Another coal drag moves eastbound as the sun dips lower in the western sky. This train would soon be stopping at a red signal to let a westbound pass.

An appropriate ending to National Train Day 2012: an eastbound unit oil train blasts out of a perfect sunset at Sedan, MN.

Q112 passes under the signals at West Defiance as it heads west at Sunset on the CSX Garrett Sub, Defiance, Ohio

The sun has set on another day but the sky still glows as eastbound grain train 40T passes westbound 15N at CP 417 on the NS Chicago Line.

A Union Pacific trackage rights train rolls west at sunrise west of West Medill. UP has few pairs of trains that run over the BNSF east of Kansas City to Chicago or Edelstein.

An eastbound coal train makes their way east at sunset. The train is passing thru Blairstown, which is located 20 miles west of Cedar Rapids in central Iowa.

It's 2 EMD's winding out in notch 8, westbound CSX train Q387-05 chases the setting sun and a clear block. HIGHBALL!

The Red Eye Ride With the average time of travel from LA to Barstow on the BNSF tracks is about five to six hours long; this crew has a long night ahead of them. They have been on duty sin... (more)

The setting sun glints off the power on a Southern Pacific eastbound at Walnut, California, on October 18th, 1980. Power for this train is SD40R 7302 (ex-SD40 8422), SD40T-2 8517, GP40-2 7616 and... (more)

A new day begins while CSXT 733 waits for its train of corn to be unloaded to make chicken feed. On the adjacent highway, a feed truck begins its trip to a local farm. This photograph was taken wi... (more)

In the last light of the evening, just 10 minutes before sunset, an eastbound stack train blasts through Newberry Springs, enroute to Needles along the BNSF Transcon.

Burlington at Burlington
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy E5 No. 9911-A, from the Illinois Railway Museum lays over at Burlington, Wisconsin, on a rare outside excursion with the Nebraska... (more)

This better become my most popular photo ever, seeing how it cost me seven stitches in my finger, a tow truck and a midnight arrival at Barstow Community Hospital to get it :(

Closing out a gorgeous spring evening, another CP train makes its way east toward the Twin Cities behind one of the railroad's newest locomotives.