An EMD SD70MAC and a GE AC4400CW bring up the rear of a Smithers Lake, TX-bound coal train as it crest the 7,200' summit of the Palmer Divide as Palmer Lake, CO.

With a fresh crew on board, the DP motors of a "mega" empty coal train departs Sterling and heads north off of the Brush Subdivision onto the Angora Subdivision. These "mega" c... (more)

The pair of GE locomotives shove a 124 car Texas-bound coal train into the sunset as it passes through Brush, CO.

New signals are almost ready to be cut into service at Union on BNSF's Brush Sub. Since BNSF taking over the maintenance from the UP on the section from Union to Sterling, new signals are being pu... (more)

A southbound, railroad eastbound, UP coal train hustles 20,000 tons of West Thunder coal cross Wyoming's Powder River Basin near Douglas. On the main track next to the UP 5802, the DP motors of a ... (more)

A busy morning in Wyoming's Powder River Basin has resulted in a three-way meet at Bill. Two eastbound UP coal trains race towards Shawnee Jct, and onto home rails, as a westbound BNSF coal train ... (more)

Two BNSF coal trains battle the one percent grade of Logan Hill in Wyoming's Powder River Basin as they head south to deliver their loads of "black diamonds" to power plants across the M... (more)

BNSF 5944 leads a 130 car coal train for the Consumers Energy J.H. Campbell Generating Complex in West Olvie, MI as it leaves the Black Thunder Mine and enters BNSF's Orin Sub. From there, this BN... (more)

With 74 loaded cars of Utah crude oil pushing down on the drawbars, UP 8835 slowly negotiates the mountain grade and tight curves of Coal Creek Canyon with its heavy oil train. In the background, ... (more)

UP 7871 works as the lone DPU motor as it brings up the rear of a 73 car empty St. James, LA to Wildcat, UT oil train at Coal Creek Canyon as it climbs the 1.8% grade between Blue Mountain Rd. and... (more)

After doing a "rolling meet" with its counterpart, Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief, train #4, departs out of Glorieta as it continues its eastward across the New Mexico mountains.

Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief splits the semaphore signals of East Colmor as it races westward towards Las Vegas, NM.

ATSF 2926 poses near Albuquerque Train Station for a night photo shoot during Albuquerque's Railroad Days. This is 2926 first mainline appearance since being retired by the ATSF.

UP 1943 leads a high-wide special movement over Sherman Hill on UP's Laramie Subdivision as it approaches the Hermosa Tunnels. The high-wide movement is a NASA rocket booster for the Artemis II ro... (more)

UP 1943, "The Spirit of the Union Pacific" leads a NASA rocket train across UP's Laramie Subdivision as it heads east passed Walcott, WY. These rocket booster are for the Artemis II rock... (more)