The lights of a helper set bounce off the hills and glow up the tracks for those waiting at the Cassandra All-Nighter 2013 event. This helper set is destined for Johnstown to help assist a loaded ... (more)

The lights of a yet-unseen train cut through the landscape of bare trees, their leaves already fallen for the winter, as daylight wanes on this dreary November day in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Another winter night is settling in over the Clark Fork Valley as a BNSF coal train heads west through Trout Creek, Montana. Headlights pierce a low, rolling fog that is beginning to form amid the... (more)

An NS coal train breaks the still of a hot and humid night along the Tug Fork River.

The waiting game...

Old Southern Searchlights backlit from a northbound light.

With jointed rail still in use on this part of the Front Range Sub, we see the Laurel - Denver in the distance as they roll along through the Northern Colorado rolling hills a few miles south of t... (more)

Early morning northbound in the hills near Blanchet Kentucky.

Strong moonlight illuminates John Stevens Canyon on the west flank of Marias Pass on a chilly winter night. A westbound BNSF train brightens the inside of Tunnel 3.8, while on the hillside above ... (more)

Nighttime along the N&W.... It's a peaceful night with stars shining bright and beautiful, until the faint sound of a westbound time-freight begins echoing throughout the East River Valley.. Soon,... (more)

Soon after the tunnel door opens, an eastbound BN freight roars toward the portal.

At West Ogden, two stack trains meet running left hand main on the Boone Subdivision. The stack train on the left will continue to follow an Ethanol Train and run on Approach Medium Signals unless... (more)

At sunset, an eastbound BNSF intermodal hot-shot lights up the rails at Amboy.

Out on the former Rio Grande main line through the Utah desert, a Union Pacific coal train rounds the big fill on Thompson Hill after sunset on March 4, 2012. The train is led by UP AC4400CW-CTE N... (more)

What lies around the bend?