A detoured stack train bound for the West Coast rolls along the ex Northern Pacific, passing a beautiful field of sunflowers.

An empty grain train for Scranton, ND crawls up Bozeman Pass under developing afternoon thunderboomers.

H75 rumbles through downtown Velva on a balmy Summer afternoon.

A quartet of MRL SD70ACe's glide down Mullan Pass towards Helena, where they'll help to lift another coal train up the hellacious grade.

Four SD70ACe's slip and grind on the wet rails up the 2.2% of Mullan Pass with the rest of a M LAUPAS in tow.

The drive from Minot to Helena didn't seem worth it after the beginning of the last day; we had lost something valuable to us in the hotel, my railfan girlfriend hurt herself while foaming the hel... (more)

H75 rolls through the open plains of North Dakota with pop-up thunderstorms slowly developing behind.

The Harvey wayfreight rolls through the prairies of North Dakota. Hey, look, a tree!!!

Supposedly what was a rare move according to the brakeman, H75 pulls two tanks from the Sawyer siding that were rusted to the rails in the old house track. He said they were there for five years n... (more)

A Winter storm develops over the lush emerald Hayward Hills while #535 to San Jose crosses a full Alameda Creek.

Crossing the Truckee River, a behemoth SD9043MAC has a heavy Roper, UT to Roseville, CA manifest on the drawbars making a snails pace up Donner Pass. It'd be another four hours before they'd reach... (more)

Amtrak's Eastbound California Zephyr crosses the Butte Gulch on a warm Summer afternoon high in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Rolling along the ex Rio Grande, engineer and RP contributor Tom Magazin has Amtrak's Phase 1 heritage locomotive up to track spped leading the California Zephyr.

An EMD duo trots along the Crosby Subdivision, on old GN steam era 1912 stick rail, passing the "GTA Farmers" abandoned elevator in the small community of Hartland. After the train rocked and roll... (more)

Two EMD products scream up the near 1% grade out of Minot, leading the L MON8821, aka Northgate Local, while crossing a swollen South Branch creek on a muggy and stormy Summer afternoon.