An eastbound BNSF freight fills Big 10 Curve between Eisele and Rocky, Colorado, on the warm afternoon of February 9, 2015. The 76-car train is made up of mostly tank cars—73 to be exact.

November 16, 2014- the date which will forever mark the end of an era on Tehachapi. It was on this cool, fall evening that many original, Southern Pacific searchlights saw their last sunset as Uni... (more)

Slowly grinding up the western slope of the Arizona Divide, along BNSF's Seligman Subdivision, four GE locomotives labor as they pull a heavy Los Angeles, CA to Memphis, TN intermodal train. With ... (more)

A thunderstorm moves north across the Denver Metro Area as westbound coal empties for West Elk Mine led by Union Pacific ES44AC No. 7815 climbs the 2-percent grade around Big Ten Curve near Arvada... (more)

Amtrak #5 threads thru Tunnel 29 in the Colorado Rockies. A close look will reveal a few patches of snow from a storm that dropped 20+ inches of snow on this spot, less than a week before....

With the western sky lighting up as the sun begins to dip below the horizon, the sound of five 4,400 horsepower locomotives can be heard charging hard in the distance. Battling the steep and long ... (more)

A westbound BNSF coal train rumbles along the Clark Fork between Noxon and Heron, Montana, on February 24, 2017.

On a glorious day in Alaska, if only the rest of the summer could be like today, the Alaska RR's 5 day a week freight to Fairbanks crosses the Knik River. Roughly 30 miles and 50 minutes into thei... (more)

Misty morning in Yacolt. The early morning ground fog and mist are still burning off in the tiny Washington hamlet of Yacolt, as the crew of a Crossett Western saddle-tanker takes their loc... (more)

Operating as NS train 958, the Petersburg-bound "Cavalier" excursion train crosses the curved trestle over Eagle Creek, east of Lynchburg.

“Wartime Travel” San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society volunteer’s ad drama to this scene that was part of a fund raising shoot for the San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society to he... (more)

Eastbound along the Colorado River is a Union Pacific coal train negotiating Red Gorge west of Radium, Colorado, on November 1, 2012.

Springs is Avalanche season and there are plenty of slide zones on the Alaska RR such as this at MP 7.1 on the Whittier Branch. Just a few days earlier this slide was 30 feet across the RR. Thanks... (more)

Comstock: MP 46.6. A V&T Freight traverses the wide, sweeping horseshoe curve at American Flat on a chilly winter afternoon, en route to its destination at Virginia City, roughly 5 rail mil... (more)

Tracing the banks of the Missouri River through impressive Lombard Canyon is Montana Rail Link's Missoula to Laurel manifest freight just west of Lombard, Montana, on a perfect June 26, 2015. The ... (more)