As the sun sets, darker clouds roll in from the west in front of a line of storms, as a fairly new ACe leads the top priority train, 212 north towards New Jersey, with loads of UPS on the front.

The sun has set behind distant mountains, but the bright western sky still softly illuminates a westbound BNSF coal train approaching Toston, Montana, on June 25, 2015.

MRL's Laurel-Missoula "LM" manifest sits quietly in the yard at Helena waiting for a crew, just as the sun begins to rise. Unfortunately they would sit here for most of the day.

The sun has just risen as UP 1996 leads a Salt Lake City to West Colton manifest west through a very frosty Cajon Summit.

The first rays of sunrise catch NS 6183 along with yard slug 875 and friend rolling out into the Bellevue yard to start the days work.

Sunset on the Pere Marquette. Pere Marquette 1225 leads a 31-car, double-header eastbound through lush Michigan farmland, just moments before a late August sunset.

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Working along the former N&W and toward a meet at "Kent" with the Q44, NS 745 passes through the small coal mining community of Raven, Virginia at last light.

Sunset over the signals and in more ways than one because these magnificent boards are due to be replaced over the Christmas holidays when colour light signals will take over. Progress?

The crew of this Union Pacific manifest knocks down the signal at Rodell on the Altoona Sub just a few miles east of Fall Creek, Wisconsin.

A Charleston, SC-bound intermodal hurries up the grade at Midland while a beautiful late afternoon sunlight glints along the side of the train.

The ubiquitous brown brick of Queens melds with the late afternoon sun to bathe a passing 7 Train in natural sepia tones. Woodside, Queens, NY

A short eastbound Z blasts through the dry powder at the east switch of Ramsey as a chilly November day draws to a close. The crew is just a few minutes into a long mostly nocturnal trip to Whitef... (more)

One of the busiest railroad locations in the United States is the Powder River Basin. There can be over one hundred trains a day hauling forty percent of the nations coal demands. These are the th... (more)

"Running Southern style". Under the symbol 90T, a single light engine runs long hood forward across the Clinch River into Clinton in the early morning hours. This unit was heading... (more)

387 eases under the overhead signal at Yuma.