A rising sun is filtered in thin clouds as the westbound Rio Grande Ski Train climbs upgrade out of Leyden, Colorado, on December 30, 2000. Leading the train this morning is Rio Grande EMD GP60 No... (more)

The Rio Grande Ski Train curves out of Tunnel 29 east of Pinecliffe, Colorado, on the afternoon of June 17, 2000. This summer edition of the train operating a round trip from Denver to Winter Park... (more)

Sand and exhaust spews from the GP9s powering the Montana Rail Link’s Paradise local as it backs its train out onto the Fourth Subdivision main line at Woodlin east of Thompson Falls, Montana, aft... (more)

A westbound BNSF freight crosses the massive bridge over a frozen Cut Bank Creek at Cut Bank, Montana, on December 22, 2007. In 1900, predecessor Great Northern Railway built this steel bridge to ... (more)

I really dislike graffiti on railroad equipment, and don’t make a point of specially-recording any of it in a photograph. But once in a blue moon a car will go by that catches my attention. On Feb... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific coal train drops downgrade out of Pinecliffe, Colorado, as it crosses South Boulder Creek and approaches Tunnel 29 on July 29, 2000.

The crew has arrived as the power for Montana Rail Link’s Paradise Local waits across the main line from the Paradise depot on the morning of September 22, 2006. After a little more paperwork, and... (more)

A trio of Union Pacific GE AC4400CW locomotives lead a coal empty upgrade through Clay, Colorado, on the afternoon of May 23, 2000.

Cresting the top of Montana’s Winston Hill on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision east of Helena is a westbound BNSF coal train on the afternoon of July 2, 2018.

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight climbs the grade on Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision approaching Tolland, Colorado, on February 21, 2000.

Canadian Pacific’s Royal Canadian Pacific luxury passenger train weaves along the Kicking Horse River as it descends toward Golden between Palliser and Glenogle, British Columbia, on the afternoon... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific Office Car Special operating for the Board of Directors passes through colorful Red Canyon along the Colorado River between Dell and Range, Colorado, on September 28, 200... (more)

Colorado Highway 72 is a bit slick this morning, with Coal Creek Canyon covered in a nice coat of snow on this late winter morning of March 2, 2002. Circling the big curve is the Rio Grande Ski Tr... (more)

In a view from the cab of trailing unit EMD GP39CLC No. 505, eastbound Copper Basin Railway’s OT-1 ore train is about to thread Tunnel 2 near Ray Junction, Arizona, on April 20, 2017.

Union Pacific’s MRODV (Roper Yard in Salt Lake City to Denver) manifest freight drops downgrade led by a colorful locomotive set at Plainview, Colorado, on the afternoon of September 3, 2000.