Strong storms of have moved east and the smell of fresh rain lingers in the cool evening air as an eastbound CP train splits the small Minnesota town of Belgrade at sunset.

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

The Great Salt Lake... one of the most beautiful photo places I have visited in my life. At dusk, you can sometimes see two trains following one that's already on the dam. When I first saw the lig... (more)

The black and threatening sky of a hot afternoon has given way to a beautiful sunset, punctuated by a few soft clouds. Straight down the dirt road is the mighty Longs Peak, many miles beyond the n... (more)

BNSF 7916 heads for Tehachapi Pass as the sun sets over Bakersfield.

Signals stand guard over the Union Pacific mainline at milepost 101.2 in Silver Creek, Nebraska, as the sun sets on May 15th, 2013.

The sun rises through the clouds and over the former Western Railway of Alabama trackage as it signals the beginning of another day of train movement along the CSX mainline. Photo taken at a gr... (more)

The setting sun and storm clouds combine to create colorful contrasts that surround BNSF 7418 at Sandcut.

The Stockton, CA to Willow Springs, IL "Z" train thunders through Sandcut in perhaps the final sunset shot I will capture with the aging cantilever signal as the centerpiece.

Q302 rolls through the fog at Lowell just after Sunrise.

Rise and shine!  It's the start of a new day at the Strasburg Rail Road. No charter, no photo lines, just another day in August as the crew prepares #475, former N&W, to pick up an... (more)

Nevada Northern Railway 2-8-0 No. 93 leads a work train on Steptoe Creek fill east of East Ely, Nevada, at sunset on February 3, 2007. This train was operated as part of the annual winter photo sh... (more)

Sunrise at Lava Tank. A Denver & Rio Grande Western freight making an early morning run from Alamosa to Chama charges through the loop at Lava Tank as the sun peeks over the hills to the ea... (more)

Forest fires diffuse the setting sun as a BNSF eastbound stack train crosses the big Lake Pend Orielle trestle.

Lerro Productions photo charter, C&T K-36 at sunrise on Hangman's Trestle.