On the morning of August 13 I set out for the last silhouette shots of the year as the sun begins to rise further south. Arizona did not disappoint!

The first light of day appears on the eastern horizon as the Amtrak Lakeshore flies past the NYC bracket intermediates at Swanton. August 21, 2017 was eclipse day across America, but it was also s... (more)

The sun has set on another glorious summer day in Portland, OR as a Union Pacific manifest freight from Longview, WA to Hinkle, OR crosses the Columbia River Slough. A disinterested Blue Heron se... (more)

A southbound IC-3 railcar was shot on April 20th just as the sun was trying to break through the clouds....

November 16, 2014- the date which will forever mark the end of an era on Tehachapi. It was on this cool, fall evening that many original, Southern Pacific searchlights saw their last sunset as Uni... (more)

NS intermodal train No. 234 crosses the Ohio River into West Virginia a few minutes after sunset. Spring is well on its way to summer and while a few showers earlier in the week have left some exc... (more)

An eastbound train carrying a mixture of double stacks, trailers, and autos dims its lights for an oncoming westbound train near Homer as the sun provides another spectacular sunset along the Need... (more)

Silhouette at Miller Wash

A silhouette, twice as nice, with both Grand Canyon 2-8-0 #29 and 2-8-2 #4960. Photo ops abound at Miller Wash in Coconino County, AZ, some 36 miles north of Wi... (more)

Framed by a spectacular Central Coast sunset, Amtrak train no. 14, the northbound Coast Starlight, rumbles back to speed after a stop at a faulty crossing near Castroville, Cal. Vintage searchligh... (more)

CN 8886 and 2665 start to pull on their mixed freight just after sunrise in the farm fields of southern Ontario after waiting for room in Sarnia to open up.

Even though the day is just about over, the trains just keep on coming. A westbound covered hopper train races north (railroad west) through the small town of Rock River, Wyoming along Union Pacif... (more)

Another day has ended as a westbound covered hopper train with an SD70ACe DPU races into the small town of Rock River, Wyoming along Union Pacific's Laramie Subdivision on November 19, 2016.

Filled by the sound of howling dynamics and the warm colors of a desert sunrise amidst the crisp mountain air another morning dawns at the foot of the Tehachapi Mountains meeting an eastbound BNSF... (more)

"Silver Meteor" headed north just before dawn