BLE 909 adds to the spectacular fall colors as this empty taconite train makes its way north for another load of pellets at United Taconite.

Led by a colorful set of locomotives, an eastbound train on the Siskiyou Line is working up the 3+% grade to Siskiyou Summit.

DRGW 5401 seems to be right at home at the Colorado Railroad Museum. A peeling UP patch with number 9871 still adorns the sides of the cab, but the number boards were thankfully backdated to refl... (more)

Trona Railway SD40T-2 #2005 leads a train of loaded soda ash toward the Union Pacific interchange at Searles, as it passes the Westend chemical complex in Trona.

One of my 1st trips on my own was a trip out to Montana and Utah back in 2000. One of the things on the "Hit List" was this dirt train on the ex-Rio Grande" out of Helper, Utah. Eve... (more)

Minutes after BNSF's OCS train went by north ITSX 2847 and 2839 pull a cut of intermodal cars out the south end of BNSF's Alliance Yard before reversing back in to the yard.

Late on a spring afternoon, a lumber drag rolls westward on the Siskiyou Line.

Basking in the Colorado sun, UP 9871 (ex DRGW 5401 SD40-T2) always draws a crowd at the Colorado Railroad Museum. It's the youngest piece in the collection, having been built in 1980 for the Denv... (more)

A meet on the Siskiyou Line - a train of empties proceeds eastward up the main line while a westbound waits in the siding at Gazelle.

Lone tunnel motor as the sun slides to the horizon.

A former Southern Pacific tunnel motor and former BRC switcher form an unlikely pair residing at the shuttle elevator in Berthold.

237 heads west through Kidron as the sun heads for the horizon. Powering the train are Wheeling's pair of DGRW painted tunnel motors.

An eastbound manifest on the Modoc Line passes stored sugar beet cars at Stukel siding. The train is a few miles south of Klamath Falls. In less than three months, Union Pacific will close the M... (more)