ATSF SD45-2 5850 leads a train upgrade at the summit of Cajon Pass in 1993.

The first of 16 trains we would catch that day while camped track (and river) side at Towal, WA.

A westbound Union Pacific coal train slows to enter the passing siding at Reed to meet a passenger special coming east from Milford, Utah.

Eastbound

A westbound Canadian Pacific coal train curves along the Thompson River at Martel, British Columbia, on July 6, 2004.

The massive and beautiful Joso bridge has been well represented on RP lately. Last July 4th, I was nervously watching the sun drop, knowing a southbound train was coming. It showed up with just in... (more)

A Canadian National westbound leaves Boston Bar, British Columbia, and crosses the Anderson River Bridge on a trip through the Fraser River Canyon on September 27, 2001. The train is led by SD60F ... (more)

Captured during the 'Golden Hour', the second section of Rio Grande train #52 climbs the 1.1% Westward Main Track along the Mapleton Bench east of Springville, Utah.

Passenger train №342 Chisinau - Moscow

A meet and a pass . . . the Rio Grande Ski Train is westbound out of Rocky, Colorado, on the cloudy morning of June 28, 2008. It just met a Union Pacific coal empty at Rocky siding, and is about t... (more)

An Allegro EMU powered train descends the amazing Brusio Spiral, one of the many rail wonders of the Rhatischen Railway. Getting to the "postcard view" of the Brusio Spiral is no picnic, one must ... (more)

A UP stack train heads eastbound on Track 2 through Palisade Canyon, Nevada, on March 7, 2012. Both Southern Pacific and Western Pacific built their main lines through here alongside the Humbolt R... (more)

Freight train arrives from Villach at 'Oberfalkenstein Brücke' The Tauern Railway (German: Tauernbahn) is an Austrian railway line between Schwarzach-Sankt Veit in the state of Salzburg and Spitt... (more)

Southbound WP&Y Train 2 with three specially-built GE units (Nos. 98, 97, 92) is now in Alaska and USA territory and exits the only tunnel on the 110-mile line twenty-one miles after leaving the 2... (more)