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Montana Rail Link’s Laurel to Missoula manifest freight curves through the west end of Elton siding east of Livingston, Montana, on the afternoon of July 9, 2022. The trai... (more)

Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr climbs the two percent grade up the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains west of Denver, Colorado, on October 12, 2022. The train is approaching Big 10 Curve b... (more)

A pair of LMX GE B39-8s power an eastbound Burlington Northern freight train along the Mississippi River at Victory, Wisconsin, on October 12, 1991.

Canadian National train 348 has made it to the top of Byron Hill south of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on the morning of July 31, 2005. The train, led by EMD SD50F cowl No. 5444, will meet a northbound... (more)

An eastbound BNSF loaded coal train rumbles along the Missouri River approaching Clarkston, Montana, on October 2, 2022, led by BNSF EMD SD70MAC No. 9702, a former BN locomotive, along with BNSF H... (more)

Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 No. 5401 aims its nose west in the afternoon sun at the Colorado Railroad Museum at Golden on October 20, 2022. The Tunnel Motor still retains its former Rio Grande Aspen go... (more)

Rio Grande EMD GP30 No. 3011 sits in the afternoon sun at the Colorado Railroad Museum at Golden, Colorado, on October 20, 2022. The locomotive was recently repainted and looks quite nice!

A couple of the employees and volunteers at the Colorado Railroad Museum recently repainted Rio Grande EMD GP30 No. 3011 as seen at Golden, Colorado, on October 20, 2022. It looks so nice compared... (more)

The Rocky Mountaineer climbs toward Tunnel 1 just east of Plainview, Colorado, on the morning of October 19, 2022. With evergreens dominant on much of Colorado’s Front Range mountains, fall colo... (more)

At the end of a clear day in Powder River Basin, a southbound Union Pacific coal train heads for home rails south of Bill, Wyoming, on July 8, 1999. Just for the record, this is a Kodachrome 64 sl... (more)

Burlington Northern’s local to Kalispell is about to cross the Pioneer Road grade crossing as it departs La Salle, Montana, on a snowy November 1, 1991. This branch runs from Columbia Falls to K... (more)

Santa Fe EMD GP40X No. 3801 rests in the afternoon sunshine of August 30, 1986, at the railroad’s locomotive facility at Corwith Yard in Chicago, Illinois. Flared radiators are a feature of the ... (more)

Montana Rail Link EMD SD40-2XR (a rebuilt SD40) No. 264 and EMD GP9 No. 109 pull eight cars up Winston Hill out of Townsend, Montana, on the afternoon of September 29, 2022.

A quartet of Rio Grande Tunnel Motors bask in the lights of the fuel track at Union Pacific’s Helper Yard locomotive facility on the eve of July 26, 2002.

After picking up interchange from the Pend Oreille Valley Railroad at Sandpoint, Idaho, BNSF’s Sandpoint local departs at West Boyer on September 26, 2021. This Sunday version of the local is po... (more)