Charging out of a rising sun....

A circus train works upgrade on Cajon Pass at sunset.

Clear signal Sproul Jct... Westbound coal loads from Danville head for the C&O mainline at St. Albans, exiting Sproul Tunnel and illuminating the C&O mast signal.

A City of Prineville freight train slowly proceeds westbound on a long tangent with a pretty good vertical curve, approaching Prineville Junction, Oregon, on a sunny September 28, 2016.

Deep in the hills of Cabin Creek, a pair of mainline CSX motors runaround coal empties at Leewood Siding before spotting up underneath the Tom's Fork loadout. The CSX crew will work with the loado... (more)

The quiet pattering of rain and onset of evening darkness are brought to a sharp and deafening halt as the roar of empty CSX ethanol train K412 echos through the Tennessee hills. The headlights ca... (more)

A bright Easter morning sunrise reflects off the California Zephyr and the tracks of the Brush Sub as the #5 train passes through Roggen, Colorado on its way to Denver.

A Westbound BNSF intermodal train is seen inside the portal of Tunnel 3.8 in West Glacier Montana. The tracks through this series of tunnels as they wind their way through the John F. Stevens Cany... (more)

Hard to believe it's been 17 years since I shot this photo. There were a few years in my youth where every April and Aug I was set up near this location to catch sunset. I never caught exactly wha... (more)

As the sun rises over the great plains, a westbound Union Pacific coal empty climbs away from them as it departs Leyden, Colorado, at mile 14.5 on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision on January 23, 2005... (more)

Inversion is a beautiful phenomenon not only in the mountains. A freight train to Klemensów emerges from the fog.

Daily Riverdale-Barr yard transfer heads north on a very dark and rainy spring day.

There is nothing better than ground fog at sunrise to mystify 235 making its morning run from Toronto to Windsor

Finishing up with the floodgates. After a washout that crippled the artery of coal from the coalfields of Southwest Pennsylvania, traffic is non stop on the NS Mon Line. N21 pulls loads north ... (more)

The snowstorm hasn’t arrived yet, but humidity is high in Montana’s Clark Fork Valley as fog rolls through the atmosphere. On Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision rails, a westbound BNSF f... (more)