With the temperature lingering in the single digits on the morning of New Year's Eve, a westbound unit coal train flies across the Clark Fork River at Noxon, Montana beneath the formidable Cabinet... (more)

Amtrak's Coast Starlight blasts upgrade out of Tunnel 6 and through the north switch of Cruzatte, deep in the Oregon Cascades. The oxygen-thirsty trailing P32BWH is belching smoke as a result of c... (more)

Milwaukee Extra 24 West tip toes across the Hall Creek trestle on the west slope of Snoqualmie Pass with a quartet of SD40-2s. Hints of electrification remain over the ballast deck bridge, and def... (more)

A Southern Pacific coal load climbs the steep Tennessee Pass Subdivision a mile or two below the summit on a sunny March 29, 1997 afternoon. The 100 car train had three AC4400CWs on the point, fou... (more)

A Canadian Pacific grain train heads west under stormy weather during a brief moment of sunshine at Ottertail, British Columbia, on September 23, 2013.

CP AC4400CW No. 9727 operating as rear DPU on a grain train has a unique paint job with “Canadian Pacific” spelled out in one line and no “Golden Beaver” logo. This westbound train is at O... (more)

Just when the dirt road through the Colorado river gorge reached again the edge of the canyon, this UP mixed freight came along, together with the only sunshine spot of the day! Leading are AC4400... (more)

Passenger train Tashkent - Denau. August 24, 2007 is the official date of opening line "Tashguzar - Boysun - Kumkurgan". This line goes bypassing Turkmenistan. So it is allows to carry out direct... (more)

Three ex-B&0 SD40s in Western Fuels/Escalante Western paint, lead an empty PEGS coal train up to Lee Ranch Jct to get loaded around 0800.

In a summer downpour, the southbound Grain Shuttle off the Palouse River & Coulee City sweeps through the S-curve at Park in the Palouse Canyon between Hooper and Joso.

CP AC4400CW 8509 is seen leading a Eastport, ID to Hinkle, OR Manifest (M-ETHK) south on Joso Viaduct over the Snake River in the last minutes of evening light - 08/09/2013

An Arosa - Chur local service crosses the Langwies Viaduct, while a Chur - Arosa special (Ge 4/4 II, Alpine Classic Pullman cars) waits for it to pass.

With the sunlight fading fast at the end of a long summer day, a westbound oil train navigates the Kootenai River Gorge between Katka and Crossport at the northernmost location on BNSF's entire No... (more)

Deep in the Kootenai River Gorge of western Montana, an eastbound manifest twists its way through the seemingly endless curves and tunnels that characterize this long and slow stretch of BNSF's No... (more)

As layers of fog shift around the valley, a lonely ES44AC works in heavy dynamic braking on the rear end of a westbound manifest descending the Meacham Creek Canyon at the east switch of Camp. Rea... (more)