A westbound BNSF manifest crosses a causeway on Montana Rail Link along the Clark Fork on a crisp fall morning at sunrise near Trout Creek, Montana.

Winter wonderland... Navigating through a snow covered downtown St. Mary's (compliments of winter storm Hercules), Russell-Cumberland general freight CSX Q316 passes the quiet store fronts of this... (more)

Autumn gold to winter white
Mother Nature can’t decide what season to be in as an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe grain train descends Mullan Pass and curves over Montana Rail Li... (more)

Winter wonderland this morning due to the overnight storm with an empty oil train, Canadian Pacific #609 plowing the right of way at track speed.

At dawn, a manned helper set of SD40E's pops out of the New Portage Tunnel and heads down "The Slide" on the journey back to Altoona to help another train up the mountain. This is the steepest gra... (more)

Greg Klingler greets 9824 with the Holiday Train in tow with a wave as it crosses over a portion of the Hudson River onto Rogers Island in Fort Edward southbound at 04:32.

300 meter long test train with 4 RABe 526 "Flirt" articulated lowfloor trainsets of the Südostbahn is crossing the 97 meter high Sitter viaduct near St.Gallen.

Sections of the temporary panel track used to move the 4014 closer to the mainline are seen being disassembled here in preparation for re-assembly at the rear of the locomotive. After many hours ... (more)

Osier after dark. Free of the light pollution from modern civilization, the heavens above put on a spellbinding display over the old D&RGW water tank in Osier, Colorado. Backlighting by God... (more)

Just before sunup in frosty downtown Keystone, W.Va., NS's Interstate heritage unit shoves train No. 776 up Elkhorn Grade, with locomotives in notch-8, awakening the sleeping mining community on a... (more)

The beautiful Montana countryside is bathed in full moon light as an eastbound BNSF coal train streaks its way through Lombard Canyon and along the Missouri River on Montana Rail Link's 2nd Subdiv... (more)

On a cool, crisp October 2, 2013, an eastbound BNSF coal train passes Frog Pond west of Trout Creek, Montana. A campfire is finally showing some life after a pretty wet week in the Pacific Northwe... (more)

Unsure of how long they will see another setting sun as it appears these last 2 remaining units still proudly wearing their fallen flag name sit off in a siding by an abandoned grain elevator in A... (more)