The sun has already set on another cloudless winter day in the Free State, as Sheltam's #1202 (ex- SAR 31-001) running long hood forward, hauls its train of empty hoppers from Harmony Gold's Centr... (more)

Priority manifest traffic from Spokane, WA to Northtown, MN crosses the swollen South Branch Creek on a beautiful Saturday morning.

A westbound BNSF coal train passes through Barr, Colorado, at dawn on December 2, 2010. As the DPUs pass by, thin clouds are turning pastel shades of yellow, orange and red by a rising winter sun.

The Stockton, CA to Willow Springs, IL "Z" train thunders through Sandcut in perhaps the final sunset shot I will capture with the aging cantilever signal as the centerpiece.

This remaining B&O tower at Leipsic gives us reminder of days passed. Guarding this diamond XN tower once protected the interlocking in conjunction with the Nickel Plate RR. Another days sun arise... (more)

91132 heads northbound towards York on the ECML at Heck Ings with 1N27 17:30 London Kings Cross - Newcastle.

A cold Ely sunset. With most of the sane photographers already headed back to their hotels for hot showers, I risk the loss of some critical anatomical hardware as I shoot Nevada Northern's... (more)

Out of the most "uneventful" winter in the Puget Sound, comes a stunning sunset. Finally, passengers aboard the Cascades get to see something in the sky other than gray or black.

With a conductor waving from the steps of the caboose (actually, signaling the engineer), a westbound (southbound) Nevada Northern freight powered by two Alcos glints on Steptoe Creek fill near Ea... (more)

First light over the Cascades as the parade of trains move over the double track mainline between Seattle and Tacoma.

Just minutes before the first rays of sunlight reach the Kalte Rinne viaduct, 2 OBB 1144-series locomotives pull a mixed freight train uphill towards Semmering. This viaduct is one of many on this... (more)

The early morning sun reflects a nice orange glow off the sides of five cryo-trans refrigerated boxcars seen at the head end of today’s Q551. This train is about to pass the Pine Street control... (more)

Harper's Ferry, WV 11/6/2012 - As the last gasps of sunlight recede below the horizon, the CSX Subdivision mainline is brilliantly lit by the arriving westbound MARC commuter train P-875 making it... (more)

As the sun sets in Davis, California, an Amtrak Capitol Corridor train passes a long string of auto racks as it sprints east along the Cal-P Corridor.

On the anniversary of the tragic events of 9/11, a Metro North train leaves the city behind as the new Freedom Tower rises.