An eastbound Union Pacific coal train heads downgrade through Tolland, Colorado, on the sunny morning of September 25, 2000.

On September 15, 2002, the Royal Canadian Pacific luxury passenger train rolls through a broad curve north of Aldersyde, Alberta, on the CP’s Aldersyde Subdivision between Lethbridge and Calgary... (more)

Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr traces the Colorado River through scenic Ruby Canyon between Shale and Utaline, Colorado, on the afternoon of June 23, 2021. The Sightseer Lounge would be a ... (more)

A pair of Union Pacific EMD SD70ACes lay down a nice black smoke screen as they approach the top of Wyoming’s Logan Hill with a coal empty on the afternoon of July 10, 2022.

A longer than usual station stop at Glenwood Springs, Colorado, due to track-and-time in Glenwood Canyon just ahead allows everyone a little extra time to get some fresh air and stretch your legs ... (more)

A snowmobiler offers a friendly wave as Fox River Valley Railroad’s Proviso to Green Bay (PRGBA) freight passes over a bridge at Kewaskum, Wisconsin, on January 27, 1991. The train is powered by... (more)

The dreary spring day of April 10, 1988, is brightened up by a Burlington Northern freight approaching the junction at Plum River near Savanna, Illinois. The eastbound train is powered by BN EMD G... (more)

Still adorned in Illinois Central Gulf orange-and-white colors, Chicago Central & Pacific GP8 No. 7985 and GP10 No. 8188 lead a CC train around a curve at 55th Street Interlocking on the Belt Rail... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD SD60M No. 9249 leads a coal train toward Alliance, Nebraska, at East Bonner on July 25, 1992.

A westbound Union Pacific freight slowly makes its way upgrade on Peru Hill between Green River and Peru, Wyoming, on the morning of June 26, 2021.

All the westbound BNSF heavies have been pushed up Mullan Pass at night into first light before a long work window begins west of Helena, Montana, on July 7, 2022. The last Montana Rail Link helpe... (more)

An eastbound BNSF freight heads up the Clark Fork River Valley on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision main line between Heron and Noxon, Montana, on the afternoon of February 24, 2015. I bit ... (more)

Chicago & North Western EMD GP15-1 No. 4410 and EMD GP7 No. 4144 tug at a long string of coal gons out of the east end of Proviso Yard on September 1, 1991. The train is approaching the 25th Avenu... (more)

Colorado & Southern 3-foot narrow gauge boxcar No. 8311 displays its weathered billboard lettering at Como, Colorado, on the afternoon of August 24, 2021.

This roundhouse was built in 1881 by Italian stonemasons for the Denver, South Park & Pacific Railway as part of the facilities needed for their division point of Como, Colorado. The original six-... (more)