Sunset, Train, Signals, Fire and Smoke

The Tropicana Juice train has just begun it’s long journey back to Florida with a train of empties out of the Bayonne terminal. After crossing Newark Bay, the train will pass under the flight pa... (more)

Restored San Francisco Municipal Railway PCC. Now owned by the Bay Area Electric Railroad Association and operated on their restored portion of the Sacramento Northern main line. 1016 is pictured ... (more)

Catching the last two minutes of sun on this fine spring day, BNSF 8295 leads an auto train west at Lyle, Washington. Gotta love the silver and red at sunset.

CN A416 heads through some foggy swamps west of Jasper as the sunrise hits the mountain peaks.

'He leadeth me beside the still waters'… part II. The last time I was at this overlook at Mississippi Palisades State Park last October, I captured a beautiful scene ( http://www.railpictures.n... (more)

As the sun sets behind the Wasatch Mountains, the constant battle against gravity continues as a train struggles up the 2.4% grade to the summit. Even with four big units up front and a DPU at the... (more)

An evening haze has formed in the NRG as westbound empties head for the coalfields.

99 7241 rounds the curve towards the summit station of the Brocken on the Harzer Schmalspurbahnen with the last train of the day from Wernigerode.

It's well after sunset the train will run all night working it's way to Marquette,IA and South to Savanna,IL and on to Chicago.

End of the day, and end of an era. MDmot luggage motorcars has been whitdrawn from daily service at the 12th of December, since then only one line is served with these units. In a few months almos... (more)

With a z-train hot on its heels (visible in the distance), a BNSF manifest begins its climb out of the San Joaquin Valley towards the summit at Tehachapi.

Train 5610 at sunset, near the town of Dupnitsa.