It's a pleasant evening here in Hygiene, Colorado as the Longmont Turn led by a lone Smurf GP38-2 rolls along the 10 MPH jointed rail next to Sunset Pond on the old CB&Q Lyons Branch.

Fraser river is running high .

Springtime in the Rockies
Amtrak train No. 5, the California Zephyr, climbs up the 2 percent grade between Tunnels 8 and 10 west of Plainview, Colorado, on the morning of June 8, 2013. ... (more)

By Ways of California and Oregon Tourist Train. It was scheduled to run on the Oregon side of the Columbia River Gorge, but per a reliable source the connecting track at OT Junction to the Union ... (more)

Duchess of Sutherland paid the North east a visit today. Here she is at the start of the return leg back to Sheffield

The Jacobite steam train starts the climb to Glenfinnan

Former BC Rail traffic travels west (south) on CN's Clearwater Sub aboard Prince George-Vancouver train M355 across the North Thompson River at Little Fort, BC.

With plenty of top executives from both CSX Transportation and assorted energy companies aboard, the CSX P909-05 "Office Car Special" roars westward from New Jersey into Pennsylvania on a beautifu... (more)

"8" AC locomotives lift 17,000+ tons up the east slope of the Continental Divide. All 8 locomotives can seen with a close inspection. The valley at Austin makes a theatre like atmosphere to watc... (more)

For amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties...America, America. A westbound vehicle train behind a pair of BN Dash-2s cuts through the wheat fields of northern Montana nearing the Roc... (more)

Amtrak’s California Zephyr pops out of 63-foot-long Tunnel 40 in Little Gore Canyon west of Azure, Colorado, on June 3, 2013. Two fisherman try their luck in the depth of the canyon floating dow... (more)

BNSF 7216, eastbound at Essex, California, under stormy skies.

Canadian Pacific’s southbound wayfreight between Golden and Cranbrook, British Columbia, is south of Wasa, and is powered by five CP Rail SD40-2s on July 15, 2011.

ARR 3010 leads a "pre-season" Glacier Discovery south through the postcard-esque Bird Point. The Glacier Discovery starts daily operations for the summer season on 1 June, but the ARR ran four Gl... (more)