A crew member waits at the NSS Highland for the train to pull pass the switch before making their set out in the siding before heading north to Fort Collins.

In the morning fog, the Denver, CO to Fort Collins, CO Manifest pauses at Highland before they make their 20 car set out. A dusting of snow fell over night as well.

A Chicago and North Western eastbound, with a UP SD60M on the point, thunders underneath the imposing coaling tower at De Kalb, Illinois, at sunset on September 17, 1994.

In the woods of upstate New York remain the last active rails of the long abandoned New York, Ontario and Western. Emerging from the fog is the CSX local out of Fulton with two cars to be spotted ... (more)

A northbound lights up the right of way as the "Lady in White," the Boyce Norfolk and Western Depot stands ready to greet it. 2013 marks the buildings 100th birthday and a cookout and slideshow pr... (more)

Under an incredibly dramatic sunset, eastbound Q382 throttles up and enters the plant at West Deshler, where they'll cross over to main one to get around stopped traffic ahead. Just one of those "... (more)

A brisk drive over a mostly gravel portion of old Route 66 is needed to reach this rather isolated location on the BNSF Transcon, but certainly well worth it. Here we have one of countless stack t... (more)

Westbound coke train approaches the diamond at Leipsic just after sunrise.

The early morning hours of September 7th I found myself in the historic college hamlet of Shepherdstown. The Norfolk Southern *former Norfolk & Western Railway* H Line from Hagerstown, MD to Roano... (more)

When the sun goes down, there is a certain thrill about the shot. Sitting trackside at night, the stillness all around with a heavy fog beginning to set, there is the lone railfan waiting for the ... (more)

It's a starry night on the busy ex-N&W Pocahontas mainline as helpers sit patiently at Maybeury, W.Va., as a eastbound permeates the nighttime air while silhouetting the signals and foreground loc... (more)

An eastbound grain train glints the evening’s sunset as the train snakes along the Clark Fork between Thompson Falls and Eddy, Montana, on September 22, 2006. Like a golden spider web, a slide f... (more)

An eastbound auto rack train leaves behind one of Arizona's famed red sunsets.

Wyoming dawn
Sunrise on the Union Pacific main line east of Hillsdale, Wyoming, presents a westbound freight headed for a crew change at Cheyenne on the morning of March 26, 2008.

The nocturnal stillness is shattered by the roar of diesels in notch 8 as an Eastbound loaded coal train fights the Alleghany grade. This cantilever has faithfully served since the days of steam,... (more)