On sunny July day, City of Prineville Railway Former Milw GP-20 # 989 leads a short train across the central Oregon country side,on their way from Prineville Oregon, to Prineville Jct, near Redmo... (more)

1918-1966 Rains was one of the closely settled coal camps that ran together and was mined by Liberty Fuels. There was a time this area north of helper produced 300 coal cars a day of coal from se... (more)

With some Deere on the head end, Santa Maria Valley's Town Job heads toward Betteravia with its 70-tonner #80 doing the honors. The flat with tractors will be parked at the team track in Betteravi... (more)

MRL 4306 leads a helper set downgrade and back to Livingston to get ready for the next shove up the hill.

A short SLRG freight is north of Monte Vista as it waits for a local customer to finish loading several grain cars before the train can return to Alamosa.

There was a time when the Utah County community of Springville was a rural area with fields of alfalfa and farm animals along the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. 24 years ago, Rio Grande's R... (more)

After setting out one load and picking up two empties at the old Spanish Fork Sugar Factory, the LJL41 local heads east along the former D&RGW Tintic Branch. The last car on the train, a flat car ... (more)

The tractor makes it grow and the SLC brings it to market. South Central Colorado might seem like an odd place for such a relationship to exist, but it plays out everyday at above 7,000 feet here ... (more)

Often forgotten amidst the jaw-dropping images of glistening world-class passenger trains or 6-packs of shiny SD70MACs leading coal hoppers or Geep-led freight trains all running in overwhelmingly... (more)

Rio Grande's Provo Switcher rambles slowly through farm fields with 11 cars of Moroni turkey feed for transloading to semi trucks at Spanish Fork Sugar Factory. Today this rural retreat hosts a bi... (more)

With three loads of grain for the elevator at Elberta, Rio Grande train #668 rambles slowly through Utah's rural Goshen Valley on the Tintic Branch. It appears the tiny little train has the full a... (more)

Alfalfa hay season is in full swing in this agriculture-rich southern portion of Colorado as SLRG FP10 #1100 is seen working the Monte Vista Turn as it slows for the yard limits in Monte Vista. Ju... (more)

Pushing hard on the throttle south out of Spangle, the '16 startles a few ponies.

A Santa Maria Valley train from Guadalupe to Santa Maria is seen crossing a farmer's field near Iremel on its way to Carr.

Union Pacific's Cache Valley Local rolls north through fields of new alfalfa, leaving behind the town of Richmond, Utah. Today's 11 car train will soon cross the Idaho state line on it's 26 mile j... (more)