Springtime in the Rockies
Amtrak train No. 5, the California Zephyr, climbs up the 2 percent grade between Tunnels 8 and 10 west of Plainview, Colorado, on the morning of June 8, 2013. ... (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 a rising winter sun.

Nevada Northern 4-6-0 No. 40 hauls a short freight over Steptoe Creek fill near East Ely, Nevada, at sunrise on February 4, 2007.

A unit oil train is framed through the empty window of an abandoned Sinclair gas station along old U.S. 30 through James Town near Green River, Wyoming, on the afternoon of March 12, 2012. Sunset ... (more)

A Canadian National intermodal train curves through Black Canyon of the Thompson River near Ashcroft, British Columbia, on June 25, 2006. Powering the westbound train through the spectacular scene... (more)

With a conductor waving from the steps of the caboose (actually, signaling the engineer), a westbound (southbound) Nevada Northern freight powered by two Alcos glints on Steptoe Creek fill near Ea... (more)

An A-B-B-A set of EMD F9s of LTV Mining Company (former Erie Mining Co.) exit Cramer Tunnel with an empty taconite ore train and curve by some of Minnesota’s autumn color on September 24, 1994.

In a view from the famous Bear Mountain Bridge, a southbound Conrail stack train crosses Popolopen Creek Bridge at Fort Montgomery, New York, on April 14, 1991. Two EMD SD50s, Nos. 6739 and 6831, ... (more)

A Burlington Northern freight heads west through the scenic Badlands of North Dakota at Sully Springs on the afternoon of June 29, 1994. Leading the train is a former Southern Railway GP30 rebuilt... (more)

Montana Rail Link F45 No. 391, on the point of MRL’s LM freight, glints off the still waters of the Missouri River in Lombard Canyon, Montana, on the afternoon of September 11, 1995. The train h... (more)

Sunrise on January 23, 2005, sees a westbound Union Pacific coal train climbing out of Leyden, Colorado, at mile 14.5 on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision.

A long Union Pacific freight pulled by two SD90MAC-H 6000 horsepower locomotives ascend Tehachapi Loop, California, on March 28, 2001.

Sunrise at Sidney
A westbound Union Pacific coal train passes milepost 403 east of Sidney at 5:43 a.m. on July 11, 2008, under a spectacular Nebraska sunrise.

A westbound Rio Grande freight passes the site of Keeldar siding on the eastern approach to Tennessee Pass, Colorado, on May 24, 1991. The Continental Divide is in the background and still has an ... (more)

Late morning silhouette
Nevada Northern 2-8-0 No. 93 pulls a short freight over Steptoe Creek fill near East Ely, Nevada on a cold February 8, 2004. NNRy operates these special photo tr... (more)