The Rio Grande Ski Train approaches Tunnel 1 just east of Plainview, Colorado, early on the morning of December 28, 2000. A third EMD Ski Train EMD F40PH is out for maintenance, with Rio Grande EM... (more)

Beyond its isolated cab, the EMD SD75I is pretty much identical to a SD75M. The way to tell the difference between the two is by the vertical gap or seam over the nose that identifies it as an iso... (more)

The fireman briefly opens the firebox doors and throws a scoop full of coal into the firebox of Nevada Northern Railway’s 2-8-0 No. 93 at Keystone, Nevada, on February 7, 2004

A Montana Rail Link empty ballast train heads upgrade to the loader at Spire Rock at Pipestone, Montana, on October 3, 2022. This train is operating on a portion of the old Northern Pacific main l... (more)

A trio of Rio Grande EMD GP40-2 take Union Pacific’s West local eastbound out of Rocky, Colorado, back to Denver on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision on October 18, 2001.

A westbound Utah Railway coal train storms over the top of the grade at Soldier Summit, Utah, on February 1, 2007. The train is led by a quartet of unique EMD/MK50-3 locomotives.

On the afternoon of June 28, 2022, a westbound BNSF grain train climbs Montana Rail Link’s crossing of Mullan Pass. Below in the background shadows is the rear DPU of the train going through Aus... (more)

A quartet of SD60MACs were built by EMD to test Siemens alternating current traction equipment and the builder’s HTCR-II radial (steerable) truck. Constructed on a 74-foot frame, the 3,800 hp SD... (more)

Rolling eastbound expeditiously on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision is a BNSF coal train approaching the west switch at Craver, Montana, on a sunny October 8, 2020, morning.

Even in Utah desert country, the Price River brings autumn colors to the short canyon between Mounds and Wash on the afternoon of October 6, 2004. Curving through the scene is a trio of Rio Grande... (more)

Led by EMD GP60M No. 125, Santa Fe’s 791 train enters Houlihan’s Curve west of Chillicothe, Illinois, as it quickly descends Edelstein Hill on May 11, 1991.

An eastbound Rio Grande freight departs Glenwood Springs, Colorado, on July 6, 1987. A pair of EMD SD40T-2s bracket a newer EMD SD50 for power on the train that is paralleling a nearly empty I-70 ... (more)

The long-awaited EMD 265H 6,000 horsepower engine finally made its debut in September 1996. The SD90MAC-H can be identified by dual exhaust stacks of the twin-turbo 265H engine, and beveled edges ... (more)

Mixed train on the Harrison branch (sort of)
Montana Rail Link’s 844 local out of Logan, Montana, is slowly working upgrade on the Harrison branch on October 4, 2022. Besides the two c... (more)

BNSF GE ET44C4 No. 3927 and C44-9W No. 5247 lead a westbound coal train along the Clark Fork between Noxon and Heron, Montana, on the perfect afternoon of October 2, 2021. Both leaders are not rea... (more)