Rocky Mountaineer’s “Rockies to the Red Rocks” Colorado and Utah excursion train threads 63-foot Tunnel 40 in the heart of Little Gore Canyon between Azure and Radium, Colorado, on a beautif... (more)

Classy Northern Pacific Budd dome/coach No. 549, now WEBX 801045, brings up the markers of Amtrak’s eastbound California Zephyr at Denver Union Station. The platform is bustling on the eve of Se... (more)

A westbound BNSF Herzog ballast train works its way slowly through Iron Ridge cut while climbing Montana Rail Link’s route over Mullan Pass west of Helena, Montana, on July 5, 2021.

The incredible depth of breathtaking Royal Gorge dwarfs a 16-car Royal Gorge Route Railroad passenger train as it negotiates tight, rocky confines along the Arkansas River near the old siding loca... (more)

Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad K-36 No. 489 leads the Antonito to Osier passenger train around a curve at track speed as it approaches Hangman’s Trestle (aka Ferguson’s Trestle) at mile 285.... (more)

An eastbound Burlington Northern coal train changes crews in front of the depot at Dickinson, North Dakota, on the morning of August 10, 1991. BN’s fleet of SD60Ms were initially concentrated on... (more)

BNSF’s HDENLAU freight rumbles northward through 370-foot Black Tunnel south of Dornick siding in Wyoming’s eye-catching Wind River Canyon on July 10, 2021.

At the end of a perfect day, a rainbow encircles a Montana Rail Link helper set trundling eastward at Austin, Montana, after helping a BNSF grain train over Mullan Pass on July 5, 2021.

On the afternoon of June 30, 2021, a westbound BNSF coal train projects a perfect reflection on the backwaters of the Clark Fork between Noxon and Heron, Montana.

A westbound Burlington Northern vehicle train passes the entrance to the Stonefield Historic Site at Cassville, Wisconsin, on May 28, 1994. Stonefield is the 2,000-acre estate of Wisconsin’s fir... (more)

A trio of new Burlington Northern EMD SD70MAC locomotives that were built to haul coal, grind upgrade as they approach the top of Crawford Hill at Belmont, Nebraska, on July 9, 1994.

Zephyrs meet
After crossing Donner Pass, Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr has just exited Tunnel 18 and is meeting the eastbound CZ, train 6, at Newcastle, California, on March 8, ... (more)

An Amtrak Rohr Turboliner rolls toward one of the bores through Breakneck Ridge, New York, with an Albany to New York City train on April 14, 1991. In the background is the Hudson River, which inc... (more)

Powered by a trio of GE C40-8 locomotives, an eastbound Union Pacific freight curves over the famous Keddie Wye Bridge in California’s Feather River Canyon on February 26, 1989.

An eastbound BNSF manifest freight train drops downgrade on Montana Rail Link’s crossing of Mullan Pass, passing a long abandoned homestead and ranch, as it approaches Austin, Montana, on July 4... (more)