The Denver-Roper manifest grinds upgrade at Tunnel One in Coal Creek Canyon. The steep 2% grade here is evident as the train heavy with Pueblo steel products blasts towards the first Tunnel on t... (more)

BNSF5888 lifts a Centailia, WA bound coal load over Skyline Trestle. The bridge is a favorite photo location for railfans visiting the pass. My favorite time to visit is at last light, like on th... (more)

Tunnel 40—all 63 feet
Amtrak No. 6, the eastbound California Zephyr, curves along the Colorado River through Tunnel 40 in Little Gore Canyon west of Azure, Colorado, on August 21, 201... (more)

Steam rises into cold air as fog has just about burned off on the morning of October 2, 2014. Silence is broken on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision when eastbound BNSF MSPOLAU (Spokane to ... (more)

MRL404 built in 1964 for the Rio Grande, is no stranger to mountain climbing. Here the 50 year old Geep roars up the the 1.8% slope of Bozeman pass.

The northward CP wayfreight crosses the Kootenay River at Fort Steele, British Columbia. It was great to see several different paint schemes on CP's SD40-2s during my visit. Even the weather coope... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe train No. 15 curves westbound through Marias, Montana, on October 9, 1996. Powering the train is a pair of BN Cascade green EMD SD40-2s bracketing a GE B30-7A “B uni... (more)

With fall colors occurring so early in the season in Alaska I was able to get a second go round on my trip to British Columbia as seen here as the southbound CP Way Freight rolls along the shores ... (more)

CN train 105 heads west across the Swan Landing causeway and will meet train 416 at Swan Landing before continuing west to Jasper, AB for a crew change. The late afternoon scene featured total cal... (more)

Amtrak train no. 5, the California Zephyr winds around curves above Big Ten and heads into tunnel 1 on the climb out of Denver up the Front Range of the Rockies. At this time Amtrak was attempting... (more)

The view from beside I-90 on the top of Bozeman Pass is breathtaking as a Roberts Bank coal load prepares to enter the tunnel at the summit of the previously mentioned mountain pass.

A westbound Canadian Pacific exits Gladwin tunnel as it heads downhill out of the Painted Canyon.

SD40-2s in the Southern Interior: A trio of Canadian Pacific SD40-2s, two of which still sporting the "Multimark" that was first introduced in 1968, rolls across the Kootenay Rive... (more)

The waters of the Clark Fork River gently flow below, and the occasional celebratory remarks of a fisherman on the rivers edge behind me fill the calm mountain air, until 60 cylinders and 10,800 h... (more)