Viewing the forecast for the heavy overnight snow and blizzard conditions, I opted to head out to try and capture a shot that I've done a hundred times in daylight, but never at night. With steady... (more)

A Southern Pacific coal load climbs the steep Tennessee Pass Subdivision a mile or two below the summit on a sunny March 29, 1997 afternoon. The 100 car train had three AC4400CWs on the point, fou... (more)

After a overnight snow fall, most of the snow at Edmonds have melted with some of the snow still hanging on from a distance in Mukilteo. The wind really started to pick up with winds sustained up ... (more)

Derailment in the Feather River Canyon. Just after 3am on November 25th, 2014, a westbound grain train derailed near Rich Bar, California in the Feather River Canyon. The train carrying co... (more)

Chelatchie Prairie Dawn. Up and in the saddle at 0-dark-thirty, the crew of Crossett Western #10 takes a local freight north at sunrise, on a former Northern Pacific branch line that is no... (more)

Tough winter day on the Kyle—24
Derailed Kyle plow extra rests in the snow of a December 29-30 storm that dumped over 30 inches of the white stuff in western Kansas and eastern Colora... (more)

With the temperature close to zero, Amtrak train no. 6, the California Zephyr descends the grade at Big Ten Curve with the Denver Metro area in the background.

Mr. Lewis inspects a few of the gauges on R.J Corman's QJ while it sits on display in Downtown Midway at the Midway fall festival back in 2012

Streamliners at Spencer

The cab of the VRE MP36 are a bit different than the sister units MARC has. Click here to compare.

Mower Lumber Co. Shay No. 4 leads a work train through the s-curve below Whittaker as part of the Cass Scenic Railroad's annual Fall Photography Workshop.

A eastbound train of Bakken crude oil rounds one of the curves and disappears in the fog.

The track and concrete footprint are all that remain of the RJ Corman locomotive shop in Guthrie, KY after being destroyed by fire on 10/5/2014. The 3 locomotives are still in the same spot they ... (more)

A clash of seasons
An early autumn snowfall in the higher elevations of Mullan Pass surrounds Austin Creek Trestle (a.k.a. Skyline Trestle) at Skyline, Montana, on October 11, 1997. Low... (more)

Former MARC 69 has been totally rebuilt from the rail up and painted in a special CSX scheme to match the Geometry Train she will be assigned to. Office car paint was used on the locomotive, wh... (more)