It’s a rainy day at Montana Rail Link’s Helena Roundhouse, as MRL Machinist Kevin Leonard takes a call as he reflects on what these new EMD locomotives will mean to his job after changing the ... (more)

Passing Amtrak’s Winter Park Express ski train laying over in the siding at Fraser, Colorado, is BNSF’s Provo to Denver priority freight on March 21, 2024.

BNSF’s Provo to Denver priority freight crosses South Boulder Creek as it descends Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision leaving Tolland during a decidedly wintery spring day of April 20, ... (more)

Reflecting late afternoon sunlight onto the waters of Brule Lake at 8:47 p.m. on July 15, 2013, Canadian National train 112 bends through Robertson’s Curve at Swan Landing near Brule, Alberta.

Springtime lilacs are blooming in a roadside park as a southbound BNSF coal train passes an old water tank that once filled CB&Q steam locomotives with water at Gurley, Nebraska, on May 23, 2014.

Snow during springtime in Colorado’s high country is nothing new or unusual. On April 27, 2024, an eastbound Union Pacific coal train heads downgrade between Tolland and Rollinsville along South... (more)

A late season winter storm coats the Front Range with snow as Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr rolls through Pinecliffe, Colorado, on March 27, 2024.

Rocky Mountaineer Railtours “Rockies to the Red Rocks” passenger train approaches Tolland as it climbs toward Colorado’s Moffat Tunnel on April 24, 2024.

Montana Rail Link’s 840 local departs Trident, Montana, on September 21, 2008. In the background on the other side of the Missouri River is the empty, abandoned grade of Milwaukee Road’s Pacif... (more)

A pair of BNSF EMD SD70MACs lead a BNSF coal train westbound over the Clark Fork between Thompson Falls and Belknap, Montana, on September 11, 2010.

Wisconsin Central train 45 heads north (westbound) through Hubertus, Wisconsin, on June 11, 1996, powered by a pair of WC’s F45s and a new Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW.

Led by a quartet of GE C44-9Ws, Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s Denver to Stockton manifest freight climbs out of Rocky, Colorado, on April 23, 2002. In the background sits an eastbound Union Pac... (more)

Tying up
The conductor does some last minute paperwork and the engineer shuts down the power as Watco’s Palouse River & Coulee City freight ties up at Mockonema, Washington, on Septem... (more)

Snow in Colorado is spring isn’t unusual, and another cloaked the Front Range on April 19, 2024. The next day, BNSF’s Provo to Denver priority freight descends Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel ... (more)

Powered by a pair of leased Union Pacific EMD SD70Ms, Rocky Mountaineer’s “Rockies to the Red Rocks” Colorado and Utah excursion train follows the Colorado River moments after exiting 463-fo... (more)