On the afternoon of February 29, 2020, the tranquility of high country in winter is shattered as Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad steam-powered Rotary OY plows its way up the steep four percent gr... (more)

An eastbound BNSF stack train curves past milepost 420 at West Crookton, Arizona, on the morning of March 10, 2005. This location is about eight miles east of Seligman.

The rear end of a westbound Burlington Northern grain train is about to exit the big Iron Ridge Cut between Austin and Weed, Montana, while climbing Montana Rail Link’s main line over Mullan Pass ... (more)

A typical Burlington Northern grain train of the 1990s climbs Mullan Pass west of Helena, Montana, with a roar that can’t be repeated today. BN GE C30-7 No. 5022 leads a sister C30-7 and two EMD S... (more)

Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western’s “wayfreight” approaches the town of Garrison, North Dakota, on the afternoon of August 30, 2018.

On a typically gloomy spring day in Wisconsin on March 30, 1985, Glen Monhart’s Charleston & Western Carolina F7 No. 901 does some freight duties during car clean up at the end of operations for s... (more)

An eastbound Southern Pacific coal train curves through Edwards, Colorado, on September 5, 1995. Located on the Tennessee Pass route, the town of Edwards is about eleven miles west of Minturn in t... (more)

An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight pauses at Caliente, California, on March 15, 2004. A westbound intermodal is approaching and can be seen above the train on the trackage toward Tu... (more)

Rio Grande EMD GP40-2 Nos. 3109 and 3105 switch cars at Union Pacific’s yard at La Salle, Colorado, on July 6, 2005. After UP’s merger of Southern Pacific and Rio Grande, the merged railroad’s lo... (more)

An southbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe Freight passes through Walsenburg, Colorado, on February 13, 1998. The train is powered by four EMD SD40-2s, and can be seen curving through town above t... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight climbs the front range of the Rockies at Rocky, Colorado, as it circle through “Little 10 Curve” on Union Pacific’s former Rio Grande Moffat Tunnel... (more)

Thundering through Tobin
A Montana Rail Link rear helper set of three SD40s mated with another SD45-2 shoves hard into the rear of the westbound BNSF coal train thundering through Tobin... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train blasts upgrade toward a green signal at Tobin, Montana, on the afternoon of July 5, 2001. The mid-train helper consists of three Montana Rail Li... (more)

A westbound BNSF coal train sits with its head end just short of Head Lane west of Helena, Montana, late in the day of July 5, 2001. Two sets of helpers are being added to the “heavy” down at Hele... (more)

On September 24, 2003, a pair of GE C40-8s power an eastbound Union Pacific manifest freight approaching the summit of Sherman Hill at Sherman, Wyoming.