It's almost midnight and a light fog/rain/drizzle mix is in the air as a pair of signals protect the CN Iron Range Sub. at M.P. 66.3. In all types of weather, night or day they do their job.

Three Tidewater bound coal trains wait to depart Roanoke on a rain slick August 1983 night. Coal loads from Roanoke follow the gentle profile of the Virginian, avoiding Blue Ridge grade. Visible ... (more)

A water tank, a grain/cotton elevator and, most importantly, high school football stadium lights make up the skyline of Shallowater, a typical small west Texas town. BNSF 7881 splits the ex-ATSF s... (more)

FEC 202 rolls across the Stuart Bridge in a very brief but lucky spell of sunshine on a warm evening.

Waiting on a Eastbound, this Westbound mixed freight holds the North main at Vernon on a clear cold night

On an absolute cloud-free January afternoon in the desert Southwest, The Santa Fe intermediate semaphores signals at Wagon Mound bask in the afternoon sun, silhouetted against a vibrant blue sky. ... (more)

Westbound in the cold rain.

During the golden hour, Metra 116 highballs west past Westmont with a express train that will not stop until Naperville.

The yellow glow of another CSX coal train slowly glides along the New River in the dawn darkness as the sun slowly begins to rise and paint the sky in shades of pinks and violets. This view from t... (more)

Aberdeen yard job under the sun. BNSF 1667 and another 40-2 shove on a cut of tanks and hoppers during the last minutes of light on the last day of winter.

A shiny pair of EMDX engines numbers 1205 and 1204 lead the Q400 Hamlet, NC - Cumberland, MD manifest train past the historic E.F. Baldwin designed Point of Rocks Station. Thanks Sean Hoyden for u... (more)

A CSX coal train can be seen snaking along the New River at dawn from the overlook at Grandview. The lights around the bend are from the CSX Quinnimont yard. The well known Prince, West Virginia A... (more)

On Ice- CN Local L510 is on Ice. Not only is the siding their stuffed away in, covered in crusted snow, the South Dispatcher has all but forgotten about this lowly regional road switcher, running ... (more)