Wildfires illuminate the sky in the Shenandoah Valley as Norfolk Southern freight train 14Z heads north across the James River. Wildfires are extremally uncommon in the Valley, making this an extremely rare scene.
Landscape photography is difficult due to the challenge of combining good light and good scenery. Good railroad photography enters another level of complexity since it requires the first two while there is a train in view.
A continuously growing album of photos that IMHO reveal the awesome and seldom-seen beauty of the railroad world from the dimming of day to dawn's early light! From dusk to dawn, trains roll on! (I'm still finding gems of sunset-to-sunrise surprises!)