Under a stormy Montana sky, a BNSF freight train crosses the Clark Fork bridge at Bonner on October 4, 2005, heading eastbound on Montana Rail Link’s Third Subdivision between Missoula and Helen... (more)

This area is known as South Draw deep in Tunnel District of Rio Grande's Moffat Road. The natural horseshoe of South Draw is used by the railroad to gain elevation on the climb to the Continental... (more)

On a fourth of July excursion between Mt. Shasta and McCloud, the MR 18 paused at Big Canyon for a couple of minutes. The conductor, who has been a friend for a long time, graciously let me bail ... (more)

Near Cruzatte in the Oregon Cascades, a westbound train climbs the grade in Fall 1987. Snow will begin falling soon.

A set of five BNSF locos with a westbound manifest has just crossed Blue Mountain Drive and has made the turn in Coal Creek Canyon to head up the 20‰ grade to Tunnel No 1.

Greenhorn Trestle
Burlington Northern First 196, led by EMD GP50 No. 3147, arcs over curved Greenhorn Trestle while dropping downgrade on Mullan Pass between Skyline and Weed, Montana, o... (more)

The "Spirit of the Union Pacific" leads a executive special along the Columbia River.

Amtrak's Phase I heritage unit is on the point of the Lakeshore Limited as it makes its approach into the Rochester Station, crossing over I-490 and the Inner Loop.

Burlington Northern GE C30-7 No. 5071 leads an eastbound BNSF freight through the mile 196.3 semaphores at East St. Regis, Montana, on the morning of September 7, 1998.

A Lake Superior & Ishpeming ore run rolls a string of loads through Palmer Jct. as it heads from Tilden Mine back to Eagle Mills Yard. Later the cars will be handled down the grade to the ore dock... (more)

BNSF 6039 leads an eastbound empty coal train along Denton Slough, part of Lake Pend Oreille on Montana Rail Link near Denton, east of Hope. The train is headed for Missoula for its next crew chan... (more)

An amply powered eastbound descends the west slope of Oregon's Cascade Range on a 1987 spring afternoon.

Just short of their destination of Pipeline in Thompson Falls, the Night Gas does a little work at Thompson River Lumber. Seen here coming out of the industry.

The sun is shining as Canadian National C40-8 leads U730 with its train of raw iron ore from the T-Bird Mine towards the processing plant at Fairlane.

After the last snowfall of the year (hopefully), train 406 rounds the bend, at Rothesay, New Brunswick.