Cosmos in full bloom on the Highveld can only mean one thing - summer is over and autumn is on the way. With the pink and white blossoms adding splashes of colour along the tracks, this coal train... (more)

Help Wanted: A BNSF helper set shoves on the rear end of an eastbound manifest freight heading up the western slope of Marias Pass. The train is seen here, crossing the Goat Lick Trestle ne... (more)

A westbound empty approaches the crest of Blue Ridge grade on sweltering June evening.

CP 8877 leads this eastbound Stacker through midtown Toronto.

The winter that just won't end. Heavy, wet snow continues to fall as DM&IR 406 leads the 145 empties northbound towards U.S. Steel Minntac for loading.

The fields below the Moodna Viaduct are full of spring flowers as a Port Jervis bound train heads north.

Eastbound BNSF 5019 is crossing Nason Creek and will arrive at Merrit, WA in a few minutes. It is early september and the trees have not yet started to turn.

Due to a signal maintainer working on a problem on the Robson Sub and no eastbound working up the less steep Albreda Sub, M347 was told to head down the Albreda Sub around the foreman to get to th... (more)

CP 9351 and CP 8927 get serviced and prepped before departure. Meanwhile a fuel truck crosses over at the south end of the Golden Yard. It must be Spring; ice in the foreground and heat distorti... (more)

TGM6 locomotive transports cars with clean coal from "Moscow coke and gas plant" ("MOSCOKS"). Part of "MOSCOKS" railway passes through the picturesque arboretum in southern Moscow. Railroad: Russian Railways
Locomotive: TGM6
Location: Moscow, Russia
Locomotive #: 2254
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: October 11, 2011

Metro North's assigned Croton Harmon Shop switcher makes it's way north up the Upper Hudson Line to Poughkeepsie to pick up a problematic "bomb" set. The geep later brought down seven shoreliners ... (more)

This heavily loaded eastbound ballast train is just crawling up the 1 percent grade on a nice winter afternoon in the Sonoran Desert. Even had some "Kodachrome Skies" for this one!

Eastside Freight grinds uphill at a slow 4 MPH in notch 8. They had an unusually big load for this run. Here they are seen rounding the curve at Cathcart.

CP 247-21 creeps and snakes through downtown Hamilton and is on the approach to Hunter Street tunnel. The MacNab Presbyterian Church looms in the background.

Burlington Northern train No. 110 with two GP50s on the point, heads east over the Rock River at Oregon, Illinois, on October 22, 1994.