The Santa Fe Super Chief is seen at Albuquerque New Mexico in 1943. Note the wartime headlight visor on the EMC E6. Jack Delano photo, from the Library of Congress collection and my collection.

Above average temperatures and little snowfall have made for some fog filled nights as evident by the beams from the signals at Noimi Jct. on the CN Minntac Sub. A CN mixed freight is northbound ... (more)

Amtrak P42DC's #138 & #82 brings Amtrak #6 'The California Zephyr' east through the Utah desert at 'Floy'.

Freshly painted Colorado Pacific-CXR 316 at Alamosa, CO. New owners for the former San Luis and Rio Grande RR. I will be back again, hope it all pans out for them.

When I was ten, in the "Roanoke Times" newspaper, I saw a shot of N&W steamers lined up in rows with sparks of acetylene cutters coming up somewhere. Here, in a contaminated field by a ... (more)

The ACWR "Locomotive Bar" in position at Pinehurst in anticipation of the US Open. This is a former CSX AC6000 locomotive that was completely gutted.

Stacks from Long Beach, CA to Memphis, TN negotiates the tight curves of Crozier Canyon as the sound of three GE prime movers battling the grade echo throughout the canyon.

West Virginian Ways | Loaded coal train 766 crawls up the mainline on the famous Elkhorn Grade of the Norfolk Southern Pocahontas District, passing a coal transload facility near the commun... (more)

Norfolk & Western 475 leads its passenger train up the grade at Esbenshade at sunset.

BNSF intermodal exiting the famed Tehachapi Loop.

A lineup of Norfolk Southern and CSX engines sits patiently at the Progress Rail shop in Russell, Kentucky, contemplating their next chapter. Among them, the last of the SD80MACs awaits either a r... (more)

Crescent, Colorado, received 42 inches of snow in a major Front Range storm on March 13-14, 2024. On the morning after the blizzard, BNSF’s Provo to Denver priority freight rolls eastbound on Un... (more)

There Goes The Last DJ...

The last hurrah for coal burning on the Durango and Silverton as K-36, #481 takes charge of the 2024 Winter Photographer's Train for what will be the ... (more)

On a beautiful fall morning, VIA Rail's westbound Canadian races along the calm Yellowhead Lake in Yellowhead, BC on October 1st, 2022.

CSX 5226 Leads the I026 Intermodal NB, over the Rahm Indiana Viaduct. The Viaduct runs over the Ohio River and is built above the flood plain.