Curving through South Draw: Union Pacific’s Denver to Salt Lake City freight (MDVRO) rumbles through the Tunnel District east of Crescent, Colorado, on the afternoon of October 22, 1999. The power... (more)

Three new Burlington Northern Santa Fe C44-9Ws pull an eastbound stack train at Essex, Montana, meeting a westbound led by warbonnet C44-9W No. 781 on September 9, 1999.

A BNSF coal train heads west between Eddy and Thompson Falls, Montana on the morning of September 19, 2012. Small bits of foam eddy on still water of the Clark Fork in a cove along this scenic str... (more)

One of the few (maybe the only) times a former LS&I Alco RSD-15 “Alligator” led a Fox River Valley train. The freight is approaching Butler Yard on the C&NW and is about to pass under Lovers Lane ... (more)

Amtrak No. 3, the Southwest Chief, is climbing Glorieta Pass at Glorieta, New Mexico, on May 20, 1999. Apparently some power issues further east on the trip has required the assistance of a Burlin... (more)

An eastbound BNSF freight twists around the curves west of Lombard, Montana, on September 15, 2012. Smoke from numerous western wildfires gives the scene a warm and hazy look, but it still can’t t... (more)

At 7:43 p.m. on April 15, 2013, dusk settles in on the fuel track at Union Pacific’s North Yard in Denver, Colorado. Snow is still coming down hard on this tax day blizzard, and the Denver area go... (more)

CP reflections: On the morning of July 24, 2011, an empty Canadian Pacific coal train heads south at McMurdo, British Columbia, on the beautiful Windermere Subdivision.

Chicago and North Western’s yard office at Bill, Wyoming, is where C&NW train crews report to work in Powder River Basin. It is also the workplace of two friendly lady railroaders in the corner of... (more)

A rustic, hand-made sign above the entrance to Chicago and North Western’s yard office in Bill, Wyoming, reads “Through these doors pass the Worlds Greatest Railroaders… That’s the way it is, out ... (more)

Coal mine bound: Chicago and North Western coal trains are staged to head to the mines of Powder River Basin at Bill, Wyoming, on May 12, 1995. A mixture of General Electric AC4400CWs and C44-9Ws ... (more)

On February 7, 2006, a freight powered by Union Pacific 2-8-0 No. 618 approaches Snake Creek at Charleston, Utah, on a photo freight operated by Heber Valley Railroad.

Takin’ down the blue flag: After finishing up his work, an employee of Union Pacific’s fuel track at North Yard in Denver, Colorado, removes the blue flag from AC440CW-CTE No. 5652 as heavy snow c... (more)

In a snowstorm that hit the Denver area on Tax Day 2013, locomotives await servicing at Union Pacific’s North Yard. Some parts of the area received over a foot of wet snow by the time the storm de... (more)

Amtrak No 5, the California Zephyr, passes through a cloud shadow at Rocky, Colorado, on the afternoon of June 25, 2011. “Phase III Heritage” No. 145 leads the tardy westbound train at 6:40 p.m., ... (more)