On a cold November morning, a loaded military train climbs eastward towards the summit of Yampai as it passes through Nelson Canyon on the Hualapai Reservation.

With fresh powder on the Arizona Divide, an orange Dash-9 pulls an LA Harbor stack train through the college town of Flagstaff, Ariz. as a westbound train grinds up the mountain grade.

After holding in the siding to let an intermodal train pass, this 120 car loaded coal train grinds up the hill of Keenesburg, CO on BNSF's Brush Subdivision. Shortly, the weight of 17,000 tons of ... (more)

The DP motors of a load sand train slowly crawl into the siding of Broomfield where a fuel truck will meet them as the one of the DP motors has only 700 gallons of fuel left.

A loaded sand train, bound for Ft. Collins, has stalled on the hill in Westminster. Fortunately, the Denver Road Foreman was able to drive out and check the DP motors (shown here) and learn that t... (more)

Amtrak #933, test train for the Amtrak's Charger locomotives, descend down Raton Pass just north of the namesake New Mexico town. July, 2019.

UP 1943 (The Spirit of the Union Pacific) leads a 13 car officer special over the scenic Moffat Tunnel Line in August, 2019. Here, the officer special slows down to meet a loaded coal train at Rol... (more)

Snow has begun to fall near Barr Lake as a loaded coal train, pulled by a pair ex-BN MACs, begins to charge up to speed after slowing for a 10 MPH temporary speed restriction. A scene like this wa... (more)

Like a scene from the late 1990's, a pair of ex-BN executive MACs pull a 120 car Halsted, TX coal load over the hill of Keensburg, CO on a storm, cold, winter day.

A trio of GP39-3s haul a Longmont, CO to Denver, CO extra manifest train across the rolling landscape just north of Boulder, CO on a chilly January evening.

The smell of hot brake shoes is strong as 92 car loads of oil descend down two percent grade of Coal Creek Canyon along UP's Moffat Tunnel Route. The six locomotives (3x3) fight against gravity to... (more)

The Hudson Turn races westward across the farm lands of Keenesburg, CO as it heads back to its home yard of 31 St. Yard in Denver.

A loaded oil train descend down the Palmer Divide rumbles through Colorado Springs on a chilly December afternoon.

The absolute last rays of light peak over the mountains that surround Kingman, Ariz. as three GE motors hustle a Los Angeles, Calif. to Memphis, Tenn. intermodal train around the longest, continuo... (more)

UPS Peak Season is in full swing on railroad. Seen from the walls of Kingman Canyon, 7,600 ft of UPS cargo races across Arizona as six motors ( five online, one for backup), pull the second sectio... (more)