A heavy westbound unit grain train rolls down the Clark Fork River approaching Plains, Montana on a crystal clear morning in Big Sky Country.

Through the Rockies, not around them. So proclaimed the motto of the Denver & Rio Grande, later known as the Denver & Rio Grande Western. In order to accomplish that goal, the D&RGW laid ... (more)

Crossing the Calle Calle bridge, the "Tren de la Araucanía" travels from Antilhue to Temuco, with the steam locomotive 4-8-2 No. 820 built in 1940 by Baldwin Locomotive Works, on specia... (more)

Northbound BNSF 5226 rounds the curve leading to Caliente Narrows, as the train rounds the horseshoe curve at Caliente. The rear of the stacks are still coming down off the 2.2% grade of the hill.

Long Mixed Manifests need lots of power to bring them down the steep grades of the west slopes of the Tehachapi mountains.

Double Stacks and TOFC snake their way Southbound up the slopes of the Tehachapi Mountains near Tunnel 2

Double Stacks and TOFC pass through the Caliente Narrows in a landscape that won't last for long as the dry days take over.

Thank goodness the "Cardinal" was two hours late today!

Passenger train Badulla - Colombo

Three BNSF paint schemes on two different SD70 platforms roll an Roberts Bank, BC export coal train westbound.

Passenger train Colombo - Badulla

With the vast expanse of the Mojave Desert in the background and a modern, unsightly, but productive eyesore in the foreground, an eastbound BNSF intermodal train negotiates the reverse curves at ... (more)

On a glorious late winter day in the Kern County mountains, an eastbound BNSF stack train takes on the grueling, and very evident, 2.52% ruling grade between Caliente and Bealville on Tehachapi Pa... (more)

A late-running Seattle-bound Empire Builder blasts up the grade towards Lyons during a spectacular summer sunrise in Eastern Washington.

Three matched blue MRL SD45's lead a westbound M-LAUSPO down the Clark Fork River along the narrow rock shelf approaching Plateau Tunnel (the portal of which can be seen on the right).