A manifest snakes along the banks of the Missouri River in Lombard Canyon. In July 1805, the Lewis and Clark expedition camped near this location...The camp ground at the lower right is popular s... (more)

Priority perishables destined for the interchange with CSX at Chicago for movement to the East Coast has conquered the stiff Eastbound grade of Donner Pass and slowly glides down the back slope of... (more)

BNSF 6882 descends Stevens Pass at MP 1694 with a J train, made up of exclusively empty Boeing aircraft equipment. The railroad follows Nason Creek east from the east portal of the Cascade Tunnel ... (more)

Amtrak #5, the 'California Zephyr', highballs west through Crescent Junction Utah seen from a mile away atop a small hill. P42DC's #183 & #75 are in charge today as they speed towards their next s... (more)

A Montana Rail Link 4-unit helper set descends Mullan Pass at Greenhorn trestle after helping with a lift of a westbound manifest train. Milepost 17 indicates the distance from Helena on the 3rd S... (more)

An April snowstorm dumped over three feet of fresh wet snow up in Colorado's high country. Seen here, a westbound unit train consisting of all empty gondolas notches up after getting a light out o... (more)

On June 30, the Helena Local got a real late start, not arriving at Townsend until sunset. My friend Dave Gayer and I were returning from Lombard thinking we might get lucky and see the train our ... (more)

After switching at Townsend, the Helena local met several freight trains en route to Trident, MT where it would switch cars at the cement plant. Here the train glides along the banks of the Missou... (more)

Amtrak's Phase I heritage unit leads the westbound California Zephyr through Pinecliffe and on toward the Continental Divide

Amtrak's Phase I heritage unit leads the westbound California Zephyr through the tight confines of south boulder creek canyon

Drifting down 'stream' through the Colorado Rockies a 17 car Union Pacific executive special is led by a pair of 'heavies', representing both EMD and GE, near Burns, CO on the Dotsero Cutoff. This... (more)

On June 27, 1979, Rio Grande's Tintic Local is pictured less than a mile from the Burgin gold mine, navigating desolate sage brush and cedar trees through the foothills of the East Tintic Mountain... (more)

Amtrak's "Southwest Chief" is seen decending the grade of Raton Pass before arriving at the Raton, New Mexico Depot.

While out enjoy the evening sun from the back porch, three BNSF locomotives emerge out of Crozier Canyon with a heavy 10K stack train for the Port of Los Angeles as rumble pass the homestead.