Talgo Series 8 cab car "Mt. Bachelor" heads up southbound Cascades train 509 as it glides along the Puget Sound at Steilacoom in last light.
"Thunder Under Heaven" GCRY 29 and 4960 dig into the "Apex Grade", which runs from Anita to Apex (now called Imbleau by GCRY). Topping out at 3%, one can really hear ... (more)
A fairly new (and clean to boot!) BNSF Gevo leads a intermodal train in dynamics through the shoo-fly at Tunnels 3 & 5.
Amtrak 139 navigates the westbound of the California Zephyr through the reverse s-curve at Glenshire as it hits the first snow of the season.
The 844 local has just finished working the talc plant at Sappington and prepares to head back east to the yard at Logan. The leader on the return trip is MRL 115, which was built for the Chicago ... (more)
Number 40 drifts downgrade into Ely at Moser on what was the Nevada Northern mainline to Cobre.
FWRY 3501 leads the Pacific Railroad Society's “Ride the Movie Trains” excursion eastbound towards Piru near the last Rte 126 crossing.
Five of Union Pacific's finest battle with the east slope of Donner Pass as they round the curve at Glenshire, near the old Southern Pacific station of Polaris, which was just west of this curve.
The steep grade here is evident as Fillmore & Western's Baldwin Consolidation prepares to lug it's train up it on the final leg of the short trip from Piru.
A SD59MX (a nice change from the slew of SD70M's that have been on this hauler for the last year) leads the LOF67 northbound through the bluffs near Carpenteria on it's way to Guadalupe.
BNSF 7068 powers a stack train, which also consists of a few autoracks tagged on the end, over the Little Hell's Canyon Bridge near Drake.
Amtrak 79 leads the southbound Starlight out of the Westfir Tunnel and into Oakridge
Virginia and Truckee 18 barks upgrade on rarely seen trackage out of Carson River Canyon with the "Toast of the Canyon" train in tow.
In clearer skies on Friday, GCRY F40PH 237 departs the south rim of the Grand Canyon with the Williams Flyer in tow.
A quartet of GE's haul an eastbound train up the grade near Bealville.
