Illinois tree tunnel
A Burlington Northern local approaches a “tree tunnel” as it slowly makes its way between Harmon and Amboy, Illinois, on June 10, 1984. BN operated this former Chica... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD SD70MAC No. 9692 leads a southbound coal train through Mayne, Colorado, on May 20, 1999. The rear of the train has just cleared the south switch of the siding at Mayne, and... (more)

Dusk settles over Denver, Colorado, on March 13, 2020, as a RTD G Line commuter train arrives from Wheat Ridge at Denver Union Station. Over on Track 5, the Winter Park Express ski train has also ... (more)

An eastbound Santa Fe freight led by EMD GP50 No. 3821 sweeps through a curve between Cosnino and Darling, Arizona, on the morning of April 20, 1990.

I was too young, and Rock Island was just out of reach, for me to have photographed the railroad in its last days. I sure wish I could have, but only saw bits and pieces of it as the years wore on... (more)

Hamering up Bozeman
The canyon below Chestnut Mountain on Bozeman Pass is filled with the sounds of hard-working vintage EMDs pounding up the grade on July 2, 1994. A trio of SD9s, a SD... (more)

Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad’s snowplow Rotary OY gnaws through an icy snowpack atop 10,015-foot Cumbres Pass, Colorado, on March 1, 2020. This special run of the plow was done to kick off the... (more)

An afternoon run of the Deseret Power Railway unit coal train is westbound as it approaches the Highway 64 overpass west of Midway, Colorado, on October 19, 2015.

Triple nickel
Soo Line EMD GP9 No. 555 switches at Shop Yard in North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, in September 1984.

Quiet in the tiny hamlet of Walton, Illinois, is disturbed by the infrequent passage of an eastbound Burlington Northern local on June 10, 1984. Trackage on this former Chicago, Burlington & Quinc... (more)

After acquiring Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern Railway in 1982, Soo Line operated a passenger special from Humboldt Yard in Minneapolis to Northfield and return in September 1984. Leading the ... (more)

Running westbound on Rio Grande’s Moffat Tunnel route, a quartet of EMD F40PH locomotives pull a seventeen-car Amtrak California Zephyr westbound through Tunnel 38 in spectacular Gore Canyon near ... (more)

On the morning of July 26, 1996, a Southern Pacific coal train passes through the signals on the east side of the town of Haswell, Colorado. SP used the Rio Grande route over Tennessee Pass and th... (more)

Small town Illinois
A Burlington Northern local rumbles through Harmon, Illinois, on June 10, 1984. BN operated this former Chicago, Burlington & Quincy branch from Sterling to Earlville... (more)

Power for Amtrak’s Winter Park Express ski train is running around their train at Fraser, Colorado, on March 13, 2020. The nexts day’s round trip to Winter Park and Fraser will be the last for the... (more)