Swiss cows and the cogwheel trains of the Brienz Rothorn Bahn can easily deal with the steep mountainside. Steamlocomotive H 2/3 # 14 "Stadt Brienz" is slowly running down with the first... (more)

Royal Gorge Route F7(A) CRRX 402, running alongside the Arkansas River, as seen from the Royal Gorge suspension bridge

The Royal Gorge Route! While not as lofty as the road Royal Gorge Bridge, the "hanging bridge" of the RR is perhaps more unique from an engineering perspective. When the Santa Fe buil... (more)

The Royal Gorge Route! The eastbound return trip to Canon City passes under the Royal Gorge Bridge and is dwarfed by the canon. The bridge was built in 1929 and serves no purpose other than tha... (more)

The Royal Gorge Route! Standing on the Royal Gorge bridge and watching a train navigate the serpentine route below is an awesome experience...as well as somewhat nauseating if you don't like he... (more)

The Royal Gorge Route! Standing on the Royal Gorge bridge and watching a train navigate the serpentine route below is an awesome experience...as well as somewhat nauseating if you don't like he... (more)

Looking down on the canyon walls, one can see four UP units lead an empty grain train from Kaiser, California to Soloman, Kansas along South Boulder Creek in Pinecliffe, Colorado on July 9, 2017.

Cogwheel steamlocomotive H 2/3 # 16 is shoving train 15 from Brienz up to the Brienzer Rothorn, with the Lake Brienz deep in the background. This view is from the top of the mountain.

Beautiful landscape in the Swiss Mountains: Two cogwheel train runs uphill from Grindelwald Grund (957m asl) toward Kleine Scheidegg (2016m asl, left in the backgound). The red train is waiting fo... (more)

IC 111 (Müchen-Klagenfurt) crosses from the lower to the upper Klammtunnel. The track goes straight across two solid granite blocks which are separated by this canyon, called Gasteiner klamm. Its... (more)

A Z train curves its way through Crozier Canyon on a hot summer's day

Look down from the top of Crozier Canyon, four GE locomotives negotiate the tight curves along the canyon walls as they hustle a mile of high priority intermodal cargo for San Bernardino.

A class 363 passes Crnotice as it makes it`s way down the mountain to the Port of Koper

An Sž class 541 approaches Črnotiče whilst pushing a freight train up the steeply graded Koper-Presnica line