CPKC 261 rolls north along the Mississippi River.

On June 24, 2018, BNSF’s HDENLAU freight passes through 370-foot Black Tunnel between the sidings of Piper and Dornick in Wyoming’s impressive Wind River Canyon on June 24, 2018.

KCS SD70ACe 4180 leads NS 29P West past the Amtrak station in Hammond.

Montana Rail Link’s 840 local, also known as the Helena local, rolls east through Lombard Canyon between Toston and Lombard, Montana, on the afternoon of June 26, 2016. The train is powered by M... (more)

As storms brew in the background, BNSF 8563 (SD70ACe) leads a loaded coal train through the signals at West Barr on the Brush Sub.

About as rare as it gets these days.... Yes, what you are looking at is Union Pacific Engine #1988, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas "The Katy" Heritage Locomotive leading Norfolk Southern t... (more)

An empty grain train rolls through Pittsburg Kansas with one of the first SD70ACe's delivered to the KCS leading the train.

A couple fisherman move under the bridge as a loaded Coal Train crosses the Kalamazoo River in New Richmond , Eastbound (North on map) from Chicago to West Olive Michigan. This Coal is for the pow... (more)

Big Sky Wyoming
Montana may employ the phrase “Big Sky Country” to describe its open country and beautiful skies, but Wyoming easily comes in second with its share. Witness a pair o... (more)

BNSF 8509 leads a westbound QATGLAC into Flagstaff in the late evening.

KCS 4001 leads a northbound empty grain train through the Missouri countryside just north of Joplin.

Wednesday Morning Lashup | With six locomotives wearing a total of four different paint schemes on the head end, a northbound train of empty coal hoppers cruises up the main track at Gentry... (more)

UP heritage engine #1995 (SD70ACe) in the Chicago & Northwestern paint scheme waits for a crew that will then pilot the train over the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

Its June 2022, on a quiet morning high above Skyline Trestle, the silence is expunged by the iconic sounds of EMDs screaming through the rigid mountainside. 4404 and another Ace combine with a Jim... (more)

Kansas City Southern ACe #4118 shoves a loaded coal through Brighton, Colorado and towards Denver.