The setting sun creates colorful drama as BNSF 6035 pulls through Sandcut.

Surrounded by steam. The headlight beam of New Haven 2-8-2 3025 slices through the steam that surrounds the locomotive as the night shop crew inspects and preps her for the next day's work... (more)

With the sun setting over the San Joaquin Valley, Santa Fe 5979 East roars up the grade out of Edison, CA, and heads for Sandcut and Tehachapi Pass. The shape of the big windshields on the cowl is... (more)

Coming down the hill and out of the thick fog, CN 2160 leads 141 cars of steaming taconite pellets from U.S. Steel Minntac with a destination for today anyway of the yard at Proctor. From there th... (more)

A treat for the foamers as an eastbound steel train rests on track 2 at Fullerton. These GEVO's sat here for about 30 minutes and finally got a flashing amber signal and left. Ambient light only... (more)

BNSF 6005 & 5944 lead an eastbound loaded coal train.

The C&O style signal at Hinton show double clears, as the light reflects off the rock surface.

When a bird chirping loudly outside your bedroom window wakes you up at five in the morning and you crack your eyes open to see clear skies, it kind of makes sense to throw on some dirty clothes a... (more)

Illuminated by a passing eastbound coal train, the three track signal bridge at E.E. Quinnimont stands guard in the center of the New River Gorge, west of Hinton. E.E. Quinnimont serves as the onl... (more)

Barely two weeks old, BNSF GEVO 6967 rests after being crawled all over while on display for two days at Fullerton Railroad Days. In the background a Surfliner departs towards San Diego. Ambient... (more)

Lightning over Coal River.. The westbound absolute at E.E. Coal River Siding displays a clear signal for an approaching loaded train, as a cold front to the north helps generate some severe thunde... (more)

Rio Grande F9 5771 lights up the night shortly after being restored in original 4-stripe Grande gold and silver at the Colorado Railroad Museum.

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

The 2012 "Super Moon" silhouettes the intermediate C&O bridge at Longley OH in the final hour of Cinco de Mayo.