First light over Scales. Morning cloud cover filters the mid-winter sunrise over Scales as the former McCloud River Railroad Mikado #18 hauls a cut of freight cars north toward Gold Hill an... (more)

UP 5551 leads the last of three UP trains in a row, through one of the numerous curves along the Puget Sound on BNSF's Seattle Sub. Bound for Seattle, this grainer will leave the BNSF Seattle sub... (more)

A westbound BNSF manifest crosses a causeway on Montana Rail Link along the Clark Fork on a crisp fall morning at sunrise near Trout Creek, Montana.

It's Christmas Eve and my last train before CP shuts down for the Christmas holiday was a beauty: an SD30C-ECO (CP 5019), a GP20C-ECO (CP 2203) and a GP38 (CP 3020) lead train 499 out of a nice su... (more)

The engineer, fireman and conductor job brief on a bitterly cold early January morning, transporting the photographer back in time as if he were alongside Plowden, Shaughnessy, and others recordin... (more)

A SY chugs past the setting sun after a hard days work hauling slag from the massive Baotou Steel Mill. The setting sun was a potent metaphor for the future of this locomotive and her sister SY 2-... (more)

Under an incredibly dramatic sunset, eastbound Q382 throttles up and enters the plant at West Deshler, where they'll cross over to main one to get around stopped traffic ahead. Just one of those "... (more)

Ex-SOO 6051 leads a lengthy CP 470 train over the hill east of Fairdale, Illinois in the last minutes of daylight.

In an absolutely gorgeous setting, No. 820 drops downgrade through Kumis, Va., with a heavy coal drag bound for the ports at Norfolk, as the whine of dynamics disrupt the tranquility of the scene.... (more)

New Hope and Ivyland's #40 (lettered for the L&C) gets an early morning start bringing a freight around the bend at None Such Farm bound for in Rushland, PA. Part of a Lerro Productions charter.

The sun struggles to fight its way out of the clouds just after sunrise as #40 leads a mixed train through the curve at None Such Farm. A Lerro Productions photo charter on the New Hope & Ivyland.

PRR Class L1s 2-8-2 #520

PRR's 2-8-2 #520 makes it's full profile debut on RP. Built by Baldwin in 1916, the engine was donated to the museum in Dec. 1979 spending much of it's life outdoors... (more)

Rise and shine!  It's the start of a new day at the Strasburg Rail Road. No charter, no photo lines, just another day in August as the crew prepares #475, former N&W, to pick up a... (more)

It's a brutally cold morning in Colorado as Great Western #90 hides the early morning sun for a few seconds.

An early morning commuter train stops at Newark Broad St Station en route to New York which is in the distance.