One of the two Alweg monorail sets glides through the Experience Music Project Museum at Seattle Center, Washington.

A view over the Driver's shoulder as one of the two Alweg monorail sets speeds north through Seattle, Washington.

904 awaits departure from King Street Station, Seattle, with a Sounder commuter train.

The view out onto Jalama Beach, California, from the observation car on Amtrak's southbound Coast Starlight.

A cable car crests California Street, Nob Hill, while working downhill towards Market Street, San Francisco, California.

A cable car pauses at the corner of Powell and California Streets, Nob Hill, while working uphill from Market Street, San Francisco, California.

The view from aboard a cable car climbing Hyde Street and passing another cable car near Fisherman's Wharf, en route to Market Street, San Francisco, California.

BNSF SD70ACe 9258 leads a southbound coal train over the Union Pacific mainline at Cheyenne, as an eastbound UP stack train awaits clearance through the yard.

A Metro Monorail set arrives in Paddys Market at dusk on a winter's evening. The Sydney Monorail was decommissioned less than two weeks later on June 30, and will be pulled down from August.

EMD RP40-2C locomotive C20 leads a short consist beneath the Royal Gorge Bridge. Around 900 feet or 280 metres of elevation separate the bridge and the train. The area around the bridge was decima... (more)

EMD RP40-2C locomotive C20 leads a short consist through the Royal Gorge. The train is only a few moments from passing beneath the famous Royal Gorge Bridge.

MP36PH-3C locomotive 104 pushes a set of double-deck coaches as the train approaches Santa Fe Depot with an evening commuter train from Albuquerque, New Mexico.

F40PH locomotives 237 and 295 await departure from the Grand Canyon with the daily return train back to Williams, Arizona.

Looking north along part of Union Pacific's abandoned Tennessee Pass route near Twin Lakes, Colorado.

Grand Canyon Railway 2-8-0 locomotive No.29, on display at the Williams depot, Arizona.