WINDY POINT COLORADO? Nope... Windy Point, British Columbia. It is absolutely remarkable how much the two spots look alike. Undoubtably, this spot on the former BC Rail was named after the ... (more)

KCS on the Moffat Two Kansas City Southern SD70ACE Belles lead a westbound up the Big Ten curves.....Kanasa City Southern units always add a splash of color to the Moffat Road on there inf... (more)

CN crossing the Thompson River in the Black Canyon. The leader is CN8907 in the current CN paint scheme, second is a classic striped Cowl C40-8M.

A Canadian National stack train clings to the shore line of Kamloops Lake. The lake is 18 miles long and the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National hug opposite shores for most of that distance..... (more)

The Rocky Mountaineer takes a trip up the ex BC Rail near Glen Fraser, BC. The train has just rounded a 14 degree curve and passed under the wooden highway 99 overpass. The locomotive is a GMD bui... (more)

Spring of 2014 was fantastic on Tehachapi. Shiny new locomotives were everywhere, and the hills were extremely green, with wild flowers blooming........A bran-new UP2598 screams up Tehachapi Pass ... (more)

Nothing but Rock! A gorgeous June morning sees a BNSF manifest clinging to the cliff as it pounds up the 2% grade towards the Continental Divide. David Moffat's dream of a railroad west from Den... (more)

Most people do not think desert, when they think Canada. However, near Ashcroft, BC it is cactus, rattlesnakes and HEAT. On this day the thermometer hovered around 100 degrees as this CP Potash lo... (more)

A Canadian National stack train crosses the Thompson River at Lytton, BC. It is here at Lytton the Thompson and Fraser Rivers collide. Lytton was a crossroads and important stop on the early roads... (more)

DRGW489 steams up the grade towards Cumbres Pass. The 4% climb up the Rockies north of Cham, NM is perhaps the best steam show in North America!

BNSF 1078 rounds the first great loop at Austin, Montana with a heavy grain load. BNSF 1058 wears the BNSF paint scheme inspired by the Great Northern. I always thought BNSF got the paint rite the... (more)

Storm clouds are starting to gather over the Tehachapi Mountains as another lumber drag climbs south. The Tehachapi Mountains can sometimes be a very soggy place in March, bring out spectacular gr... (more)

For a short time in the Summer of 2011 you could ride a train from Chama, New Mexico to Antonito, CO, then board a standard gauge train and ride all the way to La, Veta all behind steam. SLRG 18 ... (more)

A heavy manifest screams up the 2.2% grade approaching Iron Ridge. The heavy manifest has a cut-in set of MRL manned helpers that can be seen smoking it up on the right side of the photo.

CN5799 rolls thru the rock sheds along the Thompson River. This portion of the canyon is perhaps one of the most treacherous.... The almost vertical scree slope made it necessary to build artifici... (more)