With more clouds moving in on the afternoon of June 20, 2020, a fortuitous splash of sunlight lights up the head end of a westbound BNSF coal empty rolling through Wendover Canyon west of Wendover... (more)

A view from the top of the ridge overlooking Wyoming’s rugged Sheep Canyon reveals BNSF’s Denver to Laurel freight following the Bighorn River northbound on the Casper Subdivision the morning ... (more)

While the former NP mainline through Montana has many scenic spots, none is more overlooked, or undershot than the Billings/Huntley area. Due in large part to inaccessibility, but also for a lack ... (more)

Canadian Pacific’s Royal Canadian Pacific luxury train exits Kicking Horse River Canyon and arrives at Golden, British Columbia, on a pretty September 13, 2002. The classy train is pulled by a A... (more)

The morning fog is burning off the mountain as Q585 howls South with an ex-Conrail SD40-2 leading the way through the final cut on Cumberland Mountain at Tantallon. Not trying to beat a dead horse... (more)

After helping to a westbound BNSF train over the steep 2.2% grades of Mullan Pass, a Montana Rail Link helper set of four EMD SD70ACe locomotives drop downgrade through Iron Ridge cut between Weed... (more)

A pair of weather-beaten orange EMD SD70MACs power BNSF’s Cowley turn through Sheep Canyon past milepost 414 south of Spence, Wyoming, while returning to Greybull on the afternoon of June 22, 2... (more)

A butte called Monkey Face is in full alpen glow above the low freezing fog in The Carpenter Creek valley south of Larkspur, CO. Southbound coal crawls up the steep grade into the absolute first l... (more)

Coaster train 662 is shoving at track speed with F40 2101 doing the honors. This is the last inbound train of the day to San Diego.

The California Zephyr Amtrak’s #5 is westbound from Denver, CO high along the Flatiron Range in rural Boulder County in the heart of the tunnel district between tunnel 7 and 8. Today Amtrak Heri... (more)

Amtrak #5, on time with the California Zephyr is passing through the Flatirons in Boulder County near tunnel 3 and 4 amidst a characteristically December Christmas week deep in the Tunnel District... (more)

One of the few manifest trains amongst the parade of intermodal traffic on BNSF's Southern Transcon Route, is seen traversing through the baron desert landscapes of southern California, on a very ... (more)

Westbound priority Z flies through the tangents at the Sherman Granite near Dale, WYO. The fragile high altitude botanicals are in full bloom on this most famous of hills at Dale Creek Junction.

The hazy skies caused by recent wildfires open up a light hole on the tracks just as BNSF 6103 (ES44AC) emerges from Rainbow Cut with a string of oil cans headed for Denver, Colorado.