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)

The Rio Grande Ski Train had tackled the rising plains, and now begins its assault on the Rockies as it approaches the curve at the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon.

Running perfectly on time, Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr rolls through Glenwood Canyon beside the mighty Colorado River just east of Glenwood Springs, CO on February 7, 2015.

With ten cars on the drawbar, Montana Rail Link’s 844 local heads westbound through the Jefferson River Canyon east of Sappington, Montana, on May 16, 2013. On the other side of the river is th... (more)

Battling Bozeman Pass: Under threatening storm skies, the Spokane to Laurel manifest with four SD45's and a SD45-2XR battle their way up Bozeman Pass.

The immensity of some of Colorado’s mountains and canyons is aptly seen here as an eastbound BNSF freight exits rugged Red Gorge between Yarmony and Radium on the morning of June 6, 2013.

The morning after a light snow dusted the Front Range mountains outside of Denver, this eastbound slowly emerges from the short Tunnel 29 on its descent toward Denver.