An eastbound BNSF coal empty runs along the siding at Trout Creek, Montana, and passes the wye and spur that once served a lumber facility on February 12, 2024.

On March 20, 1949, the first run of the original California Zephyr departed Chicago, Illinois, bound for the west coast. A 75th anniversary run of the westbound California Zephyr, Amtrak’s train... (more)

Amtrak GE P42DC No. 174 has been repainted in Phase VII colors and leads the Winter Park Express ski train at Fraser, Colorado, on March 21, 2024.

Running a 35 minutes behind the California Zephyr is Amtrak’s eastbound Winter Park Express ski train, returning from Winter Park, and has just exited Tunnel 1 at Plainview, Colorado, at 6:27 p.... (more)

Amtrak’s eastbound California Zephyr has just exited Tunnel 1 at aptly-named Plainview, Colorado, late in the afternoon of March 22, 2024. Leading the train is recently-repainted GE P42DC No. 82... (more)

Amtrak GE P42DC No. 82 has been repainted in the new Phase VII paint scheme and leads the westbound California Zephyr as it approaches Plainview, Colorado, on March 19, 2024.

On March 15, 2024, the lounge car attendant of Amtrak’s Winter Park Express enjoys a moment of fresh air and gives us a friendly wave as she checks out the 42-inch snowfall at Crescent the morni... (more)

Amtrak’s Winter Park Express heads west through Crescent, Colorado, the morning after a big Front Range snowstorm to the delight of the skiers aboard that are ready to hit the slopes of Winter P... (more)

Led by Montana Rail Link GP9 No. 111, MRL’s Paradise Local, chants through the former Northern Pacific semaphores at mile 207.3 at Donlan, Montana, on October 6, 2005. These blades were the last... (more)

Florida East Coast train 226 flies along the Dixie Highway (also known as U.S. Highway 1) between Magnolia and Bayard, Florida, on the morning of January 11, 2015. Jacksonville-bound No. 226 is le... (more)

Crescent, Colorado, received 42 inches of snow in a major Front Range storm on March 13-14, 2024. On the morning after the blizzard, BNSF’s Provo to Denver priority freight rolls eastbound on Un... (more)

Amtrak train 6, the eastbound California Zephyr, passes through 463-foot Tunnel 42 as it follows the Colorado River just east of Radium, Colorado, on the afternoon of June 19, 2023.

At 5:58 p.m. on June 15, 1991, Conrail GE C40-8W leads a westbound CR freight through a curve just west of Otis, Indiana, on the railroad’s busy Chicago to Elkhart main line.

The skeleton of an old, fallen tree descends into an icy Clark Fork on February 9, 2024, and is passed by a westbound BNSF grain train crossing Bridge 62 over the inlet of Swamp Creek at Tuscor, M... (more)

Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western’s “wayfreight” passes milepost 485 on the north side of Lake Sakakawea as it approaches Garrison, North Dakota, on the afternoon of August 31, 2018.