A northbound BNSF coal train heads across a fill just south of Bill, Wyoming. The Powder River Basin is a great place to catch beautiful sunsets.

The classic CB&Q Signal Bridge at the Belmont Metra Station is nearing the end of its life, as the new signal is nearing completion.

D&RGW's original search lights still protect UP's Craig Branch and our galaxy at 04:00h. I don't believe there was a single train on the entire 130+ miles of this coal branch line, the Milky Way a... (more)

All night long. As Lionel Richie sang, the trains move through the pass. Here a westbound traces its path around the curve shortly after sundown.

A westbound manifest paints the scene with light, as it rolls through Afton Canyon along Union Pacific's Cima Subdivision. The bridges in the foreground are one set of three different spans that ... (more)

The Beaver Bridge over the Ohio River carries CSX rails across this colossal span.

The Blue Hour at Hill 582 [2011 Winter Solstice Study] A westbound BNSF stack train approaches the intermediary signals at Hill 582 while the sun sets over the Pacific Ocean on the sho... (more)

As a stiff breeze from an approaching cold front blows the lingering clouds off the continental divide revealing the stars above, the trailing headlight of the helpers on a loaded eastbound coal t... (more)

A comin' down the mountain.

The EOT of the train 494 pass at Km.66 junction

In the blue gloom of a winter evening's twilight, the headlights of an eastbound stack train illuminate the west portal and interior of Cascade Tunnel. Ahead, pierced only by the light carried by ... (more)

West Portal Cascade Tunnel; What sometimes looks like a worm hole straight out of Star Trek or a time travel portal is the powerful headlights of a westbound locomotive highlighting the con... (more)

Always wanted to do night shots of PRR signal.