Sun is setting as this freight slowly rolls into Cheyenne yard

Norfolk Southern train 591 hustles west on the former Pennsylvania Railroad Middle Division, passing the formerPennsy signals at MP198 just as the sun peaks over the hillside in Mill Creek, PA and... (more)

The future looks a little like the past as visitors inspect the looming spectre of Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis steam locomotive No. 576. A little movie magic and imagination go a long way d... (more)

The sun is beginning to set on another day along Norfolk Southern's busy Pittsburgh line as loaded coal train 650 departs South Fork, Pennsylvania behind an awesome consist of locomotives featurin... (more)

Norfolk Southern stack trains 20T passes NS 21T at Clymers, IN on the Wabash line during the late Fall afternoon of 10/09/16.

Sunrise on LHS line.

With sunset fast approaching, an eastbound rack train stretches out through the long dip between Miller City and Leipsic on the former NKP mainline through northwest Ohio.

Before I go out I tried to see where the sun will set down the tracks to where I am going. That way if I get lucky enough to get a train in the last minutes of the day maybe I can get a sunset/ris... (more)

A rare daylight appearance by the Barstow to San Diego manifest as it winds its way along the Pacific Coast on a beautiful Summer evening.

The swing helpers on Utah 5001 west push into the setting sun. The grade here has eased to 1% and the helpers will soon cut out of the train and head back to Martin.

On June 30, the Helena Local got a real late start, not arriving at Townsend until sunset. My friend Dave Gayer and I were returning from Lombard thinking we might get lucky and see the train our ... (more)

Even from high above the hills near Darling, Ariz., one can hear the sounds of General Electric motors roaring with life as they fight gravity. The early morning sunlight begins to warm the easter... (more)

As the first golden rays of sun begin shining through the treetops, a westbound unit grain train races across the massive fill and into the rock cut at Granite, Idaho on "The Funnel". So... (more)

In a light drizzle after a day of rain, the skies finally break and reveal a sunset worth the day of rain. And in perfect timing, CSX loaded 130 car coal train arrives in Columbia, SC just as tha... (more)

As the sunsets on the second day of June, a Chicago bound stack train chugs up the long grade of Yampai Hill as it rounds the curve at Antares.