Steamscape: The Snowshed Slide. "And by the time you get your hide past the Snowshed Slide.... You've had a ride on the Silverton, The Silverton Train." Those lyrics, penned over 4 decades ... (more)

Sunset along the San Juan Extension

Almost home, a manifest with a variety of rolling stock is rolling in from a hard days trip from New Mexico.

Fall Color at Coxo

The valley is echoing from the double header working up to Cumbres Pass on the Cumbres & Toltec.

Spezial Fototrain near Krupa / Bohemia

Raising is own rooster tail of blowing snow is an eastbound Burlington Northern freight at Grizzly, Montana, beneath the towering peaks of Glacier National Park on March 3, 1989. The train is led ... (more)

Fall color at Cement Wall. Deep in the Animas River Canyon, a Silverton Mixed Train behind D&RGW #473 charges north with some loads for the residents and businesses in Silverton, passing th... (more)

The early morning sun greets an empty CSX Brice coal train E321 starting into the cut beside the Levisa Fork in Pikeville,KY.

Water from the Tank

Like gold glowing in the brilliant Fall morning light; water on the deck flows from the tank. Chama, NM

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Rio Grande Heritage

The lines of our heritage hang loosely connected to infinity; relics from the last century scattered and disconnected. The stories these code line poles cou... (more)

Hermosa Sunset

Magnificent glint only a late Summer day on the Overland a Route can do highlights the rails at Hermosa, WYO.

First Light at Dale Junction

Within moments after the sun rises over Sherman Hill my vantage point on the East Sherman Granite allows the sun to dance with the Overland Route... (more)

At the End of the Day

Westbound into the sunset, A busy day on the Brush Sub on the High Plains.

Its only just past sunrise, and already its close to eighty degrees in the Mojave Desert, but the heat won't stop hotshot traffic on BNSF's Southern Transcon Route. A Z train is seen splitting thr... (more)

BNSF 5930 (ES44AC) shoves an empty train to the east as a bright and colorful sunrise washes the farm fields with an orange glow.