The hottest train on the railroad. - You know it's hot when it's got foreign power (UP) on a foreign railroad (MRL) and only two cars behind. This was a "J" train special out of Fort Worth,... (more)

From this vantage point it's easy to see how much elevation change this tank train has undergone as it moves off the original Santa Fe track and onto the ex-Rio Grande right of way. What isn't se... (more)

Livingston Peak and the snow caped Absaroka Range watch over Montana Rail Link's daily Laurel to Missoula manifest as it begins the hard 1.8% climb up Bozeman Pass west of Livingston, MT.

BNSF 5705 leads a loaded coal train around one of the numerous bends in the rail along Bozeman Pass, just west of Livingston, MT. In the distance, the 9,295 ft (2,833 m) point of Livingston Peak a... (more)

February 14, 2015. Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief #4 negotiates the twists and turns of scenic Glorieta Pass, on an unusually warm winter's night. Running approximately 5 hours and 30 minutes ... (more)

Union Pacific freight MDVPV (Denver to Provo manifest) chugs through some fresh snow approaching Tunnel 1 east of Plainview, Colorado, on November 30, 2006.

Union Pacific coal load CEYPS curves past milepost 22 just west of Eisele (Clay), Colorado, early in the morning of February 9, 2015. UP No. 8888, built in 2014, is a heavy EMD SD70ACe that UP lab... (more)

CP SD40-2 no. 5647 decked out in Expo 86 promotional paint leads a coal train west the day after a blizzard piled snow up in the Fraser canyon. The train is rolling by a parked grain train at Yale... (more)

The westbound California Zephyr cruises along the Colorado River on the Dotsero cutoff. It is late winter, with snow still lingering at the higher elevations. Olympus OM-2n, 50mm f/1.4, Kodachrome... (more)

On May 23, 2011, spring has sprung along the Flathead River just east of Perma, Montana, as Montana Rail Link’s gas local heads east, powered by SD45 (MRL rebuild now labeled a SD45-2M) No. 382 ... (more)

It was definitely worth to climb up the to the top of one of the rocks at Pinecliff. A BNSF mixed was on it's way to Denver, hauled by ES44DC #7705, #7415 and C44-9W #5423

A northbound empty grain train heads upstream along the remote Moyie River just north of Meadow Creek, about 20 miles from the interchange with CP at Eastport, ID.

In the final minutes of evening light at the end of a beautiful summer day, an eastbound vehicle train enters the Kootenai River Gorge just east of Crossport in the scenic Idaho Panhandle.

Perhaps with the ugly-duckling on the point, Santa Fe’s Super Chief-El Capitan Train 17 climbs the Colorado side of Raton Pass near Morley on Aug. 1, 1970. GE 7902 U28CG; EMD 5944 FP45; EMD 593... (more)

Santa Fe’s Super Chief/El Capitan Train 17 descends the New Mexico side of Raton Pass at Keota with four motors — 7902, 5944, 5937, 5936. Note the angle which the signal is aimed (for early v... (more)