Loaded grain train departs Duluth for Corpus Christi.

An eastbound Union Pacific coal train eases downgrade away from Tolland, Colorado, and crosses Boulder Creek on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. The Continental Divide in the background has some of ... (more)

A UP autorack from Gibson, IN - Milpitas, CA coasts down the Feather River Canyon at the famous double bridges at Pulga

A westbound Canadian Pacific train traverses the Thompson River Canyon east of Lytton, British Columbia, on July 22, 2011.

On an overcast October evening in the New River Gorge, the hottest train on the C&O , westbound Q135 crosses the New River at Hawks Nest with its single stack container train in tow. Colors are cl... (more)

An eastbound Santa Fe freight curves through the heart of Crozier Canyon east of Valentine, Arizona, on March 6, 1996.

The symmetry of the coal loads are visible as this coal drag is about to enter the Harpers Ferry tunnel after crossing the Potomac.

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Marching through the desert
A Santa Fe westbound passes a Joshua tree west of Jimgrey, California, on March 7, 1996. Even though the railroad is now officially BNSF at this date, it’s... (more)

A year before DRGW declined to join Amtrak, its Rio Grande Zephyr was running with just six cars as it was on this day about to leave Byers Canyon heading west. By this time of year, too, the spr... (more)

The floods of spring now gone, an eastbound intermodal shoots across the fill at the oxbow of the Bow River known as Muleshoe. Snow still lingers on the south facing slope of Massive Mountain, but... (more)

A few hours after the first decent snowfall of Winter '12/'13, CN 2239 screams through Redpass with C776's coal empties.

Number 5000, the "Diversity in Motion" unit, leads a load of southbound coal across the "Skaggs Hole" bridge at Towers.

Canadian Pacific train No. 177 west is pulled by three matching Multi-mark CP Rail SD40-2s as the train approaches Glenogle, British Columbia. This location is dramatically different now, as Trans... (more)