Approach, Clear, Galaxy.

Railfan and Railroad's 2020 Center Spread 3rd Place Winner

Ancient Semaphores guard the the galactic core of the Milky Way as i... (more)

Just before sunset, BNSF AC4400CW No. 5618 approaches Pueblo Junction with an empty coal train under a rainbow in Pueblo, Colorado, on July 27, 2019. The train is about to come off the Spanish Pea... (more)

The sun pokes through the thick Virginia fog as K446 crosses the Copper Creek Viaduct.

With a fresh crew and a good warrant, BNSF 6305 begins the long journey across Colorado as it hauls 12,634 feet of empty coal cars. BNSF has increased their numbers of double empty coal trains ove... (more)

Due to a derailment and severe flooding in Baltimore, some reroutes were in order, including this R138 which had gone east previously. R138 heads west being rerouted during sunrise through foggy ... (more)

Iowa Interstate’s Rock Island heritage unit passes the 1893-built Rock Island/ Minneapolis & St Louis Railroad's Union Depot in Grinnell, IA.

Rounding through the Horseshoe Curve at Glenshire, a Union Pacific unit train heads down the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains to Reno.

As a series of severe thunderstorms build over the Colorado Front Range, BNSF 8253 leads the Denver, CO to Lincoln, NE manifest east through the small town of Roggen, CO on June 17th, 2019.

The setting sun lights up a passing thunderstorm, as ambient light from a brilliant Wyoming sky illuminates an empty potash train powered by a trio of Union Pacific EMD SD40-2s climbing Peru Hill ... (more)

Loads of coal for Eastman Chemical in Kingsport, TN exit the Earth at the south portal of Natural Tunnel near Duffield, Virginia shortly after daybreak on a muggy may morning. Someday I'll be loo... (more)

As severe storms start to roll in from the mountains, a few rays of sun peak through the clouds over the James River as 212 makes their way north with the New York Central and Penn Central heritag... (more)

On this May morning a thick fog hung over the James River while everywhere else the morning was beautiful. Amtrak 20, the NB Crescent, cuts through the fog like a knife as it heads out of Lynchbur... (more)

A BNSF coal train heads south out of Bill, Wyoming, at the end of a rainy day in Powder River Basin on May 3, 2007.

Eastbound grain loads from Nebraska make their way eastbound over the former CNW mainline as a stunning sunset reflects off of a flooded corn field.

Big Boy 4014 steaming right out of Heaven, Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 and 4-8-4 No. 844 double-head into Granger Junction on a cold, spring morning.