Canadian National train No. 112 snakes along the shore of the Athabasca River and soon will exit Jasper National Park east of Park Gate, Alberta, on July 12, 2014. The train is about to enter Brul... (more)

Amtrak No. 5, the westbound California Zephyr, is about to thread 78-foot Tunnel 29 east of Pinecliffe, Colorado, on March 2, 2006.

Canadian National train No. 303 passes Windy Point along Jasper Lake west of Devona, Alberta, on the afternoon of July 10, 2014.

Montana Rail Link’s Paradise local rumbles west with 16 cars along a perfectly calm Clark Fork west of Eddy, Montana, on September 18, 2012.

Led by Canadian Pacific SD40-2 No. 6036, CP’s northbound wayfreight between Cranbrook and Golden is backing up the spur at Skookumchuck, British Columbia, to serve a large paper mill located the... (more)

The westbound California Zephyr (train #5) is about to enter tunnel #1 on the Moffat Route.

The morning fog is just lifting as the westbound Rio Grande Zephyr clears Tunnel 1 and makes its final assault on the Rockies. The next passenger train to traverse this line, after the main line i... (more)

Freshly painted 6820 leads two sister SD40-2s and a pair of Santa Fe SD45-2s east towards Marias Pass on a pleasant fall day.

Canadian National train No. 104 crosses Prairie Creek Bridge at Hinton, Alberta, on the morning of July 19, 2013.

Amtrak train No. 5, the westbound California Zephyr, exits Tunnel 8 and curves around the former location of Tunnel 9 on a 2 percent grade through the tunnel district west of Plainview, Colorado, ... (more)

BN 2701 and two more GP39-2s roll a westbound TOFC train through St. Regis, Montana along the Clark Fork en route to Spokane and Seattle/Portland. This train is operating on the former Northern Pa... (more)

My wife Katie holds our 6-month old Beagle Riley, as they watch Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr climb the two-percent grade toward Big 10 Curve west of Rocky, Colorado, on April 22, 2006. W... (more)

The final minutes of sunlight hit the rails in Paradise as an empty unit grain train begins its journey over Montana Rail Link's 10th Subdivision. In the distance, the Paradise Local is busy switc... (more)

Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr climbs the front range of the Rocky Mountains through an early snowfall at Plainview, Colorado, on October 26, 2006.

Tennessee Pass Line under a full moon nearly 18 years after the last revenue train traversed the line in 1997.