With the mountains of Rocky Mountain National Park and the Continental Divide in the background, a Union Pacific Office Car Special heads westbound out of Granby, Colorado, over the Moffat Tunnel ... (more)

Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr climbs out of Rocky, Colorado, after meeting an eastbound Union Pacific coal train on June 28, 2008. In a few minutes after circling Big 10 Curve, No. 5 will b... (more)

Two SD40-2 locomotives serving as a rear manned helper push on a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight departing Clay, Colorado, on the afternoon of July 13, 2002. This train just met a U... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight departs Clay siding on Colorado’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. It has just met an eastbound Union Pacific coal train that can barely be seen going th... (more)

Late winter sunlight illuminates the front of a westbound Burlington Northern freight, powered by a pair of Grand Trunk Western units splicing a DT&I locomotive, rumbling through Neponset, Illinoi... (more)

A trio of BN EMD SD70MACs haul a northbound empty unit coal train north of Barela on February 14, 1998. This location is in between Barela and Beshoar on Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s Twin Peaks ... (more)

Between Brush and Sterling, Colorado, is the small town and siding of Hillrose, where a westbound Burlington Northern coal train heads through on July 13, 1990. The train is powered by three EMD S... (more)

A partially ice-covered inlet of Trout Creek into the Clark Fork reflects an eastbound BNSF coal train crossing Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Montana, on January 27, 2020.

BNSF’s Cody local trundles through some stark Wyoming scenery between Garland and Frannie on June 28, 2018. The eastbound train is headed for the connection to BNSF’s Casper Subdivision at Frannie... (more)

Weathered warriors
Rio Grande EMD GP40-2 No. 3097 and Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 105 rest at Grand Junction, Colorado, on June 25, 2002. Both are weathered, worn, dirty, and have ... (more)

Following the Colorado River westbound, Amtrak’s California Zephyr pierces Tunnel 40 in scenic Little Gore Canyon west of Azure, Colorado, on August 21, 2014.

Locomotives idle around the Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s locomotive facility at Alliance, Nebraska, near sunset on July 21, 2003.

On the afternoon of February 29, 2020, the tranquility of high country in winter is shattered as Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad steam-powered Rotary OY plows its way up the steep four percent gr... (more)

An eastbound BNSF stack train curves past milepost 420 at West Crookton, Arizona, on the morning of March 10, 2005. This location is about eight miles east of Seligman.

The rear end of a westbound Burlington Northern grain train is about to exit the big Iron Ridge Cut between Austin and Weed, Montana, while climbing Montana Rail Link’s main line over Mullan Pass ... (more)