As the great city of Pittsburgh begins to come alive in the early morning hours, a Northbound NS intermodal snakes along the three rivers to eventually continue to Conway and points west.

First northbound on this Sunday morning.

Calm water on the Missouri River softly reflects steep canyon walls and an eastbound BNSF coal empty in Lombard Canyon east of Toston, Montana, late on the afternoon of June 25, 2017.

Washington's Yakima Canyon is pretty scenic and even more so while there's still some green on the hills. An empty (as they all are here) grain train crosses the Yakima River just downstream fro... (more)

The "Spirit of the Union Pacific" leads a executive special along the Columbia River.

CSX has began using DPUs on many of their freight trains, case in point here on today's Q439 as ES44AC 819 brings up the rear as it pushes the end of the train onto Iona Island.

Freshly painted former Conrail C40-8W '7320' leads the former UPS hotshot TV-LA out of New burgh along the calm Hudson River on a beautiful, warm early May morning.

A northbound Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge train hugs the cliffs above a roaring Animas River on the spectacular High Line between Rockwood and Tacoma, Colorado, on August 24, 2005.

The last of the sunlight glints on the Truckee River in Florinston as a set of cans heads eastbound toward Reno NV.

Rumbling along the banks of the Missouri River, a westbound BNSF freight journeys through Lombard Canyon just west of the siding at near sunset on June 29, 2016.

CSXT 6033, a GP40-2, leads local D749 up the Ohio River to its next stop at Neville Island with the great steel city in the background, Pittsburgh PA.

At dawn, well before the sun has come up, an eastbound BNSF Z train roars along the base of the cliffs at Lyle, WA.

An eastbound Union Pacific passenger train follows the Colorado River on UP’s Dotsero Cutoff between the sidings of Range and Dell west of Burns, Colorado, on June 6, 1998.

A BNSF westbound manifest skirts the north shore of the Columbia River at Lyle, WA.