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.

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)

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.

Another coal drag moves eastbound as the sun dips lower in the western sky. This train would soon be stopping at a red signal to let a westbound pass.

An appropriate ending to National Train Day 2012: an eastbound unit oil train blasts out of a perfect sunset at Sedan, MN.

Q112 passes under the signals at West Defiance as it heads west at Sunset on the CSX Garrett Sub, Defiance, Ohio

The sun has set on another day but the sky still glows as eastbound grain train 40T passes westbound 15N at CP 417 on the NS Chicago Line.

A Union Pacific trackage rights train rolls west at sunrise west of West Medill. UP has few pairs of trains that run over the BNSF east of Kansas City to Chicago or Edelstein.

An eastbound coal train makes their way east at sunset. The train is passing thru Blairstown, which is located 20 miles west of Cedar Rapids in central Iowa.

The setting sun glints off the power on a Southern Pacific eastbound at Walnut, California, on October 18th, 1980. Power for this train is SD40R 7302 (ex-SD40 8422), SD40T-2 8517, GP40-2 7616 and... (more)

In the last light of the evening, just 10 minutes before sunset, an eastbound stack train blasts through Newberry Springs, enroute to Needles along the BNSF Transcon.

This better become my most popular photo ever, seeing how it cost me seven stitches in my finger, a tow truck and a midnight arrival at Barstow Community Hospital to get it :(

Last light and 2 ES44AC's pull the loads back to speed after cresting a hill.