BNSF 7916 heads for Tehachapi Pass as the sun sets over Bakersfield.

Signals stand guard over the Union Pacific mainline at milepost 101.2 in Silver Creek, Nebraska, as the sun sets on May 15th, 2013.

The sun rises through the clouds and over the former Western Railway of Alabama trackage as it signals the beginning of another day of train movement along the CSX mainline. Photo taken at a gr... (more)

The setting sun and storm clouds combine to create colorful contrasts that surround BNSF 7418 at Sandcut.

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.

Rise and shine!  It's the start of a new day at the Strasburg Rail Road. No charter, no photo lines, just another day in August as the crew prepares #475, former N&W, to pick up an... (more)

Nevada Northern Railway 2-8-0 No. 93 leads a work train on Steptoe Creek fill east of East Ely, Nevada, at sunset on February 3, 2007. This train was operated as part of the annual winter photo sh... (more)

Q647 is southbound crossing the flood plain on the Ohio River bridge.

A pair of NS units race their train across rural Illinois, and away from the setting sun.

Sunrise on January 23, 2005, sees a westbound Union Pacific coal train climbing out of Leyden, Colorado, at mile 14.5 on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision.

BNSF 7548 thunders through Sandcut as building storms fill the sky at sunset.

Sunrise at Sidney: A westbound Union Pacific coal train passes milepost 403 east of Sidney at 5:43 a.m. on July 11, 2008 under a spectacular Nebraska sunrise.

Winter sunset in Kansas City: A Illinois Central Gulf freight heads east at Signal Bridge 19 at Sheffield Tower in Kansas City, Missouri, on December 8, 1985. This is on the Kansas City Terminal a... (more)

The final runby's of the day would not be complete without watching the 382 steam off into a winters sunset during a Lerro Productions charter.

Got lucky Finding a prop, A train parked on a load out on the old MStL just off the Spineline. Shot at F 45 the sun was so bright you can see it in the lens bending around the aperture blades, Som... (more)