BNSF’s Cowley turn rolls through stark Himes Canyon at Himes, Wyoming, on June 26, 2018, powered by BNSF EMD SD70MAC Nos. 9709 and 9878. This local operates on weekdays out of Greybull on BNSF’s C... (more)

A westbound BNSF Q train works upgrade out of Austin as it climbs Montana Rail Link’s arduous Mullan Pass west of Helena, Montana, on June 26, 2020.

Southern Pacific’s westbound KCOAF (Kansas City to Oakland Forwarder) negotiates the canyon between Pando and Red Cliff, on August 2, 1996. Two GE AC4400CW locomotives from the Minturn helper pool... (more)

Canadian National intermodal train 112 departs Henry House, Alberta, on CN’s Edson Subdivision in Jasper National Park on the afternoon of July 17, 2013.

Along the sheer cliffs of Sheep Canyon
Returning to the home terminal at Greybull, Wyoming, BNSF’s Cowley turn curves around a sheer rock cliff in scenic Sheep Canyon as it passes milep... (more)

At Union Pacific’s Kansas City Locomotive Facility on October 22, 2013, a pair of machinists replace a power assembly in prime mover of Helm Leasing Corp. (HLCX) EMD GP38-2 No. 3849. An overhead c... (more)

A BNSF local freight, led by Burlington Northern EMD GP15-1 No. 1390. is about to roll through a curve after crossing the bridge over the Shoshone River at Lovell, Wyoming, on September 2, 1998. B... (more)

Led by EMD SD70MACe No. 9749, a westbound BNSF manifest freight curves though the big cut on double track between Granite and Athol, Idaho, on February 4, 2021.

A welder works on Helm Financial Corp. (HLCX) EMD GP38-2 No. 3837 at the boilermakers area inside the vast halls of Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 18,... (more)

Wintery Columbia River Gorge
Looking back from the sleeper on Amtrak’s westbound Pioneer reveals that we just passed a westbound Union Pacific freight train in Goff siding in a wintery C... (more)

Burlington Northern SD9 No. 6100 rests overnight at Rochelle, Illinois, on February 17, 1996. The vintage locomotive was built by EMD In February 1954 as Great Northern No. 573, equipped without d... (more)

Along the old Colorado Midland
After Union Pacific closed Colorado’s Tennessee Pass as a through route on August 23, 1997, it still operated a once-a-week local from Pueblo to Malta, ne... (more)

Snow is beginning to fly and obscures Sandpoint, Idaho, on the afternoon of February 4, 2021, as a westbound BNSF stack train off the Hi Line crosses the long bridge over Lake Pend Oreille and is ... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s 840 local, the Helena local operates out of Helena on weekdays and serves the cement plants at Montana City and Townsend. On June 25, 2020, MRL GP9 No. 109 and SD40-2XR No. 263... (more)

Workers from Union Pacific’s Kansas City Locomotive Facility prepare to fix a water leak on UP EMD SD70ACe No. 8385 on the afternoon of October 22, 2013.