The sun is just coming over some low clouds as a westbound pulls out of Murray Siding and heads for Glenwood.

NS train 883 rolls east a few miles west of Leipsic after sunset. This train is heading for Bellevue, OH, for next crew change. The 6806 was once was Conrail 5574, also is the last numbered SD60M ... (more)

A pair of NS units race their train across rural Illinois, and away from the setting sun.

With the sun nearly to the horizon, an eastbound CP train roars by the intermediate signals a few miles west of Brooten.

Northern Ontario sunset, ONR 121 arrived into Cochrane 15 minutes ago and is now backing into the yard to be tied up and service for the night for tomorrows run south as 122 to Toronto.

With a sunrise that should awaken some sleepy eyes on the early morning commute to Hoboken, train #46 crosses the valley as fog starts to form below.

Mere seconds after the sun set in the distance, an eastbound oil train nears Belgrade.

BNSF 7548 thunders through Sandcut as building storms fill the sky at sunset.

Sunrise at Sidney
A westbound Union Pacific coal train passes milepost 403 east of Sidney at 5:43 a.m. on July 11, 2008, under a spectacular Nebraska sunrise.

Some might think getting trains on the UP East-West main at sunset might be easy, well most days it isn't, but today I lucked out to have this eastbound Council Bluffs to Proviso freight train rol... (more)

Energy
A coal train passes an oil well during a beautiful sunrise south of Bill, Wyoming, on May 30, 2009.

A northbound BNSF coal train heads across a fill just south of Bill, Wyoming. The Powder River Basin is a great place to catch beautiful sunsets (and lots of coal trains).

Like the setting sun, the days for views like this for passengers, are fading fast. In the not too distant future, the Cascades fares will entitle passengers to views of Dupont, Lakewood and Sou... (more)

With heritage unit 184 in the lead, a 3 hour late Empire Builder flies west past Mt. Muller near the small town of Lake Park, MN.

An SD70ACe leads a manifest at sunset over a small creek near Westville on the Heavener Sub.