CSX L303-20 Eastbound over the Grand River in Grand Ledge Michigan with CSX 81 and 315 leading a long train w/ 156 cars and a beautiful sky

Golden hour on the James… Having just made the swap at Montview with the inbound crew from Roanoke, 288 hustles north over the James River as golden hour encroaches on the river valley as the... (more)

CSX mixed freight M520 rolls through Ocean Springs, MS on a late summer evening along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The northbound is led by a matching pair of YN2 AC44s, a sight that has become inc... (more)

On a clear, starry night, the Union Switch and Signal T-2 Semaphores stand quietly against the dark sky in Colmor, New Mexico. Having served for over 100 years, these signals have numbered days as... (more)

Along the Dotsero Cutoff, the tracks cross from one side of the Colorado River to the other multiple time. One such bridge is right around MP 149.5 in red canyon. I am not sure if red canyon is th... (more)

In 1906, surveyors for David Moffat decided that Gore Canyon was the route the railroad would take on its way west. Four tunnels were built through some of the solid rock faces. 118 years later, a... (more)

The sunset falls over the southbound Gaudalupe Local as it races along the Santa Barbara Subdivision through Ventura Ca. enroute to Gemco Yard in Los Angeles.

On a clear, starry night, the Union Switch and Signal T-2 Semaphores stand quietly against the dark sky in Colmor, New Mexico. Having served for over 100 years, these signals have numbered days as... (more)

This is Nebraska?
Within the 94,000 acre Oglala National Grassland in western Nebraska is the stark and other-worldly Toadstool Geologic Park located northwest of the town of Crawford. ... (more)

Mt Baker sits in the background as BNSF 8580 leads a Roberts Bank coal empty south through the Skagit Valley and Conway, WA on March 17th, 2024.

On July 14, 2024, BNSF’s Laurel to Denver freight follows the Bighorn River past milepost 414 through Sheep Canyon between Spence and Stucco, Wyoming. In only a few more miles and the train wil... (more)

Overlooking Thistle's altered landscape after being decimated by a landslide which blocked the railroad, river, road, and buried the town in 1983. All realignments (rail, river, road) can be found... (more)

Dual DL535s walk their train through the MP 486 slide area that shutdown Silverton service for six days in June, and another day in July after sliding again. The chute is visible behind the locomo... (more)

NS train 12Z passes Arcadia as the Sun sets across the Blue Ridge Mountains

The Mount Stephen Route An eastbound stack train negoiates the last of the 2.2% on the climb thru Partridge above the Upper Spiral Tunnel. Mount Stephen pierces the blue sky at a lo... (more)