The Continental Divide looms overhead and autumn is making its presence known in Colorado’s high country as Union Pacific’s MGJNY freight rolls downgrade after exiting the 6.21-mile Moffat Tun... (more)

The “Rockies to the Red Rocks” Rocky Mountaineer passenger train rolls westbound through Tolland, Colorado, on September 13, 2023.

A BNSF coal train follows the Clark Fork on Montana Rail Link’s fourth Subdivision main line between Noxon amd Heron, Montana, on September 17, 2011.

Fill ’er up at Washburn
Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western’s wayfreight pauses for fuel at Wilton, North Dakota, on August 27, 2018. Leading the train is one of DMV&W’s former Cana... (more)

Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr follows the Colorado River through rugged Gore Canyon as it approaches Azure, Colorado, on September 20, 2023. The train is about to enter 100-foot Tunnel 38... (more)

Canadian National train 412 soars over Prairie Creek Bridge into Hinton, Alberta, on July 18, 2013. The eastbound train, led by GE ES44DC No. 2248, is heavy with the usual lumber loads.

At Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, A welder from the boiler shop (boilermaker by trade) carefully repairs a locomotive snow plow on May 19, 2015. In the bac... (more)

Union Pacific EMD SD70M No. 4353 pauses under the protective shed covering the service tracks on the northeast side of the large Downing B Jenks Shop in North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 19, 201... (more)

It looks like it’ll be a while before Union Pacific EMD GP40 No. 651 is roadworthy again as it sits during a rebuild at the railroad’s Downing B Jenks Shop in North Little Rock, Arkansas, on M... (more)

The Rocky Mountaineer Railtours passenger train climbs toward the Moffat Tunnel just east of Tolland, Colorado, along South Boulder Creek on September 13, 2023.

An eastbound BNSF manifest freight follows the Colorado River through Little Gore Canyon just east of Radium, Colorado, on June 6, 2013.

A westbound BNSF coal train rolls through a curve approaching Rapids, Montana, on Montana rail Link’s Second Subdivision main line west of Laurel on the afternoon of October 17, 2018.

A machinist checks the progress of the axle one wheel of a GE ES44AC that he is carefully cutting with a lathe on the wheel track inside the Diesel Shop at Union Pacific’s Bailey Yard at North P... (more)

Canadian National train 304, powered by CN ES44DC No. 2294, rolls through the scenic curve departing Swan Landing, Alberta, on the afternoon of July 19, 2013.

Lone Canadian National GE ES44AC No. 2807 leads CN coal train train No. 799 westbound past Windy Point west of Devona, Alberta, on the beautiful afternoon of July 11, 2014.