The imposing landscape of the Columbia River gorge makes big trains look small.

An eastbound coal train led by three Rio Grande Tunnel Motors curves through the stark, lunar-like landscape approaching Floy, Utah, on August 4, 1996. This is a view from a peak in the Bookcliffs... (more)

An eastbound Canadian Pacific intermodal train skirts Savona Lake just east of Savona, British Columbia, on July 23, 2011. In this view, lone AC4400CW (No. 9739) operates as the rear as DPU around... (more)

This empty potash train heads east through the curve just west of Exshaw. The autumn leaves are beginning to fall and the snow has already started to come as well. Autumn doesn't last long around ... (more)

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Burlington Northern Santa Fe train 14 heads east through the snow at Grizzly, Montana, on February 28, 1997. The railroad still looks like the Burlington Northern at this date, right down to the f... (more)

On June 16, 2001, a quartet of BN/BNSF SD70MACs leads an empty coal train out of Tunnel 1 just east of Plainview, Colorado. In conjunction with Utah Railway, BNSF operates occasional coal trains f... (more)

Roseville?, Pine Bluff?, Houston?, Sacramento Shops?; Nope, Chicago! When Southern Pacific finally made it to Chicago, it did so in a big way, with trackage rights over BN and the old GM&O from St... (more)

A Canadian National coal train heads east across a fill along Jasper Lake at Windy Point, Alberta, on July 19, 2011. In the background, rain is falling over Jasper and scenic Jasper National Park.

The Schlossalm mountain railroad didn't had any runs planned anymore that day, but freight trains were running one after another thanks to the Brenner pass closure.

Negotiating at least six curves at once, a Canadian Pacific stack train heads west at Morris, British Columbia, on Canadian National’s Ashcroft Subdivision in the Thompson River Canyon.

Alco smoke show heading downhill toward Snowflake Junction.

6 clean Alco units are pulling about 130 empty sand cars off the Holbrook main and then will shove them back onto the Snowflake branch.

Deep down in Little Gore Canyon the daily BNSF Provo-Lincoln manifest train heads east through Tunnel 40 strung out along the narrow shelf carved into the steep canyon walls.