Dust and exhaust from a loaded BNSF coal train mix with an already hazy atmosphere as the sun sets over western North Dakota.

The finches and larks sing their morning songs as the smell of honeysuckle and fresh cut hay fills the hazy morning air. The tranquility of a summer Sunday sunrise is all but perfect as the faint ... (more)

218 420 hauling ist Train to Frankfurt/M. while the sun was rising.

An evening train led by AEM-7 #935 leads an express eastbound through Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania while en route to Philadelphia.

Officially incorporated on March 7, 1892, the borough dominant ind... (more)

Kansas sunset on New Year's Day as a stack train hustles across the plains.

My first evening climb up the Belgrade Co-op elevator of 2015 yields a nice view of an eastbound crude oil train at sunset as it rolls through town and heads for a meet at Murray just east of here... (more)

NS No. 9104 digs hard to pull the hill up to Austell, where the NS Atlanta to Birmingham line runs parallel to the Atlanta to Chattanooga line. In the distance you can see a DPU unit on a train go... (more)

A beautiful sunrise reveals a silent scene at the south end of Norfolk Southern's Old Spencer Yard. Local power awaits its next assignment while a loaded coal train sits crewless with the Nickel P... (more)

A loaded ethanol train from Arthur, IA, bound for interchange with the CSXT at Chicago, IL, hit the detector at MP 257 at sunset. The train is working over the Dubuque Sub and is 247 mile from Haw... (more)

With less then 20 minutes till sunset the rails glow as a eastbound grain train kicks up a little dust.

FIR 51736 running to Leipzig in the last sun rays.

Northbound at high speed.

With the sun below the hills creating a spectacular sunset sky, two trains meet at the siding in Kumis on the former Virginian Railway. This was a great ending to a day following N&W 611's return ... (more)

A pair of former Santa Fe GP60Ms lead the eastbound Pasadena Local against the setting sun through Rancho Cucamonga. The train is nearing its final destination of Kaiser Yard in Fontana with 13 ca... (more)