Three Dash 9s lead a stack train as they wait patiently at Longs Peak for the Longmont Switch to get up to Highland and clear up.

The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express is a rare guest on the Lötschberg line. Today it was scheduled to run via the Gotthard route, but since that line is closed for several weeks due to a landslide,... (more)

The Price River Canyon up the 2.4% grade to Soldier Summit is one of the biggest challenges in Western US Railroading. It is also one of the most scenic. Utah 5001 thunders up the grade near ... (more)

After making a stop at the Voorbaai yard which is to the left out of picture, the train is starting a long climb heading to Cape Town. Looking back across the bay is the town of Mossel Bay.

SP 335 crests Toponas Summit, formerly a helper district on the D&RGW's Craig Branch. Remanence of the wye for Phippsburg, CO based steam helpers is still visible. Flanked by the Flat Tops to the ... (more)

Two EMD products scream up the near 1% grade out of Minot, leading the L MON8821, aka Northgate Local, while crossing a swollen South Branch creek on a muggy and stormy Summer afternoon.

An empty coal train heads south along the high water levels near the headwaters of the Columbia River. Yep, that is the same Columbia River that flows through Washington State.

A beautiful Wisconsin day comes to an end as CP train 490 rolls eastbound at sunset just west of Watertown, WI.

How about this for railfan spot? Pretty nice huh? And a fine neighborhood ice cream stand right nearby too. I want to go back soon and hear those 90MPH trains slinging themselves across this 106 y... (more)

Montana Rail Link's Gas Local heads west near Donlan, Montana (just west of Toole), in the late afternoon. Donlan sits on MRL's 4th Subdivision between St. Regis, and Paradise. Typically, MRL's Ga... (more)

Winter sunset at Rawlins
An eastbound Union Pacific freight approaches West Rawlins, Wyoming, on the eve of February 8, 2007.

Six Alco RSD-15 "Alligators" lead Santa Fe's unit coal train from York Canyon, N.M. to Kaiser Steel Corp. at Fontana, Calif. around ATSF's horseshoe curves at Blanchard, N.M. on Sept. 15, 1968. ... (more)

Skies are starting to clear, just in time for four ex-Burlington Northern veterans to bring a heavy Ross Turn downhill into Berthold, rolling through the undulating terrain and emerald hills of We... (more)

Fog envelopes the town of Sandpoint and Lake Pend Oreille, as a westbound BNSF grain train makes its way across the "Funnel."