As the sun sets on National Train Day 2013, Canadian Pacific's Vancouver to Chicago hotshot rolls through Belgrade, Minnesota, passing a maintenance of way caboose stored on the adjacent siding.
A westbound BNSF coal train passes through Barr, Colorado, at dawn on December 2, 2010. As the DPUs pass by, thin clouds are turning pastel shades of yellow, orange and red by a rising winter sun.
It's a calm and peaceful evening on Berthoud Hill as a DPU helps assist the daily Laurel, MT to Denver, CO manifest up the hill as the train proceeds south towards Longmont and eventually Denver.
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)