A trainload of coal from the mines along the original Denver and Salt Lake main line, now the Rio Grande’s Craig Branch, approaches Rainbow Cut as it rolls through Plainview, Colorado.

The engineer of the Nevada Northern Railway #40 has just expertly spotted the tender under the water spout and the fireman is giving the 106-year-old Baldwin 4-6-0 locomotive a nice long drink in ... (more)

Rushing eastward across the Chihuahuan Desert near Van Horn, Texas, May 13, 1973, Missouri Pacific GP35 615 is 120 miles out of El Paso and still some 350 miles from its Fort Worth terminal. Techn... (more)

Fresh snow from the night before covers most areas along the Front Range Foothills as a northbound Track Geometry Train led by BNSF ES44DC No. 7316 leaves Boulder, Colorado on February 23, 2016.

Absent the last few seasons on the mountain, Tehachapi's Spring wildflowers make their colorful return, brought up by winter rainfall. Slipping down the western slope of the Tehachapi's a westboun... (more)

Entering the remote Tunnel District east of Pinecliffe, Colorado, is an eastbound Union Pacific coal train threading Tunnel 27 on June 15, 2001. This view looks east down South Boulder Creek and i... (more)

Amtrak No. 5, the westbound California Zephyr, is climbing the grade toward Big 10 Curve west of Rocky, Colorado, on September 6, 2001. In the background waiting in the siding at Clay is an eastbo... (more)

448 axles, 100 cars, 5 engines on the headend, and 3 DPU climb southbound through Woodford siding.

A spiffy UP-SP merger consist pull an 87 car Hinkle, Oregon to Yermo, California manifest freight through Lake Point on July 26, 1997.

A Montana Rail Link work train with SD40-2XR no. 259 leading glides across the Clark Fork River in Clark Fork, Idaho. The 259 was rebuilt from former Burlington Northern no. 6324.

Montana Rail Link’s Helena local travels along the Missouri River through Lombard, Montana, on June 22, 2015.

Big 10 Belles
Two Kansas City Southern EMD SD70ACes power a westbound Union Pacific oil train around Big 10 Curve west of Rocky, Colorado, on a beautiful 64° February 13, 2016. The 73-... (more)

A loaded coal train winds along the shores of the very scenic Clark Fork River amid the fall colors of a mid October day. At the time this photo was taken the property the photographer was standin... (more)

See Anyone You Know?

Nothing brings out a multitude of railfans like a steam engine! As a Union Pacific passenger special, pulled by Challenger 3985 and the UP's trio of E9s, climbs... (more)

The thunderous roar emitted from a labored eastbound manifest reverberates through the Sierra Nevada as Union Pacific's Roseville, CA to North Platte, NE manifest contends with the western slope o... (more)