An eastbound BNSF coal train crosses Bridge 57 west of Trout Creek, Montana, on a damp January 25, 2020, day on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision. The Clark Fork is nice and wide (and deep) a... (more)

On February 19, 2002, a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight gets help from a pair of EMD SD40-2 pushers as it climbs the two percent grade at Coal Creek Canyon between Clay and... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight climbs through the horseshoe curve spanning the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon between Clay and Plainview, Colorado, on February 19, 2002.

Two Union Pacific taconite ore trains meet at the siding at Little Lake, Michigan, on January 19, 1997. UP operated this former C&NW ore route only a short time before Wisconsin Central, and event... (more)

Powered by a pair of EMD SD70ACes, Montana Rail Link’s Laurel to Missoula manifest freight climbs the 1.8 percent grade of Bozeman Pass west of Livingston, Montana, on the afternoon of June 23, 20... (more)

A Wisconsin Central welder has just lit off a thermite weld pot on the WC main line at Duplainville, Wisconsin, on March 23, 1996. A one-time-use form is attached to the rails surrounding the join... (more)

A Burlington Northern coal train heads east out of Glendive, Montana, headed for a climb over Beaver Hill into North Dakota on July 27, 1992. Four EMD SD60-series locomotive power the eastbound tr... (more)

Union Pacific GE AC4400CW-CTE No. 5914 leads an eastbound UP coal train into a snowy Crescent, Colorado, on the morning of January 5, 2005.

Union Pacific 2-8-0 No. 618 pulls a short freight train toward Heber, Utah, on the crisp morning of February 7, 2006. This winter photo freight was operated by the Heber Valley Railroad.

Union Pacific’s Denver to Grand Junction manifest freight crosses the fill over South Draw as it exits Tunnel 16 east of Crescent, Colorado, on the morning of March 30, 2002. Lead locomotive EMD S... (more)

At dawn, the magnificent Mission Mountains are dusted with snow as morning clouds flow over the peaks on September 23, 2008. Rumbling softly northbound through the scene is Montana Rail Link’s Pol... (more)

After crossing Utah’s Soldier Summit, an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight, powered by a quartet of GE C44-9Ws, passes a discarded old Ford Truck as it approaches Helper Yard... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific intermodal train departs Green River, Wyoming, after changing crews on the afternoon of March 10, 2004.

Passing through quintessential desert scenery beneath the Book Cliffs, Union Pacific LJP45 “dirt train” local approaches the junction to the Green River Subdivision main line at Mounds, Utah, on t... (more)

Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr winds its way through snow-covered evergreen trees at Crescent, Colorado, on the snowy morning of March 27, 2009.