BNSF 7216, eastbound at Essex, California, under stormy skies.

A westbound BNSF coal train passes through Barr, Colorado, at dawn on December 2, 2010. As the DPUs pass by, thin clouds are turning pastel shades of yellow, orange and red by a rising winter sun.

This remaining B&O tower at Leipsic gives us reminder of days passed. Guarding this diamond XN tower once protected the interlocking in conjunction with the Nickel Plate RR. Another days sun arise... (more)

Lightning streaks across the sky over the Florida East Coast double-track main lines during a severe thunderstorm. On average, 1,800 lightning strikes were recorded during a 30 minute period with ... (more)

Out of the most "uneventful" winter in the Puget Sound, comes a stunning sunset. Finally, passengers aboard the Cascades get to see something in the sky other than gray or black.

An early morning commuter train stops at Newark Broad St Station en route to New York which is in the distance.

As Q163 races west across the former B&O Chicago mainline, a fiery sunset sets the sky ablaze on a bitterly cold evening in the farmlands of northwest Ohio.

In the longest days of the year, the sun sets down the Aurora Sub between Milledgeville and Chadwick. One of these summer days in 1998, the sun is a red ball as it lights miles of track. If one co... (more)

A pig train under a star filled sky passing through the community of Castella at 8:00 PM nears its crew change point in Dunsmuir, a few miles north of here.

The Huron, SD, to Rapid City, SD, took off from Pierre today around 12:30. Here 4.5 hours later near sunset they are only 40 miles west of Pierre. The PRC is mainly all 10 mph due to track conditi... (more)

Shepherdstown, WV 12/1/12 - Moments before the sun breaks the horizon above the distant mountain range, the perfectly still waters of the Potomac River reflect northbound Norfolk to Detroit interm... (more)

A Union Pacific coal train is silhouetted against a beautiful Wyoming sky south of Bill, Wyoming. We were lucky that we had a sliver of clear sky underneath the clouds at sunset to help add some c... (more)

A leafless tree stands in stark contrast to the beautiful colors of a fall sunset as an eastbound Canadian Pacific train nears Belgrade, Minnesota.

Lerro Productions photo charter, C&T K-36 at sunrise on Hangman's Trestle.

Sunrise at the south end Deshler. This Toledo Sub still hosts lots of CPL signals and signal bridges. This is on the portion of the line between Deshler and Lima.