On a rainy, foggy night in Cheyenne, Wyoming, a Union Pacific coal train prepares to depart after changing crews. To the left of the train is the historic Cheyenne depot and shops in this April 19... (more)

A Northbound Union Pacific stack train rolls through Sandcut on an unusually cloudy May afternoon.

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

End of another day in Powder River Basin
The DPU's of a Union Pacific coal train cast a silhouette against a brilliant sky moments after sunset, south of Bill, Wyoming, on June 29, 2002... (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)

Under a clear Western North Carolina night sky a northbound CSX empty hopper train is stopped off of the crossings at Green Mountain, NC before taking the siding to meet a southbound loaded coal t... (more)

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.

BNSF's daily early-morning South Seattle-to-Chicago Z train is silhouetted by the rising sun as it rolls through the fog along the Snohomish River.

The setting sun glints off the flanks of BNSF's Stockton, CA to Barstow, CA manifest train. The train rolls through Sandcut shortly after the conclusion of the solar eclipse of May 20, 2012.

An eastbound manifest negotiates several "whoop-de-doos" (to use the technical term) near Seligman, Arizona as a lone truck heads west toward Peach Springs on the old Route 66.

BNSF 6005 & 5944 lead an eastbound loaded coal train.

UP 4607 casts a ghost like image under the old C&NW signal bridge in Rochelle. A big thanks goes to Railpictures contributor Frank Stachowiak for the use of his flash units.

A westbound intermodal train on BNSF’s busy Transcon rolls westbound through Ludlow, California. Sometimes you spend so much time setting up for the head-end shot, that you miss a golden opportu... (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)

A BNSF manifest freight rolls east on the Montana Rail Link near Trout Creek, Montana. Even though the fish were biting, I will always have time to photograph a train.