After pushing a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight west out of Denver to the top of the grade in the Moffat Tunnel during a late winter snowstorm, a helper set of two BN GE C30-7s drif... (more)

Beneath the spectacular mountains of Glacier National Park, an eastbound Burlington Northern grain train crosses Two Medicine Bridge at East Glacier, Montana, on March 3, 1988. A trio of EMD SD40-... (more)

A BNSF coal train heads south out of Bill, Wyoming, at the end of a rainy day in Powder River Basin on May 3, 2007.

Rain storms are slowly moving east at the end of a cloudy day in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. As the setting sun drops below the western horizon, a tiny slot of clearing sky silhouettes a north... (more)

It’s almost 9:00 p.m. on the evening of July 16, 1998, at Colorado’s Denver Union Station. Rio Grande EMD GP60s sit on one of the station tracks and are being used as protection power for the ... (more)

Last light
BNSF’s Ayer turn switches at Ayer, Washington, in the very last bit of sunlight on September 19, 2016. The train is operating on trackage rights over Union Pacific’s Spok... (more)

Amid a beautiful autumn in Glacier National Park, a westbound BNSF stack train curves along the Middle Fork of the Flathead River as it exits Tunnel 4 just east of West Glacier (Belton), Montana, ... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s Laurel to Missoula manifest freight passes by the abandoned right-of-way and bridge over the Missouri River of Milwaukee Road’s Pacific Extension main line at the townsite ... (more)

The end of a short rail spur in tiny Hensler, North Dakota, on BNSF’s Zap Subdivision branch line out of Mandan has an unique end-of-track bumper. I’ve never seen one used this way, and I’m ... (more)

Six units—six models
Cruising through scenic Abo Canyon, a westbound Santa Fe freight crosses Bridge 873.8 over Abo Arroyo east of Sais, New Mexico, on the afternoon of June 1, 1995. ... (more)

A westbound Rio Grande freight drops down the steep 3% western grade of Tennessee Pass at Mitchell, Colorado, on July 20, 1990. Leading the train is EMD SD40T-2 “Tunnel Motor” No. 5349, which ... (more)

A Santa Fe stack train dashes across spectacular Canyon Diablo Bridge at Canyon Diablo, Arizona, on April 19, 1990. A “Kodachrome” GE C30-7 leads a pair of EMD SD40-2s and a pair of EMD SD40s ... (more)

Curving out of Fort Steele
Just after changing crews on the wye at Fort Steele, British Columbia, a Canadian Pacific unit potash train curves on the main line toward Crowsnest Pass on th... (more)

Pipeline in the morning
Fog rolling off the Clark Fork dissipates into the warmth of a rising sun and swirls around Montana Rail Link’s westbound day gas local arriving at Pipeline at ... (more)

A railroad never sleeps
At 9:28 p.m. on June 26, 2017, an eastbound BNSF coal train leaves Toston, Montana, as it follows a zig-zagging Missouri River into the darkening confines of Lom... (more)