The Luscar industrial spur and load out serves Teck's Cardinal River Coal Mine near Cadomin, AB. The mine extracts high quality coking-coal for the steel industry world wide. The Canadian Nationa... (more)

Descending the Divide. A bran-new GEVO holds back a train of Colorado Black Diamonds as it rounds a curve at Crescent, Colorado. Moffat Road!

Veteran mountain climbers lead this westbound empty coal train towards Colorado's Continental Divide. Spring weather in the rockies is generally full of clear blue mornings.....

Screaming upgrade thru Helena National Forest this west-coast bound grainer crosses Austin creek. Helena National Forest has a large population of Grizzlies...just a reminder for us visitors to MR... (more)

A stormy afternoon on Tennessee Pass. The thunder heard from the cut on Kindig's Curve however is a westbound coal load with 8 GE's and one EMD Tunnel Motor in Run-8!!!! Oh what a place it was!!!!... (more)

Lifting tonnage up and over the Wasatch Mountains takes a Herculean effort! Here 10500 horsepower, with another 21,000 horsepower cut in mid-train lift this westbound coal load up the 2.4% grade ... (more)

UP8561 leads a morning manifest towards Tunnel One on the Moffat Road. It is not unusual to get 60 degree days in January, however this day turned out to be a balmy 70 degrees.... Do not be alarme... (more)

Pete Lerro put together one of the most authentic photo freights to yet roll over the C&TS. In this view high above Windy Point it could almost be 1957. How many times over the past century has ... (more)

A westbound grain train sand blasts of Peru Hill. It must of been an awesome experience to see a Big Boy crush this scene with thunderous sound and a heavy shower of cinders.....

UP4310 climbs upgrade towards Tunnel with a train of brand new UMAX containers.

MRL109 is ex Northern Pacific built in 2/1955. On a blustery Montana afternoon the Paradise local switches out the big lumber mill in Thompson Falls. Amazing these old Geeps are still running str... (more)

The Paradise local rolls west towards Thompson Falls. At Thompson Falls the local will switch the lumber mill and exchange empties for loads. It is amazing the Geep 9s survive in the shadow of th... (more)

A 112 car manifest cruises along the Great Salt Lake Causeway. From my mountain top perch the smell of this great salty inland sea smells almost the same as being ocean side in California. The v... (more)

Encina Hill in eastern Oregon is one of this railfans favorite locations. Resembling Tehachapi in many ways the twisting 2.2% climb out of the Snake River Valley is spectacular. In this view a hea... (more)

A heavy Wyoming Soda Train ascends the Pritchard Creek Horseshoe. A 2.2% Grade and Curvature test heavy westbound unit trains. This train 2x5x1, Eight massive AC locomotives make a mechanical symp... (more)