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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: 663735

Summer nights in the New River Gorge... With the milky way overhead, eastbound export coal loads slice through the darkness at Claremont along CSX's New River mainline in southern West Virginia. T... (more)

Railroad: CSX Transportation (CSXT)
Locomotive: N/A
Location: Claremont, West Virginia, USA
Locomotive #: Unknown
Train ID: Unassigned
Photo Date: July 08, 2018


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By: Chase Gunnoe

Added: Jul 09, 2018

Screener's Choice
People's Choice 4

Views: 7,936
Comments: 1

Favorited: 31
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Photo ID: 632580

An old crossbuck sign is lit by nothing but the Milky Way galaxy.

Railroad: Untitled
Locomotive: Crossbuck
Location: Galesburg, Illinois, USA
Locomotive #: Unknown
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: July 27, 2017


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By: Dave Zeman

Added: Oct 02, 2017

Views: 1,305
Comments: 0

Favorited: 8
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Photo ID: 631637

Railroad: RZD (Rossiyskye Zheleznye Dorogi)
Locomotive: 2TE10U
Location: Morshansk, Russia
Locomotive #: -
Train ID: -
Photo Date: September 19, 2017


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By: arvican

Added: Sep 24, 2017

Views: 1,615
Comments: 0

Favorited: 19
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Photo ID: 631614

The Clinchfield signals at Elkhorn City shine their colors into the night as the Milky Way twinkles dimly overhead.

Railroad: CSX Transportation (CSXT)
Locomotive: N/A
Location: Elkhorn City , Kentucky, USA
Locomotive #: N/A
Train ID: N/A
Photo Date: September 23, 2017


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By: Will Jordan

Added: Sep 24, 2017

Views: 3,332
Comments: 2

Favorited: 32
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Photo ID: 630851

On a cool, summer, night along Arizona's high country, the milky way is shining bright over the dark sky. In the mist of the peacefulness of a quiet desert, a BNSF intermodal train slowly rolls up... (more)

Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: GE ES44DC
Location: Valentine, Arizona, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF 7486
Train ID: Q ATGLAC6 20L
Photo Date: August 23, 2016


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By: David Carballido-Jeans

Added: Sep 18, 2017

Views: 2,300
Comments: 0

Favorited: 15


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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: 4,432
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: 9,607
Comments: 6

Favorited: 57
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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: 8,870
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: 8,378
Comments: 1

Favorited: 41
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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: 2,098
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: 11,609
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: 5,588
Comments: 3

Favorited: 49
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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: 3,124
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: 1,843
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: 2,963
Comments: 3

Favorited: 20
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