A westbound BNSF windmill extra from Memphis rolls along the Missouri River near Lombard, Montana. This is Montana Rail Link's 2nd Subdivision.

A northbound BNSF coal train heads across a fill just south of Bill, Wyoming. The Powder River Basin is a great place to catch beautiful sunsets.

UP's freight MRONY curves through Pinecliffe (Cliff siding on the railroad) on a snowy spring day in the Colorado Rockies.

Steam and smoke seems to erupt from every surface of Nevada Northern 4-6-0 No. 40 while on Steptoe Creek fill just outside East Ely, Nevada, during sunrise on February 4, 2007.

GR 12 # 2402 and GL26C-2 # 2005 and 2010 started the ascent from the Salar de Ascotan to the hill before reaching Salar de Carcote. Trainload from Mejillones to Ollagüe (-San Cristóbal mine) was... (more)

After leaving the border station of Ollagüe, the heavy train with lead/zinc/silver concentrates in round containers, pulled by GL26C-2 # 2005 and 2010 and GR12 # 2405, is passing the active volca... (more)

Great Salt Lake crossing
An eastbound Union Pacific freight begins the long trek across Great Salt Lake at Lakeside, Utah. A wood trestle used to carry the line straight across directly... (more)

15,000 GE horses
Four C30-7s and a U30C dressed in Burlington Northern’s Cascade green and black, pull an eastbound coal train just east of Newcastle, Wyoming, on a hot July 3, 1989. ... (more)

On September 15, 1992, a westbound Santa Fe freight crosses Canyon Diablo bridge in Arizona. Eight locomotives almost fill the length of the bridge, and include SF30C (a rebuilt U36C by Santa Fe) ... (more)

The date is September 15, 1985, and it may be Union Pacific by this time, but the locomotive tracks at Yard Center in Dolton, Illinois, sure look like Missouri Pacific. And not a yellow one to be ... (more)

A Conrail GP40 leads a westbound steel train at Tunnelhill, Pennsylvania, amid the autumn color of October 23, 1988. Conrail No. 3005 is a former New York Central GP40 of the same road number buil... (more)

Only days old after being built, Santa Fe SD75M No. 222 pauses for a drink of fuel at Belen, New Mexico, on June 2, 1995. These SD75Ms were the last locomotives built for the Santa Fe before the m... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific coal empty rumbles by the east switch at Clay, Colorado, with seven AC4400CWs leading the way on April 29, 2009.

Springtime in Glacier
A BNSF stack train heads east at Grizzly, Montana, on the beautiful spring morning of June 4, 2002. The snow-covered peaks of Glacier National Park tower in the ba... (more)

Rio Grande F9 5771 lights up the night shortly after being restored in original 4-stripe Grande gold and silver at the Colorado Railroad Museum.