A local on the Santa Fe Clarkdale branch exits a tunnel on a very tight curve/ This is now the Verde canyon railway. Taken from our family friends airplane

A heavy EB stack train makes its way up the Abo canyon on a cool winter afternoon

Crazy Judah. Standing at the summit of Mount Judah along the crest of the Sierra Nevada's, one is left to wonder how a railroad could ever be built through these mountains. It all started w... (more)

Acheson-Ridley grain train G847 speeds west on the Edson Sub approaching Henry House with C40-8 2109 leading.

Wearing one of CP's new heritage liveries, CP SD70ACU 7015 gathers speed departing the east end of Ozada with Toronto bound train 100-24.

CP SD70ACU 7015 leads train 100-24 east on CP's Laggan Sub.

Wearing CP's new "Block" heritage scheme, CP SD70ACU 7015 leads Vancouver IMS-Toronto Yard train 100-24 east on CP's Laggan Sub just east of the siding at Exshaw.

A westbound BNSF stack train crosses Goat Lick Trestle along the Middle Fork of the Flathead River just east of Essex amid the golden colors of autumn in Montana’s Glacier National Park country ... (more)

While its not the best looking GEVO on the BNSF locomotive roster, I'll take it when you get great light and it might be the only freight you get all day. BNSF freight HPVODEN utilizes trackage ri... (more)

Norfolk Southern train 20R is well into the famous Horseshoe Curve with the Lehigh Valley heritage ES44AC leadingbrhe eastbound intermodal.

On my favorite stretch of mountain railroad in the country, a former "Pepsi Can" P32-8BWH leads Amtrak's northbound Coast Starlight past the former location of Cougar siding on the ex-So... (more)

BC RAIL COWL Returns!. Occasionally one of Canadian National's ex BCOL C40-8M s returns to home rails. Red-White-Blue BCOL4609 drops downgrade into Williams Lake, BC on point of train 570. ... (more)

A series of thunderstorms hammer the Denver Metro-Area dumping hail and heavy rain causing flash flooding as an eastbound UP ballast train descends the 2-percent grade on Big Ten Curve near Arvada... (more)

It is a wet muggy day near the coast of British Columbia. Mike Thomas is the Locomotive Engineer this day, as he brings train 571 north up the 2.2% grade in Cheakamus Canyon. A heavier rain can b... (more)

CN3203 leads a train up one of the longest mountain grades in North America. The grade is 2.2% with short sections that are steeper, and curves of 12 degrees! The train here is clinging to cliffs... (more)