A BNSF grain empty crosses the bridge over the inlet of Swamp Creek into the Noxon Reservoir on June 29, 2019. Some sort of variety of wild rose is blooming in the foreground along waters edge add... (more)

Westbound BNSF grain train GMASPSA foolows the curves of the Clark Fork at milepost 17 east of Eddy, Montana, on Montana Rail Link’s scenic Fourth Subdivision on the afternoon of September 11, 20... (more)

On August 29, 2018, a Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western “corn train” rolls southbound at Merida, North Dakota, over the DMV&W’s Missouri Valley Subdivision. The unit train is powered by a pair of ... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s 844 local out of Logan heads westward on the Fifth Subdivision at Three Forks, Montana, on July 2, 2019. Today, the local is taking three empty ballast cars to the siding at Wi... (more)

In a falling snow on the southern border of Glacier National Park, an eastbound Burlington Northern grain empty led by LMX GE B39-8 No. 8536 has just summited Marias Pass and approaches Bison, Mon... (more)

Dressed in classy Southern Pacific black widow colors, Portland & Western GP9 No. 1801 switches the PNWR yard in Eugene, Oregon, on the morning of September 27, 2016. The 1959-built EMD is lettere... (more)

A long Union Pacific train of covered hoppers negotiates the curves at Rocky, Colorado, with EMD SD70ACe No. 8933 as rear DPU on the eastbound train on June 21, 2018.

With the rugged Mission Range behind it, Montana Rail Link’s night gas local runs westbound along the Flathead River near Dixon at McDonald, Montana, on June 29, 2019.

Canadian National GE C44-9WL No. 2505 pops out of the 591-foot tunnel at mile 33.4 just west (south) of Robb, Alberta, on August 8, 2016.

Traversing the scenic Jefferson River Canyon between Sappington and Whitehall, Montana, is a westbound Montana Rail Link ballast train led by SD45 No. 346 on June 26, 2019. The empty train is head... (more)

A westbound BNSF grain train curves over a lengthy fill alongside the Clark Fork between Noxon and Heron, Montana, on the afternoon of June 28, 2019.

A setting sun lights up the undersides of receding clouds a brilliant red at the end of the day on June 24, 2019, as an eastbound BNSF vehicle train departs Quebec, Montana, after meeting two west... (more)

A late season springtime snow blankets the the barren Wyoming landscape west of Cheyenne as an eastbound Union Pacific stack train drops downgrade on Sherman Hill between Borie and Wycon on April ... (more)

Multitudes of families have already posed for photos with the largest operating steam locomotive in the world as a woman photographs her son and husband in front of Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 ... (more)

Engineer Ed Dickens talks to admirers from the gangway of Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 at Rawlins, Wyoming, on May 4, 2019.