As a large thunderstorm rolls east along the plains of Colorado in the background, BNSF 3933 leads the Denver, CO to Provo, UT manifest up and around Big Ten Curve after overtaking a westbound UP ... (more)

An eastbound BNSF coal train passes through the massive cut at East Stokes, Wyoming, on June 21, 2020. In the spring of 1998, BNSF daylighted Sunset Tunnel, also known as the 1,928-foot Tunnel 2 b... (more)

"Watching Trains at Nassau One Last Time" With news that Long Island Rail Road's Nassau Tower in Mineola closing, several railbuffs, rail employees and others from near and far s... (more)

Sunset is just minutes away as a San Bernadino, California, bound BNSF intermodal reposition train crests the top of Burkes Hill and dips into the sag approaching Milepost 21 in Louisville, Colora... (more)

The sun tries to break through on a snowy morning in the mountains of Colorado as Union Pacific’s Denver to Grand Junction freight, led by Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 149, rumbles through C... (more)

With a colorful early morning sunrise, CN train 121 is westbound, hauling out of Moncton, seen here getting up to speed at Berry Mills, New Brunswick. Half of the train is made up of empty well ca... (more)

Union Pacific The Big Boy is just departing Denver for Cheyenne in the midst of a classic November, Colorado Wyoming blizzard. By the time the Big Boy reaches Wyoming nearly a foot of snow had com... (more)

Fresh heavy snow flocks the entire region to the Great Divide on this early Winter day. Eastbound MGJNY with #7082 on the point heavy in lumber and building supplies for Denver from the Pacific ... (more)

This very rare picture shows a chemical generated aurora that comes from two NASA Rock probes launched over Northern Norway (Aurora Zone Upwelling Rocket Experiment) additionally a light natural ... (more)

WE 3067 and a variety of other Wheeling power takes a train west across the Speers Trestle just as a rainbow appears across the Mon Valley.

In a torrent of heavy freezing and cold rain at Cumbres Pass #487 struggles up to the pass on the wet rail. The first signs of a long Winter on the pass are evident with the coming of the late Fal... (more)

The fields of gold sunflowers are glowing in the evening sun east of Roggen, CO on a hot late summer August evening. One of the many empty coal moves flies eastward for its return to the mines.

Recently restored Santa Fe FP45 rests overnight in SCRM's Carbarn Seven. This locomotive was backdated to it's as delivered appearance by museum volunteers. The hard work of the restoration team r... (more)

High above the Colorado Front Range, the sound of dynamic breaks can be heard as an empty BNSF sand train descends out of Tunnel 1 and through the horseshoe curve at Coal Creek Canyon, CO on June ... (more)