Dropping downgrade off Winston Hill, Montana Rail Link’s Helena switch leans into a curve approaching Townsend, Montana, with two cars for the lime plant north of town on June 30, 2017. Nice to ... (more)

At sunrise on October 8, 2024, a westbound Union Pacific freight slowly climbs Peru Hill west of Green River, Wyoming.

Quintessential Santa Fe
Santa Fe’s 198 train barrels through Toluca, Illinois, at 6:05 p.m. on May 11, 1991. The scene is classic Santa Fe—piggyback flying over double track high ir... (more)

Led by repainted Union Pacific GE AC4400CW-CTE No. 5904 is a northbound UP coal empty scurrying over Logan Hill at Logan north of Bill, Wyoming, on July 14, 2024. On Track 4 on the right, there ar... (more)

This is Nebraska?
Within the 94,000 acre Oglala National Grassland in western Nebraska is the stark and other-worldly Toadstool Geologic Park located northwest of the town of Crawford. ... (more)

Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr is about to plunge into Tunnel 42 just east of Radium, Colorado, on June 24, 2024.

Passing by the Absaroka Range south of Livingston is an eastbound BNSF train rolling through Elton, Montana, on the afternoon of June 30, 2024.

Union Pacific’s freight operating between Grand Junction and Denver (MGJNY), crosses the Colorado River just east of Burns, Colorado, on the morning of June 26, 2024. This location on the Dotser... (more)

BNSF’s Helena local crosses over a bridge spanning a small tributary of Prickly Pear Creek as it approached East Helena, Montana, in late afternoon light on July 9, 2024. Leading the train is Mo... (more)

At 7:08 p.m. on a pretty July 3, 2024, a westbound BNSF manifest freight rolls over the curved causeway between Noxon and Heron, Montana, on BNSF’s former Montana Rail Link Fourth Subdivision.

Montana’s Horse Gulch fire, first reported earlier this day north of Canyon Ferry Lake, continues to grow and begins to lay down smoke to the west as sunset nears on July 9, 2024. Nearby on the ... (more)

Six months after BNSF reclaimed Montana Rail Link, the Helena local still looked like the train of a recent blue past. On July 9, 2024, the local is powered with MRL SD40-2XR No. 262 leading vener... (more)

On July 14, 2024, BNSF’s Laurel to Denver freight follows the Bighorn River past milepost 414 through Sheep Canyon between Spence and Stucco, Wyoming. In only a few more miles and the train wil... (more)

On July 6, 2024, a BNSF coal train rolls westbound over the curved causeway between Noxon and Heron, Montana. Many of Montana Rail Link’s 4300-series EMD SD70ACe locomotive can be seen operating... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific oil train passes through Azure, Colorado, as it enters rugged Gore Canyon on Union Pacific’s scenic Moffat Tunnel Subdivision on June 24, 2024.