A pair of SD70Ms roll southbound in the intense mid-day heat tackling one of the grades on the Cane Creek Branch on their way to work Intrepid Potash before returning to Grand Junction. A sharp ey... (more)

UP's Potash Local rolls south along the Moab Fault, a geological fracture surrounded by intricate layers of sandstone including the fossil rich Morrison Formation here near Canyonlands and Moab Gi... (more)

BNSF's Denver-Provo manifest banks into the tight 10 degree curve at Pinecliffe passing the former location of Tunnel 28 daylighted back in 1951. As a geology buff, I've wanted to shoot this locat... (more)

The "Provo" grinds up the tough grade between Crescent and Pinecliffe navigating this challenging and remote portion of the tunnel district high above South Boulder Creek. Here the train... (more)

Nestled at just over 8000', the town of Pinecliffe, named in the most literal sense, hosts an eastbound manifest following the rushing waters of South Boulder Creek on its descent towards Denver o... (more)

A trio of veterans led by a UP GE guide BNSF's Provo-Denver manifest downgrade through the Tolland Valley with the Continental Divide standing tall in the background. The train is crossing over So... (more)

Standing atop a rock cut high above the Giant's Ladder, BNSF's Provo-Denver manifest makes an early morning appearance cruising downhill out of the east portal of the Moffat Tunnel against the bre... (more)

UP's "Big Boy" 4014 charges through Peckham looking quite at home against the backdrop of an aging elevator, farm equipment, and tall grass blowing in the wind on its way from Cheyenne to Denver. ... (more)

Blue Hour at Washago. Detour days are back? Not quite, but after being outlawed earlier in the morning, 106 had backed its long string of stacks up the Newmarket Sub and tied down sometime around ... (more)

What does a "landscape" photographer do during the late fall browns? Find codeline, curves, a slice of Lake Ontario, stacks and a sunrise, and shoot right into it. Here a dependable 121 ... (more)

420's train eases into Chapleau with a couple hours of work and a new crew on deck before continuing east. The northern Ontario landscape is ablaze with colour, but the leaves are fading quickly w... (more)

The incoming crew of 119 changes off for the new one on duty to take the train west on the remote trek to White River. With the Nemegos Sub (to the east) also cutting through highly inaccessible s... (more)

119 hustles west through Missanabie crossing the Dog Lake Narrows, part of the system of countless interconnected lakes in the central Algoma District famous for its fishing. Heritage unit 7015 br... (more)

Mixed train 421, better known as the Polar Bear Express, hustles north on its way to Moosanee and James Bay with a good number of motor vehicles, a specially outfitted box car, APU, and usual pass... (more)

The sun shines through on 211 illuminating the golden encore of birch and poplar at Boston Creek, warming the scene and providing a brief respite between the fast paced, rolling precipitation arri... (more)