It's Christmas Eve and my last train before CP shuts down for the Christmas holiday was a beauty: an SD30C-ECO (CP 5019), a GP20C-ECO (CP 2203) and a GP38 (CP 3020) lead train 499 out of a nice su... (more)

Heading toward Barstow, a westbound BNSF stack train slinks through the curves at Ludlow, California, catching the last few rays of sun on the beautiful Mojave Desert spring day of March 10, 2005.

A Dash 9 DPU brings up the rear of a westbound manifest drifting downgrade toward Dilworth Yard, kicking up plenty of snow in its wake on a cold December evening.

It's just after sunrise as a westbound empty coal train makes its way west towards the Moffat Tunnel through Rocky just west of Denver on November 15, 2013.

Golden hour! Under the sunset, AMT 1352 leads the AMT #810 as it pass the CN Southwark yard. You can see a part of Montreal downtown, and the "Mont-Royal" mountain in background. ... (more)

It's just after sunrise as a westbound Public Service of Colorado empty coal train slowly makes its way through Barber's Gulch west towards the Moffat Tunnel just west of Denver.

Clean paint glints the low Colorado sunlight well as the BNSF test train is switched in preparation for the next day's activities.

The sun is about to duck behind the mountains as this Dash 9 helps shove this Laurel to Denver Manifest towards Boulder and eventually Denver.

The Kiyevsky station (Russian: Киевский вокзал, Kievskiy vokzal) is one of the nine main railway stations of Mos... (more)

The sun rises over Bellevue and when it goes higher it changes the colors of the shining rails it touches, here a kind of coppery gold.

An Amtrak HHP-8 leads a southbound train over the Susquehanna River Bridge as a new day dawns.

Four class 10E1 heavy haul electrics speed through Hamelfontein junction into the setting sun, returning empty hoppers from Ermelo to one of the coal mines around Witbank.

The sun peaks through for a brief moment as this mixed freight heads west towards Calgary. This would be pretty much the only sunlight seen all day on this the shortest day of the year. How glorio... (more)

BNSF 693 leads a bare table through Sandcut.