Near sunset, an eastbound BNSF empty coal train is in Marshall Canyon at Lakeside, Washington, on a sunny May 15, 2010. Marshall Canyon is just southwest of Spokane.

While on my way to Las Vegas for a Super Bowl party, I couldn't help myself but to chase trains on the way up. An eastbound Los Angeles, CA to New York, NY UPS Z-Train hauls out of the Cajon Pass ... (more)

BNSF’s Stockton to Denver manifest freight with a nice clean warbonnet leading passes by in the foreground while encircling Big 10 Curve west of Rocky, Colorado, on September 6, 2001. The freight ... (more)

Amtrak #17 flies westward at 70mph through the big s-curve between Vista and Woodside. US 6/50 is visible in the distance--nothing really vanishes here in the desert. Seen readily in this view is ... (more)

The official low temperature the night before at Pocatello was -6°F, but it was even colder at American Falls, Idaho, the morning of January 21, 2013. A westbound Union Pacific freight crosses th... (more)

MRL4313 helps to lift an export coal load over Mullan Pass, MT. The multiple 10 degree curves at the Austin "loops" add resistance to the heavy unit train as it combats the compensated 2.2% grade.

East bound on the Pokey...

With 54 cars of empty beer cars, a few perishables and intermodal hung on the rear, #144 climbs the 1% grade through the mud hills between Solitude and Floy, Utah, right before sunset in April 198... (more)

Train #146 speeds across the desert at Sphinx with the stunning Book Cliffs providing a surreal backdrop. Photograph made on shoulder of highway 6/50 and clear of railroad property.

Although this line is owned by UP, you would never know by the looks of it. Trackage rights trains from BNSF and UTAH out numbered UP trains 2 to 1... literally, only three trains ran all day.

A westbound manifest assaults the 2.2% grade of Hindman Hill. The railroad uses this shallow box canyon to gain elevation for its climb out of the Snake River watershed near Huntington......

Built in 1925 by the Santa Fe Railway, the causeway bisecting the Los Penasquitos still serves nearly 50 trains per day at speeds up to 90mph. Amtrak 91 pours on the power to spend a couple miles ... (more)

A loaded coal train descends the eastern slope of Tennessee Pass, and is about to pass the west switch for the siding at Princeton. From this angle, the right-of-way of the old Colorado Midland R... (more)

UP 7521 leads the MWCRVB-27 through Marcel on the backside of the Tehachapi Loop on a rainy January afternoon.

As seen from inside a long-abandoned gas station along the old Lincoln Highway (later, U.S. Highway 30) at James Town (west of Green River), Wyoming, a Union Pacific stack train descends Peru Hill... (more)