'Trains at Night' is a photo series that consists of large scale strobe lighting of trains in America's northeastern landscape. (William Gill)

Photographer William Gill brings locomotives to light in his stunning photo series on trains cruising through the night sky.

“Railroads are not particularly remote nor are they rare – they pass through most sizable towns in America. However, they have been pushed from the center of life to outside the periphery,” Gill says on his website.

Gill, who resides in Troy, N.Y., says he loves his town’s “industrial heritage,” which provides a perfect setting for his shoots.

“The trains at night project is a combination of my interest in photographing the industrial, built environment and capturing movement at night,” he explained on his site. “The experience of a train passing at night is captivating, with most of the landscape dark, my senses focus on the enormous river of iron rolling through the scene.”

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The hardest part of shooting at night is finding the perfect location, according to Gill, who spends the most time trying to find areas where there is a clear view of the tracks – a difficult feat in the tree-heavy Northeast.

Once he finds a location and has set up his camera and all of the lighting, it’s just a waiting game.

“The most boring part of the process is waiting for a train,” Gill told weather.com. “Sometimes lines are busy, featuring lots of trains. Other lines are quiet and only run one train a night!”

Gill tries to avoid shooting in windy conditions, so that his camera stand doesn’t blow over. He also avoids shooting in cold temperatures so that his camera equipment doesn’t become brittle.

“Fall is a great time to shoot,” he said. “It’s getting dark earlier, the bugs are gone, the ground is dry and it’s surprisingly warm at night.”

According to Gill, he’s met quite a few people out at night while he’s shooting.

“One night, a train stopped right where I was shooting. The engineer wanted to know where he could get a print of his train!”

To see more of Gill’s work visit his website and Facebook.