Just south of Victorville, California, the Mojave River cuts through the hills. The Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway took advantage of this natural river engineering to get their rails through ... (more)

A EMD veteran brings loaded Savannah, GA bound coke train W221 through the first of many cuts on the Southside of Cumberland Mountain. The howl of the 40's dynamics could be heard for miles before... (more)

On a sunny afternoon, the Escalante Western arrives at the Western Fuels' Association Generating Station with 24 loads of coal. The second unit suffered a failure at the Peabody Mine and the crew ... (more)

Westbound freight rolls down towards Yuba Gap.

A trio of Apache's finest make way south out of Holbrook, AZ with interchange from the BNSF bound for Snowflake.

A westbound Union Pacific Office Car Special operating for the Board of Directors passes through colorful Red Canyon along the Colorado River between Dell and Range, Colorado, on September 28, 200... (more)

A coal load tops the 3% section below Pando on Tennessee Pass. The train is struggling against multiple curves some as tight as 12 degrees at Stillwater under a steady light rain. This location w... (more)

Union Pacific #8207 and Canadian National SD75I #5749 slow down on the approach to the E. siding switch at Bridgeport to check the position of the switch as they head Westbound towards Grand Jct. ... (more)

Arizona & Eastern B40-8 screams out of Clifton Tunnel #2 as it assaults the 2.12% grade out of the San Francisco River Canyon. This will be the second A&E Hill Turn out of Clifton. The Freeport ... (more)

Special heritage service between Santiago - Limache by the old and historic Mapocho - Valparaiso line (former first state railroad zone), on your return trip and at the end of the day, cross the L... (more)

Lurking beneath the rugged geology lining the Thompson River Canyon near Ashcroft, British Columbia, Canadian Pacific’s Ashcroft local switches the tie plant east of town on the morning of Septe... (more)

A BNSF oil train rumbles along the basalt cliffs above Crater Lake on the climb out of the Columbia River basin between Trinidad and Quincy, Washington, on September 21, 2016.

Late afternoon in a classic scene in Cajon Pass, it is impressive to hear the roar and effort of those engines as they face the numerous curves before reaching the Summit. A eastbound BNSF Z train... (more)

BNSF 5232 (Dash9) emerges from Tunnel 29 in Pinecliffe as it heads to Denver from the Colorado Rocky Mountains.