Threading the Humboldt River in remote Palisade Canyon eastbound grain empties ride former Western Pacific iron en route to a crew change in Elko, Nevada. Coming in second place to lay rail throug... (more)

A westbound mixed freight rolls west through scenic Echo Canyon, just east of the Canyon's namesake.

A pair of Utah Railway geeps hang out over the Weber River, on former Rio Grande iron, while switching the joint Utah Rwy/Utah Central yard in Ogden.

Union Pacific's eastbound 'Wendover Hauler' begins to cut across the salt flats along the southwest corner of Utah's Great Salt Lake west of Timpie on former Western Pacific trackage. Muscle for t... (more)

Dressed in a special paint scheme honoring America's Armed Forces, designed by veterans and now UP employees of each branch represented, UP 1943 hustles west across the old Western Pacific near Lo... (more)

Charging out of the sag which crosses Tecolote Creek in the distance, Amtrak's westbound Chief prepares to take a clear indication displayed by signal 7861, east of Chapelle on the Glorieta Subdiv... (more)

Standing against the light of a full moon semaphores 7061 and 7062 await the daily arrival of Amtrak trains 3 and 4, the Southwest Chief. Although the future looms uncertain for the Raton and Glor... (more)

As the afternoon wears long Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief prepares to take down the clear indication displayed by semaphore 7062, the last set of semaphores to be seen by the Chief on its eas... (more)

40 years separating them, two generations of EMD road power drift through the cut at Pine Ridge, WY with westbound tonnage pushing on the drawbar.

With a pair of EMD SD70 variants leading the charge Union Pacific's eastbound 'salad shooter' has nearly achieved the top of Archer Hill, east of Cheyenne, as it hurries towards its east coast con... (more)

The off beat bark from a pair of Baldwin K-36s fill the crisp fall air as they team up to work westbound tonnage up Cumbres Pass. K-36 489 with its swing helper 484 have been dressed up in Rio Gra... (more)

Amtrak's westbound Feather River Express drifts across Rock Creek on the homeward leg of the 2011 Portola Railroad Days excursion. On this day the heartbeat of the Feather River Route's former own... (more)

Harkening back to a time when scarlet and grey was as common a sight in Southern California as the region's Joshua Trees, an empty cement train, bound for the Creal Branch, drops down the Tehachap... (more)

Westbound BNSF tonnage tackles Ash Hill near Sibera, CA with some very welcome extra color in the form of warbonnet #4711 & a KCS 'Southern Belle' in the headend consist. In the foreground is 'The... (more)

While increasingly warmer and dry days were beginning to take their toll on the lower foothills Spring 'life' was still the order of the day above Bealville as a westbound BNSF 'earthworm' careful... (more)