A fiery sunrise greets a southbound BNSF coal load in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin south of Bill on May 30, 2009.

After the passing of a brief rainstorm, a northbound BNSF coal empty cruises over the top of Logan Hill under a nice-looking rainbow in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin on June 24, 2022.

A line of clouds march upriver, following some severe storms that have passed through the Clark Fork Valley just to the east, as an eastbound BNSF grain train follows the same waterway between Her... (more)

Bolting over Winston Hill
Weather turned quite storming in parts of Montana on the afternoon of July 8, 2022. My brother Tom, his son Charlie and I were waiting on Montana Rail Link’s ... (more)

A green signal on Track 3 on the Orin Line greets a loaded Union Pacific coal train rolling over the top of Logan Hill at 9:27 p.m. on July 10, 2021. The lights in the distance on the left is the ... (more)

On the stormy and darkening evening of June 25, 2019, Montana Rail Link’s Helena switch rolls through a curve just out of Winston, Montana. Powering the short local with two cars for the limesto... (more)

At the bottom of the inner depths of Royal Gorge where Rio Grande trains once ran, is the passenger train of Royal Gorge Route Railroad on August 26, 2021. The view is looking down from the famous... (more)

A San Luis & Rio Grande photo freight, powered by 2-6-0 No. 1744, aims at La Veta Pass east of after departing Alamosa, Colorado, at first light. This is a special photo freight operated by the ra... (more)

It’s in the very early days of Burlington Northern Santa Fe as train 14 heads east through the snow at Grizzly, Montana, on February 28, 1997. The railroad still looks like the Burlington Northe... (more)

Winter vista west of Noxon
The mountains in western Montana are frosted with fresh snow as a BNSF manifest freight rolls eastbound along the Clark Fork between Heron and Noxon, Montana,... (more)

Some of the day’s last sunlight tickles high points of the landscape surrounding Azure, Colorado, on Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision on November 15, 2021, as an eastbound UP coal loa... (more)

The incredible depth of breathtaking Royal Gorge dwarfs a 16-car Royal Gorge Route Railroad passenger train as it negotiates tight, rocky confines along the Arkansas River near the old siding loca... (more)

At the end of a perfect day, a rainbow encircles a Montana Rail Link helper set trundling eastward at Austin, Montana, after helping a BNSF grain train over Mullan Pass on July 5, 2021.

A quartet of Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2s and a cabless GE B30-7A B unit, power westbound unit grain train G05 across Two Medicine Bridge at East Glacier, Montana. The Cascade green train stand... (more)

Below the imposing escarpment of Dodge’s Bluff, Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr traces the Colorado River in spectacular Ruby Canyon just east of Utaline, Colorado, on June 23, 2021.