BNSF’s westbound manifest freight that operates on the Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision is westbound on the approach to Tunnel 1 east of Plainview, Colorado, on April 5, 1999. Leading the... (more)

A Union Pacific coal train drops off the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains as it goes through Arvada, Colorado, on February 9, 1999. Leading the way toward Denver’s North Yard is Chicago and Nort... (more)

Three empty coal trains file into the leads at Converse Junction, Wyoming, as a loaded train slowly creeps by in the background. These multiple tracks are the leads into busy Antelope Mine. The ra... (more)

The golden colors of autumn light up the hillsides above Tolland, Colorado, on the morning of October 1, 2008. Westbound Union Pacific MDVRO freight passes by as clouds roll off the Continental Di... (more)

Eastbound Canadian National train No. 412 passes through Hargwen, Alberta, on the morning of July 20, 2011. Leading the train is a fairly recently repainted General Electric C40-8M No. 2400.

An eastbound Union Pacific K-Line stack train cruises by Dale, Wyoming, over Track 1 on a beautiful September 17, 2008. Dale is a junction with Track 3 curving off to the left, a low-grade line UP... (more)

Union Pacific Shuttlewagon Mobile Railcar Mover No. CM-9601 switches some empty flatcars at the Laramie, Wyoming, welded rail plant on March 25, 2008. This particular model is a SWX430 with a 40,0... (more)

A westbound BNSF freight sweeps through Lombard Canyon east of Toston, Montana, on September 9, 2011.

San Luis and Rio Grande 2-6-0 No. 1744 has arrived in Alamosa, Colorado, with the La Veta passenger train on August 12, 2007. Surrounding the locomotive are some of SL&RG’s diesel fleet. Former LM... (more)

A westbound BNSF coal train passes through Barr, Colorado, at dawn on December 2, 2010. As the DPUs pass by, thin clouds are turning pastel shades of yellow, orange and red by the rising winter su... (more)

Canadian National train No. 304 crests the Continental Divide at Yellowhead Pass, British Columbia, on July 21, 2011. A pair of EMD SD75Is leads the eastbound train toward Jasper.

Nevada Northern 4-6-0 No. 40 pulls 4 boxcars and NN caboose No. 5 westbound at Adverse, Nevada, on the morning of February 4, 2007.

Out on the former Rio Grande main line through the Utah desert, a Union Pacific coal train rounds the big fill on Thompson Hill after sunset on March 4, 2012. The train is led by UP AC4400CW-CTE N... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific unit potash train is approaching Dale Junction, Wyoming, on Sherman Hill on September 17, 2008.

Union Pacific No. 3985 approaches Egbert, Wyoming, on a blustery October 9, 2008. The massive 4-6-6-4 locomotive is operating westbound on the Sidney Subdivision, returning to her home of Cheyenne... (more)