Getting ready to depart for Iowa City and points west.
The Dinner train special heads west over the IC&E main in Davenport, IA.
The moon is rising, and the sun is setting over the Napa Valley, as NVR 70 leads the evening dinner train to St Helena.
With inspections completed, the engineer of Coe Rail's Michigan Star Clipper dinner train climbs aboard the former Bessemer & Lake Erie F7A for another leisurely trip down the rails.
The conductor of Coe Rail's Michigan Star Clipper dinner train makes one final inspection pass before departing the station.
The City of Prineville Railroad's Crooked River Dinner Train heads east towards the railroads namesake town in the fading light on the high-desert in Central Oregon.
The Michigan Star Clipper Dinner trains Ex-Bessemer & Lake Erie F7A rests in front of the depot near Pontiac Trail in Walled Lake.
The Michigan Star Clipper Dinner trains Ex-Bessemer & Lake Erie F7A rests in front of the depot near Pontiac Trail along former Grand Trunk Western trackage.
By now, the passengers aboard the Wine Train are pretty sloshed, as NVR 72 leads the train South towards Napa.
Ready for another run north.
A far cry from todays modern EMD and GE locomotives, this is the control stand of ALCO FPA4 # 70 of the NVR.
The sun is close to setting in the Napa Valley, as NVR 70 trundles north near Rutherford along the Napa Valley Railroad.
NVR 70 hits the 1% grade of Yountville Hill, on a hot summer evening in the Napa Valley.
NVR 70 leads the evening dinner train out of Napa and is starting to head north into the heart of the Napa Valley.