A couple of random night shots over the weekend...

Nice!  I wouldn't hang my head over those.

Very impressive. 

 

I am not a shutter bug but these look great to me, especially the shadow of the crossing gate cast on the side of the car body in the top picture. 

 

The bottom looks like the engine is slowing down after coming out of warp speed.

Thanks for the kind words.

The bottom shot was taken while pacing the train at about 40MPH in utter darkness, less than a mile from my front door. Don't worry, it was almost midnight on a country road with nobody on it but myself, a road I know like the back of my hand, on a long straight stretch. I took a series of shots without even looking through the viewfinder. For those techniques, I should be consider myself very lucky that I got 3-4 decent shots...