Northern Ontario sunset, ONR 121 arrived into Cochrane 15 minutes ago and is now backing into the yard to be tied up and service for the night for tomorrows run south as 122 to Toronto.

With a sunrise that should awaken some sleepy eyes on the early morning commute to Hoboken, train #46 crosses the valley as fog starts to form below.

Mere seconds after the sun set in the distance, an eastbound oil train nears Belgrade.

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.

Some might think getting trains on the UP East-West main at sunset might be easy, well most days it isn't, but today I lucked out to have this eastbound Council Bluffs to Proviso freight train rol... (more)

Energy
A coal train passes an oil well during a beautiful sunrise south of Bill, Wyoming, on May 30, 2009.

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 (and lots of coal trains).

Like the setting sun, the days for views like this for passengers, are fading fast. In the not too distant future, the Cascades fares will entitle passengers to views of Dupont, Lakewood and Sou... (more)

With heritage unit 184 in the lead, a 3 hour late Empire Builder flies west past Mt. Muller near the small town of Lake Park, MN.

An SD70ACe leads a manifest at sunset over a small creek near Westville on the Heavener Sub.

The summer sun rises as a single GE leads a baretable train east near Frazee.

30 minutes after sunset this eastbound train seems to be running from the light as it and the tree line behind it are silhouetted against the dusk sky.

Right on cue, as the sun sets on Verndale Rail 2012, an eastbound arrives in town to give the large contingent of railfans still gathered the chance to take a few glint shots. A few of them are v... (more)

Matched pair of RailAmerica GP38-2s head east toward Reese at sunset.