Changing of the Guard: After 140 years the guard has changed on Mt. Washington. Starting this summer steam will be only used on one trip a day up the mountain, while John Deere Built locomotives s... (more)

A BNSF freight makes its way along the Columbia River in September of 2009. On the otherside of the Gorge, a Union Pacific stack train can be seen.

Nelson Street Railway: Sixty years after it was first retired and sold off to become a dog kennel and later a chicken coop, Nelson Street Railway car No. 23 looks great along the shores of ... (more)

The Last American Logger: Some trains may haul logs, but if you get technical (and railfans often do) Shelton, Wash. is the last place in America to see a traditional logging railroad at wo... (more)

On the first day of March 2009, an eastbound BNSF grain train descends Evaro Hill on Montana Rail Link's 10th Sub. Just a few short weeks ago a derailment on MRLs 4th west of Missoula forced train... (more)

Having just flanged the line from Greenwich to Eagle Bridge, Batten Kill RS-3 4116 picked up a cut of cars for the Cargil mill at Greenwich Jct from the CP interchange. But before those cars can b... (more)

A Touch of Class: A few decades ago, a railfan standing trackside likely wouldn't even have lifted the camera to capture an image like this - a caboose on the tail end of a train. But for a railfa... (more)

Just a stones throw from the University of Montana campus in Missoula, is this fine view overlooking Hellgate Canyon and the Montana Rail Link main line as it enters town. Here a westbound BNSF co... (more)

Two St. Maries River Railroad GP9s head west with 26 cars for the Union Pacific interchange at Plummer, Idaho on March 31, 2010.

In near whiteout conditions, Maine Eastern M420 3573, of CN and St. Lawrence and Atlantic heritage, breaks trail through Bath, Maine on the morning of December 22, 2010. Behind the short local is ... (more)

"See America First" For 87 years, the Empire Builder has brought passengers from all around the world to Northwest Montana to see the wonders of Glacier National Park and it was s... (more)

With the sun shinning for the first time in days in the northern Rockies, Montana Rail Link could not have picked a better day then Saturday, Febuary 7, 2009 to operate a passenger extra between M... (more)

Wildflowers and an Alco - 2: The rhythmic chirp of an American Locomotive Co. built RS-3 fills the valley on this late summer afternoon and for a moment all is right with the world, as Batten Kill... (more)

The Empire Builder: Amtrak train No. 7, the Empire Builder, rounds the curve just east of West Glacier, Mont. on the evening of June 26, 2011. That summer, flooding in North Dakota caused t... (more)

In a scene that could be out of 1969, rather then 2009, BKRR RS-3 605 works south at Cambridge, New York on August 10, 2009.