A westbound Santa Fe freight crosses Abo Arroyo on Bridge 874.2 as the train departs Abo Canyon and heads for a crew change at Belen, New Mexico, on May 23, 1991. On the point is a Superfleet GP60... (more)

This is the old Santa Fe line over Raton Pass. The line has not been used for freight since 2004. Amtrak leases the line and runs one passenger train a day in each direction. Semaphores are in op... (more)

A coal Drag at Mitchell. It took 9 AC's to lift 13000 tons over the 3% Tennessee Pass. I saw them do it with 8, but they barely made it!

MRL 390 . . . 391 . . . 392
All three of Montana Rail Link's F45s (393 was an IMRL unit at this point) are west of Louisville, Montana, with train LM (Laurel to Missoula manifest) on Oc... (more)

A coal load for Cohasset, MN snakes through the badlands of ND behind a SD70ACe.

BNSF9903 heads south with another load of Wyoming Black Diamonds...

May 15, 1977 would have been a perfect day to ride the Rio Grande Zephyr. Pick a dome, any dome, we've got five of them! The survivor of the streamliner age grinds its way east toward Soldier Summ... (more)

With three EMD F9's, Northern Pacific's westbound flagship "North Coast Limited," Train 25, ascends the east side of 6,356-ft. Homestake Pass near Whitehall, Montana. Next stop is Butte.

A Canadian National westbound leaves Boston Bar, British Columbia, and crosses the Anderson River Bridge on a trip through the Fraser River Canyon on September 27, 2001. The train is led by SD60F ... (more)

Freight train arrives from Villach at 'Oberfalkenstein Brücke' The Tauern Railway (German: Tauernbahn) is an Austrian railway line between Schwarzach-Sankt Veit in the state of Salzburg and Spit... (more)

On a sunny winter morning, a Gautrain 4-car EMU set is seen climbing the long grade to Midrand station, en route from Johannesburg to Pretoria. The large complex behind the train is the Nizamiye T... (more)

Highspeed tilting train ETR 470 002 of the SBB, running as Eurocity 153 from Basel via Lucerne and Gotthard to Milan, is leaning in the curve near Wassen. On the left the famous church, which can ... (more)

A big GE AC leads a long, empty vehicle train up the 1.0 percent grade between Bosque and Shawmut.