On a cold January evening in 1979, the conductor of D&RGW train #17 awaits baggage and head end business removal from the Rio Grande Zephyr. In a few minutes he will offer the engineer a 'Highball... (more)

Harper's Ferry, WV 8/31/2012 - At 10:37 p.m., the full moon casts a bright glow across this famous Civil War town as loaded autoracks race across the Potomac River behind CSX Q-226 and the Winches... (more)

The days are getting shorter and the shadows are getting in the way already as the SD60's roll through Newport, MN heading for the Twin Cities a few miles away in the last light of the day.

Northbound NS trackage rights train blasts by the B&O cantilever at Glendale.

Moonlight over Lombard
At 8:43 p.m. on the night of September 9, 2011, a BNSF coal train curves into Lombard, Montana, under a bright moon. Headlights of the westbound train lights up t... (more)

The glowing cliffs of Lombard
A BNSF coal train lights up the cliffs that tower above the Montana Rail Link main line at Lombard, Montana, on the evening of September 9, 2011 at 8:43 p.... (more)

Before sunrise at 6:19 AM, the first batch of Hamiltonian commuters pass thru Bayview Junction on a beautiful day in Ontario.

After being skunked by the BLE and actually NS CSX and GE all day the Bessemer finally runs south in the late afternoon with a 5 unit light power move. The last 2 engines are a pair of CSX wide bo... (more)

This must have been the perfect evening to bid farewell to the last train of this season's Scarborough Spa Expresses. 45305 heads eastward out of Leeds, catching the dying rays of the evening sun.... (more)

WACH01 returning from Nepera Chemical about to step out onto Moodna Viaduct

Generations of railroading pass in the night as a new CP GE leads an ethanol train east as a bad-ordered ex-Milwaukee unit sits on the ancient, wobbly, overgrown Stark Candy Spur.

In the last minutes of the day, a northbound CSX freight train chugs up the Hudson River. Light pollution from distant towns and New York City illuminates the sky to the south, as a full moon over... (more)

Northbound CSX manifest passes a set of B&O CPL's at KC Junction.

With a sunrise that should awaken some sleepy eyes on the early morning commute to Hoboken, train #46 crosses the valley as fog starts to form below.

Norfolk Southern train 64J - an empty trash train bound for Kearny, NJ - passes through Phillpisburg, NJ soon after sunset, with the Penn Central heritage unit on the point. Canon EOS 50D, Sigma ... (more)