Vancouver Bound A late afternoon westbound CN manifest heads towards Vancouver with a smallcut of copper ore near the head-end. The trains here run directional with westbound running on the... (more)

Rocky Rocky Mountaineer running on CPKC track slows to give passengers a nice view of the Fraser River. Above a CN manifest crosses over Rocky on the high CN bridge at Cisco, BC. This is ... (more)

Heritage Celebrating Canadian Pacific heritage CPKC's Heritage SD70ACU rebuilt from a UP SD9043mac leads a manifest upgrade thru White Canyon towards Gladwin Summit.. The train in Run-8 co... (more)

Rock Sheds White Canyon, what might be the most treacherous section of railroad in North America. Rock Sheds protect the CN railroad from this crumbling mountain. All night long there is ... (more)

Thompson Canyon Grade An early morning manifest originating in Vancouver blast up heavy grade in the Thompson Canyon. The grade here is about 1.2% and will be one of the steepest sections ... (more)

Frank Slide Gravity contesting the advance of a CPKC manifest on the heavy grade at Frank Slide, AB. On April 29, 1903 the Turtle Mountain broke loose putting in motion a massive landsli... (more)

Trinidad Hill An empty coal train slams upgrade against a tortured landscape. Volcanic Fire, Water and Sun have carved an other worldly landscape on the edge of the Cascade Mountain Rang... (more)

Battle of 100 Loads One Hundred loads of rock is lifted up South Draw for a West-Slope track project. The very heavy westbound is slowly moving up the 2%+ grade and 10 degree curves of S... (more)

Stevens Pass The Great Northern Railroad surveyed Stevens Pass in 1890 and chose it as the the location for its Transcontinental Mainline. The original alignment was plagued by problems a... (more)

Empire Builder Eastbound Empire builder crosses Nason Creek while sliding down Steven's Pass in typical Cascade Mountain weather. This location has been popular with railroad buffs for ye... (more)

WIND An eastbound train of autos storms across the Midvale Creek Trestle . The large screen on the north side of the bridge is to shield the trains from very high winds that can wreak havo... (more)

Electro Motive A vintage quartet of EMD power run towards Searles to pick up a coal train off the Union Pacific interchange. The power is moving along the edge of an ancient lakebed that ... (more)

Old Timer A vintage pair of SD9s lead the Connell Turn south of Warden, Washington. The bustling agricultural railroad uses a small fleet of SD9's to move freight thru the Coulees of Centr... (more)

Santa Fe Livesl On the high desert of Utah, the Comstock Iron Mine uses a small fleet of ex. ATSF C44-9Ws to haul iron ore down the steep 2.5% grades of the mine railroad to an interchange ... (more)

Trinidad Hill A morning BNSF Z-train climbs the 1% grade of Trinidad Hill. The rails have been climbing since crossing the Columbia River at Rock Island and will soon transverse the Trinid... (more)