BNSF 6047 (ES44AC) leads a loaded coal train to Palmer Lake.

A bright sunrise catches a Warbonnet amongst the Heritage III pumpkins waiting in the Denver engine servicing yard for orders.

The sanders are wide open as the head-end of this grain train digs into the 10 degree curve of the upper horseshoe curve that rounds Iron Ridge.... The ancient cabins in the background are part of... (more)

A grain train struggles thru Austin on its climb up the 2.2% grade. The 4 blue MRLSD70ACE helpers can be shouldering into the heavy grain train. The curves, combined withe 2.2% grade make the clim... (more)

A grain train curves thru Austin, Montana on its climb up the 2.2% grade. Two venerable -9s lead the heavy grain load, mid-train 4 MRL ACEs can be seen near the curve on the right of the photo, an... (more)

2 MRL SD70ACe's lift a light Laurel, MT-Missoula, MT manifest up 2.2% grade of Mullan Pass. In a mile the train will duck into Blossburg Tunnel and cross under the Continental Divide.

Amtrak’s eastbound California Zephyr descends the grades of the Moffat Tunnel route rounding Big 10 Curve between Eisele and Rocky, Colorado, on the afternoon of May 4, 2018. Leading the train i... (more)

A Santa Fe stack train dashes across spectacular Canyon Diablo Bridge at Canyon Diablo, Arizona, on April 19, 1990. A “Kodachrome” GE C30-7 leads a pair of EMD SD40-2s and a pair of EMD SD40s ... (more)

Chicago & North Western GE C44-9W No. 8625 leads a westbound Union Pacific manifest freight approaching Tunnel 1 east of Plainview, Colorado, on May 2, 1998.

A heavy BNSF coal train grinds through Skyline, Montana, climbing the 2.2% grade up Mullan Pass on Montana Rail Link’s Third Subdivision west of Helena on the morning of June 29, 2017.

Arriving at Victor
Montana Rail Link’s Bitterroot branch (also known as the Darby branch) local arrives at Victor, Montana, under rainy skies on May 18, 2013. This line had high water... (more)

A colorful locomotive consist leads a northbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight into Wind River Canyon as crosses the Wind River between Piper and Dornick, Wyoming, on July 8, 1999. BNSF war... (more)

Amtrak’s California Zephyr climbs the front range of the Rocky Mountains between Rocky and Clay, Colorado, led by GE P40DC No. 821 on September 16, 2014.

For the last four years here at NAU I have wanted one particular shot; a late Amtrak coming out of the sag at Darling in morning light. I have been here to photographed Amtrak number of times, but... (more)

A westbound BNSF Denver to Tacoma stack train rumbles through Cyr, Montana, on the afternoon of September 23, 2006. The train is powered by a pair of EMD SD40-2s painted in Heritage I livery, with... (more)