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BN 8164 West At Roggen, Colorado - 3/2000
  • Canon F1N, 300mm f4 + 1.4x teleconver, Fuji Provia 100F
  • A BNSF freight rolls off of Crest Hill just as the sun is disappearing over the horizon.
BN 9485 At Northport, NE - 8/1998
  • Canon F1N, Canon 50mm f1.4, Kodak E200
  • BN 9485 switches at the Northport car rebuilding facility as the daylight fades and the moon rises in the east.
BNSF 9908 Near Keensburg, Colorado - 6/2001
  • Fuji FP6900 Digital Camera, 35-210mm zoom.
  • The setting sun lights a fiery display on a distant thunderhead as a coal empty led by BNSF 9908 passes in the foreground.
Sunset At Highland, CO - 6/2001
  • Canon F1N, 135mm f2, Fuji Provia 100F
  • The setting sun highlights a string of hoppers waiting to be filled with barley at Highland, CO on the BNSF Front Range Sub.
Sunset near Toadstool Park, NE - 9/2000
  • Canon F1N, 50mm f1.4, Fuji Provia 100F
  • A high green clears the way for another of the many, many coal trains that trod the BNSF mainline north of Crawford, Nebraska.
Sunset At Antelope Creek Bridge, WY - 7/2000
  • Canon F1N, 28mm f2.8, Fuji Provia 100F
  • A beautiful sunset silhouettes a UP DPU unit on the rear of an empty coal train arriving at NACCO Junction.
Sunset At West Bill, WY - 7/2000
  • Canon F1N, 50mm f1.4, Fuji Provia 100F
  • The signal bridge at West Bill, WY stands sentinel to a incredible Wyoming sunset.
Sunset At Agate, Colorado - 2/2000
  • Canon F1N, 80-200mm f4L, Fuji Provia 100F
  • The setting sun is starlighted through the side windows of a UP SD40-2 at Agate, CO on a cold February evening.
Sunset At Agate, Colorado - 2/2000
  • Canon F1N, 80-200mm f4L, Fuji Provia 100F
  • The rear platforms of a pair of UP SD40-2 snoots are highlight by a Eastern Colorado sunset.
Sunset At Agate, Colorado - 2/2000
  • Canon F1N, 80-200mm f4L, Fuji Provia 100F
  • A UP SD40-2 is silhouetted by a beautiful sunset at Agate, Colorado. Yes, this is the same train as the previous 3 photographs, it was a work train tied down in the siding. I burned almost a whole roll of film on that one train and sunset. :-)
Sunset Near Pine Bluff, WY - 5/2001
  • Canon F1N, 80-200mm f4L, Fuji Provia 100F
  • A deep red glow develops at sunset behind thunderstorms as a UP freight approaches Pine Bluff, Wyoming.
Train, Windmill, And Sunset In Nebraska - 11/1999
  • Canon F1N, 35-105mm f3.5, Fuji Provia 100F
  • WARNING: This is a fake photograph, contrived in Photoshop! The windmill, sunset, and trees are real enough, but I added the train. What the heck, it makes for a nice photo. :-)




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