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The Heavens above
Railroading at night with the Milky Way Galaxy, Northern Lights, Comets, Eclipses, or Rockets launched into space. (Psalm 19:1)
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Photo ID: 627986

The milky way rests above the skies of Delhi, Colorado as the historic mainline wig wag stands dormant over the southern Colorado grasslands. It has been recently rumored that this historic piece... (more)

Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: N/A
Location: Delhi, Colorado, USA
Locomotive #: N/A
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: August 22, 2017


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By: Nathaniel Holguin

Added: Aug 24, 2017

Views: 4,252
Comments: 4

Favorited: 40
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Photo ID: 627952

A fixed semaphore stands tall in the faint glow of the 2017 eclipse in totality.

Railroad: Rockton, Rion, & Western
Locomotive: N/A
Location: Winnsboro, South Carolina, USA
Locomotive #: N/A
Train ID: N/A
Photo Date: August 21, 2017


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By: Matthew DeLanghe

Added: Aug 23, 2017

People's Choice 2

Views: 9,401
Comments: 6

Favorited: 56
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Photo ID: 627749

Norfolk Southern's Andrews Yard in Columbia, South Carolina, was in the center of the path of totality for the total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017. NS 7697, a GE ES40DC, was in between assignm... (more)

Railroad: Norfolk Southern
Locomotive: GE ES40DC
Location: Columbia, South Carolina, USA
Locomotive #: 7697
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: August 21, 2017


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By: Norfolk Southern Corp

Added: Aug 22, 2017

Views: 8,663
Comments: 2

Favorited: 44
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Photo ID: 627695

A tiny sliver of the sun is visible in the sky overhead as the solar eclipse begins to recede and daylight returns amidst the afternoon. All is quiet at Melrose as the signal stands dark for the 1... (more)

Railroad: Norfolk Southern
Locomotive: N/A
Location: Melrose, North Carolina, USA
Locomotive #: N/A
Train ID: N/A
Photo Date: August 21, 2017


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By: Will Jordan

Added: Aug 21, 2017

People's Choice 3

Views: 8,112
Comments: 1

Favorited: 40
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Photo ID: 626729

Westbound freight rolls under the intermediate signal bridge at Fort Madison, Iowa as the Milky Way rises in the southern sky, silhouetting the endangered signals on a muggy, late summer's night.

Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: N/A
Location: Fort Madison, Iowa, USA
Locomotive #: Unknown
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: August 11, 2017


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By: Will Jordan

Added: Aug 13, 2017

Views: 1,997
Comments: 4

Favorited: 12


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Photo ID: 624656

The natural light from the starry sky lights up the iconic landmark in Californian railroading. A BNSF northbound is seen painting out the right of way while descending down the mountain and the T... (more)

Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: GE ES44DC
Location: Tehachapi Pass, California, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF
Train ID: BNSF
Photo Date: July 19, 2017


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By: Scott Allen Sparks

Added: Jul 28, 2017

Photo of the Week
People's Choice 1

Views: 11,294
Comments: 10

Favorited: 88
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Photo ID: 623937

Intermodal train passed the junction at Zidani Most: a station in the Y-shaped canyon where Savinja meets the Sava river. This is the station where the East mainline splits in two, one towards Hun... (more)

Railroad: Slovenske Zeleznice(SZ)
Locomotive: 363
Location: Zidani Most, Slovenia
Locomotive #: ----
Train ID: ----
Photo Date: July 17, 2017


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By: Károly Szélig

Added: Jul 21, 2017

People's Choice 3

Views: 5,349
Comments: 3

Favorited: 48
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Photo ID: 621558

Amid a railroad landscape that is constantly changing with modernization's to infrastructure or the restructuring of how obscure railroads operate, there's only one constant guaranteed in Appalach... (more)

Railroad: Norfolk Southern
Locomotive: N/A
Location: Ittman, West Virginia, USA
Locomotive #: Unknown
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: June 27, 2017


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By: Chase Gunnoe

Added: Jun 30, 2017

Views: 3,051
Comments: 2

Favorited: 30
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Photo ID: 615394

Under a partially lit Milky Way above, the slow progress of a BNSF intermodal working south up from Tunnel 1 to Bealville is seen in this 14 minute exposure. The train works up through tunnel 2, a... (more)

Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: GE ES44AC
Location: Tehachapi Pass, California, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF
Train ID: BNSF
Photo Date: May 02, 2017


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By: Scott Allen Sparks

Added: May 04, 2017

Views: 1,780
Comments: 0

Favorited: 21
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Photo ID: 614721

On a cold, windy night in spring, the beams of light from a southbound BNSF baretable train light up the landscape around the right of way in this 7.5 minute exposure, showing the train work from ... (more)

Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: GE ES44DC
Location: Tehachapi Pass, California, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF
Train ID: BNSF
Photo Date: April 26, 2017


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By: Scott Allen Sparks

Added: Apr 28, 2017

Views: 2,766
Comments: 3

Favorited: 20


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Photo ID: 612797

Photo made with a fisheye lens shot at the very north portion of Arnold Loop. In the distance is Pilot Peak. Two exposures were made and combined in Photoshop to capture the full range of light ... (more)

Railroad: Union Pacific
Locomotive: None
Location: None, Nevada, USA
Locomotive #: Not in photo
Train ID: None
Photo Date: April 02, 2017


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By: raildudemel

Added: Apr 10, 2017

People's Choice 2

Views: 8,434
Comments: 3

Favorited: 50
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Photo ID: 612796

The decapitated water tower of the Nevada Northern Railway at Cherry Creek Station is lit by the 6 day old waxing moon in a star filled Nevada desert Sky. No train has passed here in a very long ... (more)

Railroad: Nevada Northern Railway
Locomotive: None
Location: None, Nevada, USA
Locomotive #: Not in photo
Train ID: None
Photo Date: April 01, 2017


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By: raildudemel

Added: Apr 10, 2017

People's Choice 3

Views: 8,909
Comments: 4

Favorited: 52
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Photo ID: 611691

Lightning pops out of a distant thunderhead as the prairie winds carry it across the open plains while the beautiful center of our Milky Way Galaxy rises high above the New Mexico landscape and th... (more)

Railroad: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (ATSF)
Locomotive: N/A
Location: Wagon Mound, New Mexico, USA
Locomotive #: N/A
Train ID: N/A
Photo Date: July 03, 2016


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By: Will Jordan

Added: Mar 30, 2017

People's Choice 2

Views: 8,747
Comments: 8

Favorited: 73
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Photo ID: 610585

With very special thanks to David Blazejewski and Frank Keller - this has to be THE highlight photo of the trip and the one that was the goal. At 0116 hrs on March 14 - the early portion of our 4... (more)

Railroad: Alaska Railroad
Locomotive: EMD SD70MAC
Location: Summit, Alaska, USA
Locomotive #: ARR 4008
Train ID: ARR 130S (13)
Photo Date: March 14, 2017


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By: Kevin Burkholder

Added: Mar 20, 2017

Photo of the Week
People's Choice 1

Views: 26,053
Comments: 14

Favorited: 127
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Photo ID: 607478

Twenty-Seven and a half minutes elapse in this collection of four shots layered together as the Pennsy signal bridge at AR (Allegheny Range) stands tall against the backdrop of the swirling night ... (more)

Railroad: Pennsylvania Railroad
Locomotive: NA
Location: Gallitzin, Pennsylvania, USA
Locomotive #: NA
Train ID: NA
Photo Date: February, 2017


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By: Jon Wright

Added: Feb 21, 2017

Views: 3,743
Comments: 1

Favorited: 34
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