Starting in 2009 the United States Department of Energy began a project to move the nation's largest pile of uranium tailings located just outside Moab. The tailings are a byproduct of the former ... (more)
A westbound Union Pacific passenger special crosses the Colorado River as it approaches Burns, Colorado, running over the Dotsero Cutoff on August 3, 2014. Powering the nine-car train is EMD SD70A... (more)
Snow and Sunrise
Spring Sunrise on the Joint Line. A poetic dance of warm and cool light from the imminent sunrise play in the atmosphere with the frozen and super cooled water vapor;... (more)
Daytime work windows for Montana Rail Link track gangs have made Mullan Pass west of Helena, Montana, a busy place late in the afternoon, as trains waiting out the curfew begin to move. As a westb... (more)