Running two-plus hours behind schedule the westbound Empire Builder climbs BNSF's Scenic Sub, crossing the 1948 vintage Nason Creek Trestle. The air quality has been degraded by wildfires and is ... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive H 2/3 # 5, built by SLM Winterthur in 1891 for the Wengernalpbahn (WAB) and climbing up the Brienzer Rothorn for the BRB since 1912, is shoving car B1 on the grade of 25.0... (more)

The only 2 coalfired operational steamlocomotives of the Brienz Rothorn Bahn on a picture (the company uses 4 lightoil fired steamlocomotives too). H 2/3 # 6, built in 1933 by SLM Winterthur is sh... (more)

Father meets son as the eastbound and westbound Empire Builders meet at Milwaukee... Engineer of train 8, Craig Willett, waves with a big smile to his son, engineer on train 7. Adding this today... (more)

The view from a locomotive on the scenic Thamshavnbanen, a narrow gauge railway in central Norway. Visible to the left is the river Orkla.

Amtrak's Empire Builder makes a station stop at Columbus with Heritage #156 leading the way.

The Empire Builder has just passed the x-overs known as Tamarack and is five miles from a station stop in Columbus.

The westward Empire Builder is right on time departing Columbus on a fine Sunday afternoon in October.

A late Empire Builder shows up at Sunset Falls with nice lighting and pretty decent water flow at the falls. Ansel Adams inspired "features" are the dark sky, the depth of field, and Zones 0 thro... (more)

Amtrak 7 heads west across the Gassman Coulee Trestle less than a half hour late.

MLW FPA-4 “B&O” #800 at Canton Lincoln Highway after arriving with train 7, 17h40 from Akron on July 08th 2010. This loco is actually on the rear of the train, classmate #6777 was at the fron... (more)

Amtrak 40 leads the Empire Builder.

Engineer Craig Willett skillfully pilots the Empire Builder west, acknowledging the railfan on the bridge with his customary waving of the timetable and sustaining whistle. Bringing up the marker... (more)