High Plains Morning Amtrak 5 whips up the dust through Keenesburg, CO

An orange sunrise greets the passengers and crew of the California Zephyr as it runs past a silo in Keenesburg, Colorado.

The peace and quitness of a relatively warm spring evening gets broken by VR freight train 53057 making it's way towards Raahe steel mills with a load of empties

The sun twinkles between the trees and across the water of the Black Warrior River in Downtown Tuscaloosa as Alabama Southern train 131 snakes its way back towards Birmingham.

An outbound train to Port Jervis crosses the over half-mile-long Moodna Viaduct as the sun heads towards the horizon on a December afternoon.

Two RTD Commuter Trains pass at dawn on the elevated section leading to Arvada, Colorado.

A fiery sunrise greets a southbound BNSF coal load in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin south of Bill on May 30, 2009.

Two SD70ACe's power a loaded coal train across the Powder River Basin as a severe thunderstorm rumbles to the west.

Twilight dominates the skies as a pair of GP38s on the midnight yard job in Regina sit idle awaiting their next assignment.

At the end of a clear day in Powder River Basin, a southbound Union Pacific coal train heads for home rails south of Bill, Wyoming, on July 8, 1999. Just for the record, this is a Kodachrome 64 sl... (more)

It's a cold blue hour as NS 26C (Jacksonville,FL-Chicago,IL) start to pick up the pace after getting a diverging-clear signal at Tenbridge to cross over to the adjacent track. Like anything that i... (more)

Seconds before subrise an eastbound BNSF train runs through Dennison on the Seligman Sub. Every July I make it a point to visit the spot and see what the AZ sky has to offer.

With only minutes of light left a BNSF Q-ALTPTL climbs Winston Hill with Boeing 737 fuselages in tow.

CSX 3370 Leads a two unit auto rack train Northbound over the TN River in Decatur Alabama with an amazing sunset and crazy clouds in the background

During sunrise two Saxon IV K locomotives 99 1568 of Pressnitztal Railway and 99 1584 of Döllnitzbahn are en route with freight wagons on "Rollwagen".