The leaves are in full bloom as Amtraks Capitol Limited drops downgrade around the Mance, PA horseshoe curve on a foggy and wet morning on Sand Patch.

GEVO Christmas card, Nikon D1

An appropriate meeting for its first occurrence: As the NW heritage unit makes its maiden voyage across "home" rails, it meets the Southern heritage unit at "Farm". The helper set will pass under ... (more)

Get your Lima horsepower right here! (With a "Little" Baldwin on the side.) Train Festival 2009's first night photo session with Little River 110, Pere Marquette 1225, Southern Pacific 4449, and N... (more)

The sleekness of the "Royal Canadian Pacific" blends well with the natural beauty of Alberta.

Santa Fe 315 and 316 pose outside the MP&ES shop in Greenville during a public unveiling. The F7 duo were originally built as Southern Pacific, and will be going to the Galveston Railroad Museum a... (more)

Set against a backdrop of rocky cliffs, the Animas River far below, and snow depths not seen in the past 15 years in southwestern Colorado, K-28 #478 blows down as she slowly makes her way north a... (more)

Built for North Western Coal and Navigation (nee Alberta Coal and Railway Company, nee Canadian Pacific) in 1885, this 36" gauge 2-6-0 Mogul was one of three purchased by Canadian Pacific in 1907 ... (more)

Union Pacific consolidation #618 crosses the Snake Creek Trestle during winter. This is the winning color photograph from Winterail 2009.

Catching the last two minutes of sun on this fine spring day, BNSF 8295 leads an auto train west at Lyle, Washington. Gotta love the silver and red at sunset.

An eastbound/southbound BNSF manifest loops the "loop" on its winding way up the mountain. A warbonnet leads with two distributed power units pushing. A CD with over 70 high-resolution aerials wi... (more)

The 644 leads a northbound Westsider freight train towards McMinnville. It was pouring down rain just prior to this photo, and I got my feet wet while hurrying to get different angles as the train... (more)

VRE train 304 derailed on a switch at Possum Point at 645AM. The train in the background is taking the passengers back south towards Fredericksburg area stations.

Westbound "Blue Streak" derailed mid-train doing 38 MPH wiping out bridge.