Montana Rail Link’s LM (Laurel to Missoula freight) climbs Bozeman Pass east of Muir, Montana. Eight EMD SD45/SD45-2 locomotives racking up an impressive 28,800 horsepower pulls the train. A set o... (more)

Two machinists work on an EMD HTCR-II truck used under SD70M locomotives during the rebuild process in the truck shop at Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks locomotive shop at North Little Rock, Arka... (more)

Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr climbs toward Big 10 Curve west of Rocky, Colorado, on September 27, 2019.

Westbound Canadian National manifest freight train 355 crawls along the Thompson River traversing awe-inspiring White Canyon between Morris and Lasha, British Columbia, on September 27, 2015. Unst... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe stack train drops downgrade through Marias, Montana, on September 9, 1999, powered by BN SD40-2 No. 7031, former Santa Fe SD40-2 No. 6753, BN SD40-2 No. 80... (more)

Still looking good in warbonnet dress, Santa Fe GE C44-9W No. 638 leads a westbound grain train past the mile 208.6 semaphore at Donlan between St. Regis and Paradise, Montana, on the morning of S... (more)

EMD locomotives from Kansas City Southern and Union Pacific lead a westbound BNSF unit oil train over the fill exiting Tunnel 16 in South Draw east of Crescent, Colorado, on April 24, 2019.

Amtrak’s California Zephyr cruises through Tolland on the bright autumn day of September 26, 2019, as the aspens change to their golden colors in the high country of Colorado.

Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western’s wayfreight departs Wilton, North Dakota, on August 27, 2018. Leading the train is one of DMV&W’s former Canadian National EMD SD50F cowls, No. 5408, which is th... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe intermodal train glides across the large bridge over Cut Bank Creek at Cut Bank, Montana, on the morning of September 23, 2002.

A trio of Burlington Northern EMD SD70MACs power a westbound coal train in the yard at Sterling, Colorado, after a passing storm on April 12, 1998.

Under a brilliant Wyoming sunset south of Bill, a Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train heads out of the Powder River Basin on June 29, 2002.

A Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train heads south on the Orin Line at sunset south of Bill, Wyoming, on June 29, 2002.

A Union Pacific coal train is eastbound in Little Gore Canyon east of Azure, Colorado, on June 6, 2013. The train is exiting 63-foot Tunnel 40, the shortest tunnel on UP’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivisio... (more)

The day after a big Front Range snowstorm, Amtrak’s California Zephyr works westbound through Crescent, Colorado, on March 20, 1998. Two new bi-level cars for San Diego Coaster service are deadhea... (more)