Midnight Milky Way | A couple of minutes past midnight on the morning of Sunday, June 16, 2024, southbound CPKC manifest train M280 cruises through Page, OK beneath a clear sky. Looking tow... (more)

A pair of EMD's sit at the south end of Garnet Yard awaiting the return back to Sarnia later tonight are greeted by the solar eclipse from above.

Silhouetted against a clear night sky are the Searchlights at Control Point Simon along the Guyandot River Branch.

One of those nights a person just doesn't forget. Standing trackside at 0100 on a peaceful night watching the sky come alive.

Aurora Borealis was slightly visible along BNSF's Needles Sub at Danby. All red across the board at the EBCS East Danby as an eastbound Z-train approaches for a crew change. Once it clears the wes... (more)

A westbound hopper train rolls through the Virginia countryside on a cool Spring night. Overhead, a strong solar storm provides something not seen in over 20 years, the Northern Lights, which were... (more)

NS 310 over the Genesee Arch with the Northern Lights

A northbound CN freight streaks up the CN Missabe through Fairlane as the aurora borealis do their thing in the sky above.

The lights of the head end of a westbound stack train light up the hill side as the train passes through Klondike on the BNSF Needles subdivision. The northern lights make a rare appearance in the... (more)

Under the northern lights… Running south on the heels of Amtrak, Michael Hunt and Travis Elliot interrupt the silence of the night on 27A, as the aurora borealis fills the night sky with shad... (more)

A once in a lifetime event produced purple skies the farthest south I’ve ever been alive for. Here is the southbound signal lit up at CP 102.

Kicking off National Train Day 2024 at 0100, southbound iron ore loads wait for a northbound empty as they cross paths at Biwabik under some impressive aurora borealis taking place in the sky abov... (more)

On the night of 10th and 11th of may a massive solar storm hit earth with northern lights visible through out Europe. Seeing the natures own light show on the northern sky is relatively easy in al... (more)

A former BNSF SD9 rests beneath a star filled winter sky in rural Nebraska. The H1 paint scheme on this unit is holding up nicely. This is certainly a rare breed.

A former NS highhood GP38-2 is on the head end of a set of NS motors destined for the PowerRail shop in Monroe, Georgia. They are seen here tied down along the Great Walton Railroad beneath the ri... (more)