The beauty of the Columbia River basin is ruined by the Union Pacific's lack of pride in the appearance of UP 5462!

On its return to Wilkie Saskatchewan Southbound CP Lloydminster wayfreight with 3 SD's crosses the Battle River Valley.

I'll take a cloudy sky if it means a crisp reflection in the water. About a minute later, a speedboat cruised by and sent ripples across the entire inlet.

Screaming up the .6% grade at 15MPH, two recently activated SD60M's have a 71 car Ross Turn in tow passing a field of harvested wheat.

KCS 4768 has its empty rock train up to track speed as they approach the detector at MP 666.7 in the middle of cotton fields south of New Deal.

"Lady Liberty" leads a coal train around track 2 at Horseshoe Curve, loaded at Bailey Mine, and bound for Baltimore. Photo by Casey Thomason. For more information, visit more)

Montana Rail Link F45 no. 390 leads the westbound LM (Laurel-Missoula freight) at Rock Creek (east of Clinton), Montana. I'm glad I was able to photograph this train as it was the last time I shot... (more)

Alsthom 1901 returns from the Aveiro harbour after unload the cement.

An eastbound coal train led by three Rio Grande Tunnel Motors curves through the stark, lunar-like landscape approaching Floy, Utah, on August 4, 1996. This is a view from a peak in the Bookcliffs... (more)

Elephant style warbonnets lead a stack train through Alma early in the morning.

Montana Rail Link F45 No. 391, on the point of MRL’s LM freight, glints off the still waters of the Missouri River in Lombard Canyon, Montana, on the afternoon of September 11, 1995. The train has... (more)

UP 9912 drops down across Rock Creek trestle, deep in Feather River Canyon.

2 minutes before sunset, a golden glint lights the side of a BNSF eastbound Q train as it approaches Rio Puerco,NM on 9/19/12.