Heading east upgrade through Lilly, Pennsylvania and the beautiful Fall Colors, a stack train traverses one of the many elevated curves on the West Slope.
An empty Crude Oil train fights upgrade at East Mahanoy Junction onto the M&S Branch. A late morning Port Clinton Extra crew picked this train up at North Reading Yard and is moving it north for t... (more)
Arkansas and Missouri's original owners, the Hannolds, were very receptive to rail photography - so much so that they sponsored several invitation-only photographer specials. My friend Rich Jahn w... (more)
A winter dream with postcard weather was the last day of the year 2014 around the famous village of Gstaad. Snowfall the days before led to a completely white landscape. The Be 4/4 5003 was on a... (more)
On Sunday, December 28, just a day before Amtrak's Vermonter train switches routes between East Northfield and Springfield, Massachusetts, to the Pan Am Southern Connecticut River Line, Pan Am Sou... (more)
The 261 is in the lead with 6 empties from Southern Container and MP15AC 156. In this day of high fuel cost runs to clean up the branch do not occur anymore. No new cars to switch today. The forme... (more)
The Leavenworth Snow Train has disembarked its passengers for an afternoon of festivities and a tree lighting ceremony. The train is headed 20 miles east to Wenatchee for cleaning and for locomoti... (more)
Snow flakes abound for the Leavenworth Snow Train's final run from Seattle to Leavenworth and return for 2014. The train featured Amfleet, Horizon fleet, a former GN great dome lounge, and a pair ... (more)
A coal train heads east towards Horseshoe curve as a roadrailer zooms past west at speed.
As the larch burn bright orange on the mountain slopes behind, an empty Boardman coal train slowly approaches the crest of Evaro Hill. The engineer is already easing off on the throttle in prepara... (more)
Minutes after a crew change at Minturn, the OANSF meets brilliant fall foliage on the ascent to 10,424 ft. Tennessee Pass on Sept. 26, 1996.
Extra Charlotte-bound manifest 10D drifts south by Five Row as the fall colors are just past their peak.
The Virginian heritage unit leads a Philadelphia bound oil train with 109 cars (107 tank cars and 2 spacers) down the Selkirk Branch at 9:00am.