Clean paint glints the low Colorado sunlight well as the BNSF test train is switched in preparation for the next day's activities.

The sun is about to duck behind the mountains as this Dash 9 helps shove this Laurel to Denver Manifest towards Boulder and eventually Denver.

The Kiyevsky station (Russian: Киевский вокзал, Kievskiy vokzal) is one of the nine main railway stations of Mos... (more)

The sun rises over Bellevue and when it goes higher it changes the colors of the shining rails it touches, here a kind of coppery gold.

An Amtrak HHP-8 leads a southbound train over the Susquehanna River Bridge as a new day dawns.

Four class 10E1 heavy haul electrics speed through Hamelfontein junction into the setting sun, returning empty hoppers from Ermelo to one of the coal mines around Witbank.

The sun peaks through for a brief moment as this mixed freight heads west towards Calgary. This would be pretty much the only sunlight seen all day on this the shortest day of the year. How glorio... (more)

BNSF 693 leads a bare table through Sandcut.

Brake shoes smoking....Utah 5003 carefully descends the 2% at Gilluly, UT.

BNSF 7216, eastbound at Essex, California, under stormy skies.

A westbound Conrail light helper set drops downgrade near Cresson, PA on Oct. 17, 1998.

Unit train sunrise
An eastbound unit potash train rolls toward Green River, Wyoming, over the Union Pacific on March 13, 2012.

In a blaze of glory, a Norfolk Southern steam special featuring NKP #765 continues West passing through Thompsonville at sunrise while en route to Lewistown, PA.

Burlington Northern's patriotically-painted SD60M no. 1991 takes on an almost ghostly appearance as it rolls east away from the setting sun west of Rozet, Wyoming in July 1991. A pretty wicked sto... (more)