A pair of GE's lead a manifest, although mostly tank cars, past the Amtrak depot in Staples, MN as the sun approaches the horizon.

A gorgeous Nebraska sunset unfolds as an eastbound BNSF coal train rolls alongside a waiting westbound coal with a single ES44AC DPU.

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).

The OGEX Coal train holds at Santa Fe Jct. before heading west onto the BNSF.

Potash Branch by moonlight
The serpentine right-of-way of the Potash Branch is illuminated by the moon and an approaching Union Pacific train near Emkay, Utah, at 7:43 p.m. on March 4, ... (more)

CSXT 7673 sweeps past the attractive station at Gaithersburg with a westbound autorack train at 02:49. The lighting freezes the train sharply at what I estimated to be a speed of around sixty mph ... (more)

The sun is setting behind the town of Belgrade as a CP train rolls east.

In the midst of a spectacular Arizona sunset, a long eastbound manifest crawls it's way up the grade at Maine and to an elevation of over 7400 ft.

The summer sun rises as a single GE leads a baretable train east near Frazee.

30 minutes after sunset this eastbound train seems to be running from the light as it and the tree line behind it are silhouetted against the dusk sky.

A true, railroading town.. Serving as an important terminal for coal operations in the New River Gorge for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, Thurmond was a perfect definition of a railroading communi... (more)

Freshly repainted 4794 dwarfs everything around it leading another train of coal empties down the street at 00:34. Notice the new concrete panels over the track, and how well the tiny autos are p... (more)

As the sun starts to set across the Rocky Mountains, the Longmont Turn returns back to Longmont after picking up their train at Lyons and they are seen coming into the town of Hygiene.

Right on cue, as the sun sets on Verndale Rail 2012, an eastbound arrives in town to give the large contingent of railfans still gathered the chance to take a few glint shots. A few of them are v... (more)

Even a brief shower couldn't dampen the spirits of the railfans gathered for Verndale Rail 2012. Their commitment was rewarded with a rainbow at sunset as a westbound rolled through town.