An eastbound 'super train' consisting of a combined empty coal and grain train eases along the Missouri River headwaters in Lombard Canyon Montana on a hot July afternoon.

The electric locomotive 3ES5K-295 is leading an eastbound freight train near Novy Uoyan, BAM (The Baikal–Amur Mainline).

The Empire Service crosses the High Falls of the Genesee River in the early evening with the new "Phase VI 50th Anniversary" unit.

The California Zephyr arrives at Keenesburg just as Mother Nature provides a spectacular colorful Colorado sunrise.

Below the imposing escarpment of Dodge’s Bluff, Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr traces the Colorado River in spectacular Ruby Canyon just east of Utaline, Colorado, on June 23, 2021.

The diesel locomotive TEP70BS-302 is leading the passenger train #661 Kineshma - Moscow. The time is 2:43 a.m. It`s an hour before the sunrise.

UP 4230 leads GSAPMR-15 (grain train) through Ankeny, IA on the "spine line."

With only minutes of daylight left, BNSF's Custer, WA to Everett, WA manifest rolls past The Chrysalis Inn & Spa in Bellingham, WA on May 14th, 2021 with BNSF 181 in Santa Fe paint leading followe... (more)

Out of the Light and Into the Darkness. As the early morning sun breaks the night, NS 203 heads down the Southern Main through Beaumont and into Magnolia on its way south.

Indiana Railroad's flagship HWSA heads east thru a very hazy and warm Indiana sunset.

For the first time in several decades, the R 12 steam snow blower was faced this day with solid snow compacted throughout the winter. This was a very hard task, may be a to big challenge. The Xrot... (more)

I've had this photo in my head for a few years, but haven't made the time to head out to Moab very often. Since I first wondered if it was possible, I've seen the train framed through Corona Arch ... (more)

Sunset over Wendover Canyon
At day’s end on July 4, 1999, an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train powered by three SD70MACs, leaving a thin veil of exhaust in its wake, n... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2 No. 6836 and Montana Rail Link EMD F45 No. 392 lead BN train 110 over the Rock River at Oregon, Illinois, on the morning of October 22, 1994. MRL No. 392 is still pa... (more)

Winter reflection
Mountains lining the Clark Fork Valley cast a reflection in the confluence of Trout Creek as an eastbound BNSF grain train crosses over Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Monta... (more)