The Clinchfield signals at Elkhorn City shine their colors into the night as the Milky Way twinkles dimly overhead.

On a cool, summer, night along Arizona's high country, the milky way is shining bright over the dark sky. In the mist of the peacefulness of a quiet desert, a BNSF intermodal train slowly rolls up... (more)

The milky way rests above the skies of Delhi, Colorado as the historic mainline wig wag stands dormant over the southern Colorado grasslands. It has been recently rumored that this historic piece... (more)

A fixed semaphore stands tall in the faint glow of the 2017 eclipse in totality.

Norfolk Southern's Andrews Yard in Columbia, South Carolina, was in the center of the path of totality for the total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017. NS 7697, a GE ES40DC, was in between assignm... (more)

A tiny sliver of the sun is visible in the sky overhead as the solar eclipse begins to recede and daylight returns amidst the afternoon. All is quiet at Melrose as the signal stands dark for the 1... (more)

Westbound freight rolls under the intermediate signal bridge at Fort Madison, Iowa as the Milky Way rises in the southern sky, silhouetting the endangered signals on a muggy, late summer's night.

The natural light from the starry sky lights up the iconic landmark in Californian railroading. A BNSF northbound is seen painting out the right of way while descending down the mountain and the T... (more)

Intermodal train passed the junction at Zidani Most: a station in the Y-shaped canyon where Savinja meets the Sava river. This is the station where the East mainline splits in two, one towards Hun... (more)

Under a partially lit Milky Way above, the slow progress of a BNSF intermodal working south up from Tunnel 1 to Bealville is seen in this 14 minute exposure. The train works up through tunnel 2, a... (more)

On a cold, windy night in spring, the beams of light from a southbound BNSF baretable train light up the landscape around the right of way in this 7.5 minute exposure, showing the train work from ... (more)

Photo made with a fisheye lens shot at the very north portion of Arnold Loop. In the distance is Pilot Peak. Two exposures were made and combined in Photoshop to capture the full range of light ... (more)

The decapitated water tower of the Nevada Northern Railway at Cherry Creek Station is lit by the 6 day old waxing moon in a star filled Nevada desert Sky. No train has passed here in a very long ... (more)

Lightning pops out of a distant thunderhead as the prairie winds carry it across the open plains while the beautiful center of our Milky Way Galaxy rises high above the New Mexico landscape and th... (more)