A typical northern Minnesota November day. BLE 900 charges north on the Minntac Sub to load taconite pellets at North America's largest taconite mine, U.S. Steel Minntac.

An eastbound BNSF freight emerges through morning fog over Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Montana, on October 3, 2013.

The "ghost train" leaves Mineral. After switching onto the main line at Mineral, Hammond Lumber #17 begins plodding slowly south into the murk, with a short freight bound for Mort... (more)

Local time 5-10 AM. Backwoods of central Russia at the north of wooded and swampy Tver region. TEP70 locomotive with passenger suburban train "Bologoe - Udomlya" appears out of the morni... (more)

Misty Mineral Morning. In a pea-soup fog so typical of the Pacific Northwest, Hammond Lumber Company #17, a beefy Mikado Saddle Tanker, switches onto the main line at the shops in Mineral, ... (more)

"ACORN HILL AT DUSK"
The peaks of Massanutten Mountain loom behind the N&W color position light signals that guard the interlocking at the south end of the Bentonville siding... (more)

The sun is trying to burn off the morning fog as a single Canadian National SD60 heads north with a freight at Duplainville, WI.

With a full rising from the east, a westbound stack battles the grade of the Arizona Divide at Cosnino as it meets an eastbound stack train.

Western grain train drops down the Elkhorn grade through the dense fog on a fall morning in late October.

Recreating a scene that could have been found in the woods of Washington state in the late 50s or 60s, NP 7012A switches the yard in Mineral on a typical foggy October morning.

Sometimes when it rains it pours!

A eastbound train of Bakken crude oil rounds one of the curves and disappears in the fog.

51V giving it all it's got coming up track 3 on the "east slope" as a loaded coal train eases its way down into Altoona, probably the 590 I would shoot later in the day to the east, on t... (more)

"FOGGY VISIONS"
The headlights of 213 illuminate the dense fog and silhouette the soon to be replaced N&W CPL signals.

On a crisp fall morning in west central Minnesota, westbound CP train 199 slowly rolls past the state land west of Sedan as the sun rises out of the fog.