CP 9706 east leads mixed freight train 200 over a small bridge in the Thompson River Canyon in the mid-morning hours.

CP 8031 leads Canadian Pacific's Hotshot intermodal 101 westbound in the last moments of the sunlight on the approach to the east-end signal at Ashcroft, BC on the CP Thompson Subdivision.

The DPU pushes a coal train through the tunnel at Clark's Point.

RTD commuter train #4022 (Hyundai Eagle P3) heads towards Denver International Airport.

BNSF 6190 (ES44AC) leads a loaded coal train over the Santa Fe Bridge in Larkspur, Colorado.

BNSF 8470 (SD70ACe) leads a coal train on the ridge leading into Larkspur, Colorado as runs south on the Joint Line.

An idle coal train at Palmer Lake affords the opportunity of a couple of fishermen to cross the tracks.

A quartet of ACe's shove a loaded coal train towards Larkspur, Colorado

A westbound BNSF train crosses Lake Ashtabula as what has to be the largest garter snake I've ever seen gets some sun on a large chunk of granite nearby. I did a cursory search for "snake&quo... (more)

It was a beautiful morning.

With a locomotive consist reminiscent of a decade or more ago, a westbound Q train crosses Lake Ashtabula on the large bridge just west of Luverne, ND.

Some BNSF locomotives, including a rebuilt GP35 and a rebuilt GP30, are reflected in a puddle left by a recent rainstorm as they rest on one of the servicing tracks in Willmar, MN.

A pair of BNSF Dash 9's in Heritage 1 paint bring an eastbound manifest from Grand Forks through downtown Moorhead.

The F units are on their way out of the station with the 11 AM Lehigh Gorge train. To the right is a tank car filled with water for #2102, which at this point was still en route to Jim Thorpe.

#2816 arrives at Union Station for a fun-filled display day.