The westbound Paradise Local rumbles downriver toward its home base with a string of empty lumber cars, passing some small rapids on the Clark Fork River near Quinns.

On a beautiful summer afternoon in Alberta, VIA Rail’s train No. 2, the eastbound Canadian, rolls through Robertson’s Curve at Swan Landing on July 7, 2014. The 21-car stainless steel streamli... (more)

VIA Rail Canada's (Jasper) Santa train accelerates westward on CN's Albreda Sub. Using the equipment from the Skeena and an additional two coaches, a volunteer VIA Rail crew will operate this trai... (more)

After stoping at Palmer Lake CO to cut off manned pushers BNSF 9014 is just getting under way on it's southward journey on the morning after an April snowshower.

The DP's on a northbound BNSF coal empty dutifully follow their train through a winter wonderland at Palmer Lake

With the sunlight fading fast at the end of a long summer day, a westbound oil train navigates the Kootenai River Gorge between Katka and Crossport at the northernmost location on BNSF's entire No... (more)

Due to spring flooding in North Dakota that washed out portions of BNSF's mainline, several high priority intermodal trains were temporarily rerouted over MRL. On an early July morning, a detourin... (more)

Canadian Pacific’s northbound wayfreight departs Wasa, British Columbia, and crosses the Kootenay River. Lead locomotive No. 5961 was the first SD40-2 painted in the “Golden Beaver” scheme.

A westbound Canadian Pacific grain train departs Field, British Columbia, on September 23, 2013, passing a hghly-reflective mountain lake on the west end of the yard.

By 1982, the candy cane version of CP Rail's color scheme was becoming a somewhat rare treat. Here good fortune led to a candy cane on the point, and sunlight in February in the Fraser Canyon as a... (more)

CP 5806 leads a quintet of SD40/SD40-2s on the point of a unit train in fresh snow at Ruskin, B. C. The train is most likely loaded with sulfur for export at Vancouver. CP handles numerous coal tr... (more)

With the Clark Fork River at an unusually low level following a long winter, three H3's lead an empty unit coal train slowly across the river approaching the west switch of Colby in the final minu... (more)

Flying East, 10,800 horsepower from three SD45's hustle 8,000 feet of manifest traffic out of Livingston on a spectacular Fall morning.

Deep in the Kootenai River Gorge of western Montana, an eastbound manifest twists its way through the seemingly endless curves and tunnels that characterize this long and slow stretch of BNSF's No... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific coal train snakes through Big 10 Curve on the afternoon of June 9, 2013. In the foreground are two AC4400CWs being used as rear DPUs going through Eisele (formerly Clay)... (more)