Two Centennials and a DD35B provide plenty of power for this merchandise freight passing through Laramie, WY.

Note the 8444 simmering down the track with an excursion special. Year un... (more)

Date is approximate

A westbound Empire Builder heads down Marias Pass with 5 units ...

As I remember it, this was near Kimball NE (somewhere in Western NE, at least, possibly between Kimball and Dix) in 1956.

From the window of an 8444 Excursion Special in probably 1968, an eastbound UP passenger train, either the City of Portland or, due to its length, maybe the City of Everywhere combin... (more)

A freight train approaching Brighton Park from the west. This is the ex-IC/GMO/SP route into Chicago, and is (or was) the escape route (from Chicago) of several Amtrak trains. Yet it's much less... (more)

It's a cold March morning as an IC train negotiates the area south of downtown Chicago. The ballfields to the right used to be the service pit for Warbonnet locomotives in charge of the AT&SF Chi... (more)

Heading toward Jasper

Out of the steam from BP's massive Whiting refinery comes a CP ethanol train, led by cherry red SOO 6049.

Approaching the Alberta/British Columbia border and the summit of Kicking Horse Pass.

CEFX 1026 is the back-end help of this potash train bound for Vancouver. It has just helped the train negotiate Kicking Horse Pass and both Spiral Tunnels, and now approaches Field, BC, where the... (more)

Crossing the Columbia as the skies open and rain begins to pour down.

Potash bound for the Port of Vancouver works its way along the Bow River, up the Kicking Horse Pass, over the Continental Divide on one of the most scenic routes in the world.