A sunrise eclipse. A warm glow surrounds Norfolk & Western J-Class Locomotive #611 as she eclipses the rising sun on Pennsylvania's Strasburg Rail Road, with a freight consist, to kick off ... (more)

A BNSF Seattle - Chicago intermodal follows the Kootenai River under an ominous wildfire smoke filled sky.

Amtrak Northeast Regional train 126 races against the sunset, heading to New York Penn Station.

With fall colors in the background, LS&I’s Yard-Hill Job rounds the bend into Eagle Mills Junction with CEFX 1012 leading.

Black 5 heads away from Levisham with a train on a Matt Fisher charter

2 SD70ACe locomotives arrive at Mt Newman with a loaded diesel fuel train. All minesites in the Pilbara have fuels delievered via rail from the port cities. But these can be problematic to photo... (more)

Lake Superior & Ishpeming’s Yard-Hill job passes over the Dead River trestle with a pair of CEFX units for power.

Sunrise at East Portal

The morning sun blinds me through my view finder for this BNSF manifest is about to charge the East Portal of the Moffat Tunnel.

With a smoky sunset aligned with Bridge 14, this UP Oil train tiptoes gingerly across the bridge, just in case.... The dispatcher just "talked by" the crew against a red signal, as the bridge is... (more)

Amtrak’s Southwest Chief, has operated as a daily train for nearly 50 years (although not always with that name, as it was originally the Southwest Limited). That ends in a couple... (more)

Sunset over the Crest of the Continent

Downgrade and at track speed number 6 flies around the fill at Leyden, CO. Intense sunsets have been a norm for several weeks over the f... (more)

A trio of Amtrak GE P40DCs lead the eastbound Empire Builder through Grizzly, Montana, after a morning clamber over Marias Pass on December 22, 1998.

An eastbound auto train drops into Angell as the sun sets over in Northern Arizona on the Seligman Sub.

Sunrise on the last operable N&W "Mollie". Norfolk & Western M-Class "Mollie" #475 hauls a short, mixed consist at sunrise on Pennsylvania's Strasburg Rail Road, at the ... (more)