K-36 #487 simmers at Cumbres Depot after a Lerro photo charter

An Atlas rocket with a secret military satellite lifts off from Cape Canaveral as signals from the Florida East Coast Railroad stand guard.

Up and over! The FEC dispatcher has given a green light for the southbound intermodal hotshot train 107 as a Delta IV rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral at 8:59 pm. The dots at the to... (more)

It is a star filled night in northern Missouri along the Marceline Sub. Sign of changes are still evident as new and old signals stand along the right of way for now. These ex-Santa Fe cantilever ... (more)

Osier after dark. Free of the light pollution from modern civilization, the heavens above put on a spellbinding display over the old D&RGW water tank in Osier, Colorado. Backlighting by God... (more)

Illuminated entirely by star light and the passing of two separate trains, a star filled sky swirls above the New River Gorge at Sewell as an eastbound loaded coal train crosses the New River on m... (more)

The Northern Lights shine over the old Milwaukee Road lift bridge in Hastings as a westbound train crosses the river.

"Green light go for launch!" Florida East Coast train 226 has a green light to proceed north towards Jacksonville as an Atlas V rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral at 4:10 am. Strong upper... (more)

Lift-off! All is quiet on the Florida East Coast Railway in Melbourne as a Delta 4 rocket lifts off from Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral. The rocket is carrying an Australian satellite and ro... (more)

In the Greenbrier River Valley east of Hinton under a clear winter sky, the double track intermediate signal bridge at Riffe displays a clear signal for an approaching eastbound loaded coal drag.

Traveling Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision, an eastbound BNSF train approaches Trout Creek, Montana, on the evening of September 20, 2012. As the train streaks through the darkness and cas... (more)

As the Milky Way dances over the night time sky in the New River Gorge at Fayette Station, the drone of a pair of idling standard cabs sit in the short, Fayette Siding on the head end of a welded ... (more)

Under a star filled sky on a crystal clear, fall like night in the New River Gorge, a westbound empty coal train snakes along the south banks of the New River, passing the massive New River Gorge ... (more)

Speers Ferry, VA 7/23/12 - Thirty minutes under the massive Copper Creek Viaduct on the former Clinchfield Railroad shows the rotation of the earth, pivtoing around the North Star. One general man... (more)

The C&O Cantilever stands guard for another night in Hilldale, under a swirling Summer sky.