NS 9819 rolls down the Pokey WB by the CWC enroute to Williamson with a motley consist.

CR 8098 leads it's first train through the Beaver valley on the 578.

Trout through the ice
An eastbound BNSF intermodal train cruises by Frog Pond west of Trout Creek, Montana, on January 25, 2013. Not long before the arrival of this train, the young dau... (more)

BNSF 6085 leads 3 Dash 9s and a vehicle train westbound up the grade of the east slope of Stevens Pass along Nason Creek just west of Merritt, Washington. Note 4 different color schemes of BNSF po... (more)

The mid-day passenger train tackles the stiff 3.9% grade out of Mifengyan behind C2 #09. Here the track winds through a field of flowering rape seed plants. Every March, the hills in the this regi... (more)

A loaded coal train descends the eastern slope of Tennessee Pass, and is about to pass the west switch for the siding at Princeton. From this angle, the right-of-way of the old Colorado Midland R... (more)

Cumbres after dark. With her day's assignment as a helper now complete, a D&RGW K-36 simmers on the main in front of the depot at Cumbres Pass, with only the night hostlers keeping watch. ... (more)

These DPUs assist an eastbound BNSF stack train down the east slope of Stevens Pass along Nason Creek just west of Merritt, Washington.

CSX Q62109 heads north with a fresh snowfall and a nice matching pair of Helm leasers.

As seen from inside a long-abandoned gas station along the old Lincoln Highway (later, U.S. Highway 30) at James Town (west of Green River), Wyoming, a Union Pacific stack train descends Peru Hill... (more)

A westbound BNSF stack train skirts the clear and cold Frog Pond west of Trout Creek, Montana. The pond was mostly frozen over, but it did have a few holes of open water like this.

Moon over Cumbres. Denver & Rio Grande Western K-36, Number 487 poses on the 84 ft. wooden trestle at Cumbres Pass, under a crystal clear, moon-lit sky. A 30-second exposure at ISO 500 and... (more)

Southern Pacific's MOVCC coal empty curves by a brilliant patch of quaking aspen on the Pleasant Valley Sub, bound for the load out at Valley Camp.