My last shot of the day and of the OTVR 1483 was appropriately a backlit sunset shot south of Lawndale. Originally built for the Nickel Plate Road almost 60 years ago, this veteran of the rails h... (more)

CN 8886 and 2665 start to pull on their mixed freight just after sunrise in the farm fields of southern Ontario after waiting for room in Sarnia to open up.

Even though the day is just about over, the trains just keep on coming. A westbound covered hopper train races north (railroad west) through the small town of Rock River, Wyoming along Union Pacif... (more)

Another day has ended as a westbound covered hopper train with an SD70ACe DPU races into the small town of Rock River, Wyoming along Union Pacific's Laramie Subdivision on November 19, 2016.

It's that time again, the switch brooms are out and poised at the ready for the first upcoming snowfall. Meanwhile the crew on T69 has tied the power down in Mainline Three and headed to the hotel... (more)

After I got done shooting a G888 at Masonville, I waited around for a lite power move behind them. As the wait carried on the sun barely popped out from the clouds as big thunderstorms dumped tons... (more)

The sun sets on the South Dakota landscape as an SD60M waits to depart with the Willmar to Aberdeen local. With newer GEs ruling most of BNSF's mainlines, it's always a treat to watch and listen ... (more)

The Guadalupe local passes through Seacliff at sunset.

Two UP and two NS GE's lead a container train across the Thebes bridge over the Mississippi river shortly after sunset.

Sunrise on LHS line.

With sunset fast approaching, an eastbound rack train stretches out through the long dip between Miller City and Leipsic on the former NKP mainline through northwest Ohio.

Before I go out I tried to see where the sun will set down the tracks to where I am going. That way if I get lucky enough to get a train in the last minutes of the day maybe I can get a sunset/ris... (more)

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)