What does springtime frequently look like in Colorado’s high country? A Union Pacific coal train drops down the two-percent grade just east of Tolland, Colorado, on May 1, 1999. Yes, May Day 1999 ... (more)

Amtrak has taken lease of two complete VIA Rail Stainless Steel train sets - 5 coach/1 Park Car each - and moved them from Montreal to Albany on Sunday, November 18, behind Amtrak P40 822 and P42 ... (more)

Like the setting sun, the days for views like this for passengers, are fading fast. In the not too distant future, the Cascades fares will entitle passengers to views of Dupont, Lakewood and Sou... (more)

The imprudence of a truck driver caused the colision with this chemical, the second engine hit the third one (FXE3025) damaging the fuel tank causing a big fire before to fall down into the bridge... (more)

An eastbound BNSF empty military train (Ft. Lewis, WA-Ft. Hood, TX) with KCS and UP locomotives, rolls under the former Milwaukee Road right of way at Lombard, Montana, on the Montana Rail Link. A... (more)

Penn Central eastbound coal train passes Hunt tower as a pretty college student watches. Many students from the local college (Juniata) used the local train station located just east of the tower.... (more)

A BNSF Kansas City-Pasco manifest freight, with a cut of Boeing 737 fuselages, rolls through Lombard, Montana. The train is passing the bridge over the Missouri River of the abandoned Milwaukee Ro... (more)

A light snowstorm near sunset leaves fresh snow to be kicked up by eastbound empty potash train #672, led by still new GEVo 8946. In the darkest depths of the Canadian winter, a golden glow linger... (more)

Finally mounted to a TTX flat, this slightly battle-worn Amtrak unit should be on her way to a rebuild at Beach Grove. This side is the side that sustained the least amount of damage, the other si... (more)

BNSF 100 entered MAC as a warbonnet and has exited in black and orange. The paint scheme is a sort of H1-H3 hybrid. Mimicking the colors and logo of the H3, but with lines and styling similar to H... (more)

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In a view from the cab of Montana Rail Link SD70ACe No. 4312, the night gas local of September 21, 2006 cruises up MRL’s scenic Tenth Subdivision. Only a small bit of glow from a western sky is st... (more)

A contract worker gives a Montana Rail Link SD70ACe a bath in Helena, Montana. The contractors were used frequently to high-pressure wash, and scrub down MRL's helper locomotives stationed in Hele... (more)

Late morning silhouette: Nevada Northern 2-8-0 No. 93 pulls a short freight over Steptoe Creek fill near East Ely, Nevada on a cold February 8, 2004. NNRy operates these special photo trains for p... (more)

Railroad archeology courtesy of Mother Nature. BNSF's former NP "Shortline" mainline into Duluth hangs high the day after record rainfall blew out a culvert (seen in the distance). The old pilings... (more)