their loc... (more)

The second day of the first test runs of the brandnew highspeed train "EC 250" (designation Stadler Rail) or "Giruno" (designation of the SBB) RABe 501 001. Many photographers enjoyed the elegant ... (more)

Winters Last Gasp

Near the very end of March Southcentral Alaska got hit with its last good snow dump of the winter season. Nearly a foot fell in some places and the fresh afternoon... (more)

With the sun begins to dip behind the San Francisco mountains in Northern Arizona, a high priority UPS train from Los Angeles, CA to Willow Springs, IL races down the eastern slope of the Arizona ... (more)

The two Grand Canyon Railway's steam locomotives 2-8-2 Mikado #4960 and 2-8-0 Consolidation #29 are seen on the "dark side" of the wooden bridge at Miller's Wash (MP 36.1). A great Lerro... (more)

The clouds are just starting to break up and allow just a sliver of sunshine to meekly light the scene. 4319 leads 87 cars for the dock at Whittier, it is rather rare to catch a solid manifest on ... (more)