At the end of hot July day, coal loads roll across the trestle above Fish Creek, following the Clark Fork to Sandpoint and beyond.

As the 91 freeway starts showing the first signs of the morning rush, a Metrolink train bound for Los Angeles races quietly down the track away from the rising sun, about to pick up a load of comm... (more)

ED4M-0407 Aeroexpress DC commuter train carries its passengers to the airport under the May sunset ...

The beauty of the sunrise caught in a frame.

Empire Builders meet
We’re looking out the door window on the rear sleeper of Amtrak’s eastbound Empire Builder moving through a siding over a frigid and barren eastern Montana landscape... (more)

A Winter evening sunset in Bensalem, PA illuminates an eastbound Amtrak Keystone as it barrels along the Northeast Corridor bound for New York City.

On what turned out to be a very cold day a buddy and I drove the 212 miles from Anchorage to Cantwell where the Alaska RR snow fleet had tied up for the night. With a 0600 call time we knew we wou... (more)

A Trenton-bound local accelerates out of Edison station toward the setting sun.

A late summer trip sort of limited our success on our list trip to the Pacific NW. But did create great sunrise and sunsets. Here a Westbound train crosses the famous bridge over Lake Pend Oreil... (more)

Smoky skies create beautiful sunrise light as a eastbound train crosses the single track bridge across Lake Pend Oreille near Sandpoint, ID.

Sumpter Valley Sunrise. The fireman on Eccles Lumber Company Heisler #3 stands atop the tank on his locomotive as the first rays of the October sun come bursting over the hills to the east ... (more)

On time northbound Pacific Surfliner No. 759 from Los Angeles reaches Santa Barbara just as the sun rises.

In a brilliant sunrise on July 7, 2018, a westbound BNSF grain train slowly grinds up Winston Hill approaching milepost 214 east of the top of the grade at Winston, Montana.