With light fading fast, a pair of UP SD60s lead a seven car A&S 103 south down the A&S main. This train had been working the lumber mil up in Mitchell for the previous two or so hours.

EuroSprinter with westbound intermodal in warm glow of the setting sun passing Pirna, in the background old town, with tower of the church Marienkirche, and dominant Sonnenstein Castle. In Pirna l... (more)

After the area got pounded by a Severe T-Storm, the sun peeks out of the clouds, along with a nice cold breeze to accompany it. The sound of a steam engine can be heard off in the distance. Seen h... (more)

With intense thunderstorms moving in from the southwest, the RCPE crew prepares to depart Pierre.

An empty coke train descends Winston Hill after meeting the Helena Local returning from Logan, MT at Winston siding. The recently set sun still lights the clouds, some of which produced minor thun... (more)

An empty coke train gets underway at Winston, MT after meeting the Helena Local returning from Logan, MT post sunset. The recently set sun still lights the clouds, some of which produced minor thu... (more)

A Pacific Surfliner heads out of Fullerton with the veterans commemorative cabbage on the rear.

The sun is rising over the Clark Fork River Valley east of St. Regis, Montana, on September 13, 1998. Morning fog is slowly burning off as the sun crests over the mountains to the east, silhouetti... (more)

I love this time of the year when the atmospheric conditions form ground fog or mist which enhances the sunrise. This morning NS 35N waits at CP Danes to proceed west after NS local D96 clears Log... (more)

It's just before sunset while an eastbound Z-Train led by Union Pacific ES44AC No. 8011 rounds the big curve as it descends Peru Hill along UP's Evanston Subdivision west of Green River, Wyoming o... (more)

A late evening Amtrak train arrives in San Jose Diridon station just after sunset.

A Lancaster, California bound Metrolink commuter train makes its way through the Sand Canyon Fire near Tunnel #19. The 22,000+ acre wild fire has forced Antelope Valley Line trains to operate at r... (more)

This photo is mid-afternoon on a day without a cloud in the sky. What you are seeing is smoke from the Sand Fire, 40 miles away. Sand Fire smoke covered Santa Monica for most of the day leaving it... (more)

Metrolink 642 arrives at Santa Ana station at dusk under dramatic skies. The smoke is from a massive wildfire 60 miles away in Santa Clarita.