In the late 1800s gold and silver were discovered in the Bradshaw Mountains of central Arizona. As was common at the time, the success of the mines were limited by the lack of transportation into ... (more)

UP #1983 climbs out of the San Simon Valley as it passes through the ghost town of Steins.

Coaster #3001 crosses the trestle over the San Dieguito River in Del Mar.

At over thirty miles from the nearest town, Hambone is a quiet place. This area first saw rails in 1920 when the McCloud River Lumber Co. began logging here. The McCloud River Railroad took over t... (more)

After waiting for a northbound to pass, an empty BNSF stack train heads for Tehachapi, leaving behind a colorful valley sunset.

A northbound intermodal pops out of Tunnel 2 as it descends Tehachapi Pass.

McCloud #25 crosses the Nehalem River with a mixed freight. Onion Peak can be seen in the distance rising over 3,000' above the the Nehalem River Valley. Photo taken on a Martin Hansen charter on ... (more)

BNSF #6263 leads a loaded oil train through Mayger. The train is bound for nearby Port Westward, where the oil will be loaded on barges and shipped to California.

McCloud #25 is seen heading east with photo special on one of the few stretches of straight track on the Tillamook Branch.

McCloud #25 crosses over an inlet on Nehalem Bay on it's way to Wheeler.

All is quiet on the McCloud. With the railroad's only operational locomotive left derailed on the line for several weeks and much of the railroad's equipment scrapped, or marked to be scr... (more)

BNSF #7889 pops out of Tunnel 10 and winds it's way through the S-Curves near Walong as it continues the long trip over Tehachapi Pass.

Copper Basin Railway #301 leads the morning ore train back to the dumper in Hayden. Due to a shutdown at the smelter this was the only train that would run that day.

BNSF #7917 leads an eastbound autorack train through Cosnino on a sunny spring morning.

Hillcrest Lumber Co. #10, one of four operation Climaxes in the world, switches its train of skeleton log cars in the Mineral yard.