CN ES44DC 2278 lifts a light Q101 into Jasper, half a mile west of English on CN's Edson Subdivision.

A417 makes a lift out of the south yard in Jasper as the elk go on about their business. Pyramid Mountain provides the backdrop.

Minutes after a crew change at Minturn, the OANSF meets brilliant fall foliage on the ascent to 10,424 ft. Tennessee Pass on Sept. 26, 1996.

A lengthy Switcher pulled by two ex-Milwaukee GP9's tiptoes across Benewah Trestle on the way to Plummer for interchange with UP. This trestle is on the old Milwaukee Road mainline.

The westbound Paradise Local rumbles downriver toward its home base with a string of empty lumber cars, passing some small rapids on the Clark Fork River near Quinns.

On a beautiful summer afternoon in Alberta, VIA Rail’s train No. 2, the eastbound Canadian, rolls through Robertson’s Curve at Swan Landing on July 7, 2014. The 21-car stainless steel streamli... (more)

VIA Rail Canada's (Jasper) Santa train accelerates westward on CN's Albreda Sub. Using the equipment from the Skeena and an additional two coaches, a volunteer VIA Rail crew will operate this trai... (more)

After stoping at Palmer Lake CO to cut off manned pushers BNSF 9014 is just getting under way on it's southward journey on the morning after an April snowshower.

The DP's on a northbound BNSF coal empty dutifully follow their train through a winter wonderland at Palmer Lake

With the sunlight fading fast at the end of a long summer day, a westbound oil train navigates the Kootenai River Gorge between Katka and Crossport at the northernmost location on BNSF's entire No... (more)

Due to spring flooding in North Dakota that washed out portions of BNSF's mainline, several high priority intermodal trains were temporarily rerouted over MRL. On an early July morning, a detourin... (more)

Canadian Pacific’s northbound wayfreight departs Wasa, British Columbia, and crosses the Kootenay River. Lead locomotive No. 5961 was the first SD40-2 painted in the “Golden Beaver” scheme.

A westbound Canadian Pacific grain train departs Field, British Columbia, on September 23, 2013, passing a hghly-reflective mountain lake on the west end of the yard.

By 1982, the candy cane version of CP Rail's color scheme was becoming a somewhat rare treat. Here good fortune led to a candy cane on the point, and sunlight in February in the Fraser Canyon as a... (more)

CP 5806 leads a quintet of SD40/SD40-2s on the point of a unit train in fresh snow at Ruskin, B. C. The train is most likely loaded with sulfur for export at Vancouver. CP handles numerous coal tr... (more)