Snowing at Bridge 57
BNSF GE ET44C4 No. 3943 leads an eastbound unit oil train across the Clark Fork on Bridge 57 west of Trout Creek in a Montana snowstorm on February 6, 2021. Interes... (more)

An eastbound BNSF grain train sails across Bridge 62 spanning the inlet of Swamp Creek into the Clark Fork at Tuscor, Montana, on the crisp morning of October 5, 2020.

Shoving on the pellets
A Wisconsin Central “all-rail” taconite ore train has almost made it over the top of Bryon Hill as a manned pusher set out of North Fond du Lac leans into the ... (more)

It’s 7:11 p.m. on June 21, 2023, as the Deseret Power Railway coal empty returning from the Bonanza power plant in Utah approaches milepost 17 and Midway, Colorado.

It’s almost 6 p.m. on a cool Montana winter eve at Trout Creek on February 5, 2023. A trackside fire helps warm us up a bit as the “blue hour” descends upon the Clark Fork River Valley. The ... (more)

BNSF’s Laurel to Denver priority freight (HLAUDEN) exits 177-foot Tunnel 4 between the sidings of Dornick and Piper while negotiating Wyoming’s rugged Wind River Canyon on June 25, 2023.

Chicago’s Iconic Tunnels. CN train L536 crawls through Downtown Chicago with IC 1000, the “class unit” IC SD70 leading a CN SD75I and SD70M-2. They are seen here tip toeing under the ... (more)

The sights and sounds of a summer thunderstorm have been silenced by the powerful roar of EMD and GE prime movers as they grind away on wet steel rail. Over 17,000 tons of North Antelope Mine coal... (more)

A massive wall cloud has filled the sky overhead, bringing wind and driving rain to Peru Hill, Wyoming, as another Union Pacific freight works westbound up the grade and into the rapidly advancing... (more)

Montana Rail Link EMD GP35 No. 404 heads up the Harrison branch light engine to retrieve a pair of empty fertilizer cars at the Harrison Elevator on June 27, 2023. To the southwest in the backgrou... (more)

M Train Works The Yard | Having just stopped at the yard office to pick up some paperwork, southbound CPKC manifest train M262 moves forward toward the south end of Watts siding in Watts, O... (more)

Passanger train from Nova Gorica

The engineer is steady on the throttle (making for great audio) between Coldwell and Marathon with several 30mph curves and numerous grades thru this rocky region. CP SD40-2's 6012 + 5871 head eas... (more)

CP 9731 shoves CPKC 112-22 over the Ottertail River, on the aptly named Mountain Sub

BNSF’s Laurel to Denver freight rolls between river’s edge and the imposing rock walls of Wyoming’s scenic Wind River Canyon between the sidings of Minnesela and Dornick on June 25, 2023.