With Tehachapi's spring 'green' season still in bloom, an overpowered BNSF intermodal train heads for Mojave across the famed SP Tehachapi Pass route.

Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief train No. 3 eases into the tight curves at Ojita as the Los Angeles-bound train approaches the intermediate semaphores at Ojita on BNSF's Glorieta Subdivi... (more)

Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief train No. 3 charges through the interlocking at WSS Colmor at track speed on BNSF's former Santa Fe Raton Subdivision.

Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief train No. 3 splits the historic Santa Fe semaphore signals at the Colmor intermediates on its way to Albuquerque, N.M., and points west.

BNSF EMD SD70ACe No. 8504 leads a locomotive test train south toward Raton Pass featuring a mix of BNSF EMD and GE power, BNSF passenger test cars, and Progress Rail' EMD SD70ACe-T4 demo unit.

BNSF officials switch out the consist of a locomotive test train featuring Progress Rail' Tier 4 SD70ACe-T4 and two BNSF test cars before a run across Santa Fe's Raton Pass on the Colorado and New... (more)

Rare mileage Zephyr... Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr train No. 6 rolls east near Rock River at track speed on UP's Laramie Subdivision in Wyoming. Typically, the Zephyrs would operat... (more)

With the Colorado aspen still at peak colors in this late September view, an eastbound UP coal train charges through Hot Sulphur Springs on UP's ex-Rio Grande mainline.

An eastbound Union Pacific coal train eases into the S curves just east of Kremmling on its way to Denver from the coal loadouts of Colorado.

The Montgomery Fire Department presents a water cannon salute to Amtrak conductor Dennis Gleason who was on his final trip eastbound on the New River Train, pictured here in Montgomery, W.Va., on ... (more)

With fall colors starting to change, the 2017 New River Train led by three heritage P42DCs and 30 private cars rolls along the New River at Hawks Nest.

Retired Amtrak conductor Dennis Gleason signs a fresh brown egg after the successful coupling of three Amtrak P42DCs into the west end of the 30-car New River Train. The egg tradition was started ... (more)

With 30 privately owned cars in tow, three Amtrak heritage P42DCs lead the 2017 New River Train west through Sandstone, W.Va.

Three Amtrak heritage P42DCs run around their 30-car passenger consist on the C&O main in Hinton during the 2017 New River Train excursions.

With three of Amtrak's 40th anniversary heritage locomotives leading the way, the 2017 New River Train battles wind and a cold rain as it barrels through downtown Thurmond on its way to Huntington... (more)