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CN C40-8 2100 and saggy sister C40-8M 2405 cruise towards Jasper with an extra section of train 191.

"EVENING SHUFFLE" An evening shower passes to the north near the famed Mason Dixon Line on Norfolk Southern's Lurgan Branch on May 22, 2015. NS local K80 with 3383, an ex Conrail SD40-2 leading shuffles cars from Greencastle, PA to Hagerstown, MD for pick up.

Winchester and Western GP38-2 2197 glides on the rails of the former Cumberland Valley Railroad approaching milepost 99 seen in the distance. The train is in the midst of about 5 miles of straight tangent rails between Pikeside and Inwood. The milepost marks 99 miles in distance to Harrisburg, PA. For this and other "Night Visions" please visit my site at thewrightphotographyofthings.com/galleries/night-signals

The Leviathan, part of the traveling Lincoln Funeral Train exhibit, pulls an excursion train over a section of the old Lorain & West Virginia line outside of Wellington, Ohio

MSR&LHA held it's 2015 Railfan Weekend May 15 through 17 at Cass Scenic RR State Park in Cass WV and over the Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad.

UP's Potash Local heads south to the mine on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend behind a pair of clean GP40-2s and 12 cars. The eight empty covered hoppers will be dropped at the mine and the local will return to Grand Junction behind the two GPs and four empty tank cars previously picked up at Brendel.

Eastbound grain empty's pass through one of the more scenic locations on Marias Pass.

Union Pacific ES44AH no. 8262 is one of six units that are currently helping hold back this West Elk Mine, Colo., to Blue Island, Ill., loaded coal train down the 2% grade in Coal Creek Canyon just west of Denver.

Moore, Keppel & Company Climax No. 3 steams out of the woods following a water stop near Durbin, West Virginia

A pair of former Santa Fe GP60Ms lead the eastbound Pasadena Local against the setting sun through Rancho Cucamonga. The train is nearing its final destination of Kaiser Yard in Fontana with 13 cars in tow as it dances around an array of Metrolink commuter traffic.

Streetcar steamlocomotive G 2/2 # 4 "Rimini" of the Ferrovie Padane/Italy, built in 1900 by Krauss/Germany, entering Chamby station with car B # 7 of the Nyon-St-Cergue-Morez (NStCM), with train 427 from Blonay. # 4 ran on the line Ferrara-Podigoro first, later between Rimini and Novafeltria.

It’s morning rush hour as four CTA trains are in view near the State and Lake St. station in Chicago.

It is hard to believe this has been almost two years ago. The PRR heritage unit was on a Northbound mixed freight coming off the Youngstown Line and joining the Fort Wayne Line. Passing a Conrail work caboose in New Brighton, Pennsylvania on the 17th of August 2013.

Moore, Keppel & Company Climax No. 3 rounds a curve near Durbin with engineer Earl Knoob at the throttle.

Slithering through lower gum field, Shay No. 4 eases into a tunnel of green foliage on its descent to the switchbacks with a work train in tow.

Like a snake in the grass, here we see Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief #3 as it slowly negotiates the twists and turns of Apache Canyon, on a warm and sunny mid-spring afternoon. Coming in at a length of roughly 1,000 feet, the train is only slightly shorter than the canyon itself.

A man and his horse take pause by Northern Central's 4-4-0 steam engine. Though most might try their best to exclude spectators from a scene such as this, I elected to let them stay and include them into the composition. They appeared happy to comply.