BNSF light power waits in the hole at Wagon Mound for Amtrak #3 to pass by. Lucky for us the engineer was a railfan as well and stopped the power by the blades for a nice photo op!

An eastbound BNSF grain train rolls along the Clark Fork River near Eddy,MT on Montana Rail Links 4th Sub.

Montana Rail Link's 'Day Gas' local blasts through the small town of Ravalli,MT heading back to Missoula on MRL's 10th Subdivision.

Montana Rail Link manned helpers assist a westbound BNSF coal train across Mullan Pass as they cross Greenhorn Trestle on MRL's 3rd Sub.

The thick smoke from wildfires further west subsides briefly to allow the sun to illuminate a westbound BNSF manifest working its way past Kootenai Falls on BNSF's Kootenai Subdivision between Whi... (more)

BNSF DPU's shove a westbound grain train through serene Trout Creek Montana

Rolling north on BNSF's Spanish Peaks Subdivision is a Union Pacific welded rail train curving through the old town of Ludlow,CO.

A BNSF coal train climbs the east slope of MRL's Bozeman Pass during a wet summer snowstorm

A four pack of Montana Rail Link SD70ACe's help a westbound BNSF manifest up the 2.2% grade of Mullan Pass at near Austin,MT on a gorgeous Tuesday morning. Another set of MRL EMD's can be seen in ... (more)

Norfolk Southern coal empties pass under the coal tower as they depart Farm

Number 19...Its taken 10 years but I finally caught NS #1067 leading something. Some locomotives just completely evade the southeast unlike others. NS #224 (Jax - KC) eases down the yard lead from... (more)

CSX coal loads ease down the stiff grade on the former C&O Loup Creek Branch now operated by RJ Corman. This train is operating as Z549 and will turn into T206 once it gets onto home rails at Thur... (more)

After a nicely timed rolling meet with northbound M2Z (extra 12Z), southbound manifest 11Z accelerates out of the valley and past the CPL's at Arcadia,VA.

A quartet of TTI B36-7's bring a loaded coal train north through Carlisle,KY bound for barge loading at Maysville

KN36 passes through Gulf Junction leaving Elmore Yard on its way north for loading at Dickinson