Filthy!
A Montana Rail Link helper set led by brand-new EMD SD70ACe No. 4305 coasts through Austin, Montana, heading eastbound back to Helena after helping a train up Mullan Pass. The s... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s former Northern Pacific route over Mullan Pass west of Helena, Montana, features a series of amazing curves to climb the eastern grade of the pass. In the foreground, a westbou... (more)

A trio of Union Pacific coal trains cross Logan Hill, north of Bill, Wyoming, on June 23, 2018. Even with the decline of coal, traffic on this four-track segment of the Orin Line in Powder River B... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s Helena switch zips over Winston Hill between Louisville and Winston, Montana, on the morning of June 30, 2017. The short two-car local is headed for the lime plant at Townsend ... (more)

Rain storms are slowly moving east at the end of a cloudy day in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. As the setting sun drops below the western horizon, a tiny slot of clearing sky silhouettes a northbo... (more)

Flying pup
A United Parcel Service “pup” trailer on a TTX spine car speeds by milepost 550 on an eastbound Union Pacific intermodal train between Colores and Hermosa, Wyoming, on May 28,... (more)

Heading southbound on the Missouri Valley Subdivision, Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western’s “wayfreight” crosses the bridge over Turtle Creek between Washburn and Merida, North Dakota, on August 28... (more)

Burlington Northern GE C30-7 No. 5071 leads an eastbound BNSF freight through the mile 196.3 semaphores at East St. Regis, Montana, on the morning of September 7, 1998.

On June 16, 2001, a summertime run of Ansco’s Rio Grande Ski Train passes through 75-foot Tunnel 29 westbound just east of Pinecliffe, Colorado, on Union Pacific’s scenic former Rio Grande Moffat ... (more)

A lady from the information center of Winter Park Resort stands at the ready to answer any questions from detraining passengers as Amtrak’s Winter Park Express ski train arrives just after exiting... (more)

Florida East Coast EMD GP40-2 No. 433, in fresh “Retro Blue” paint, rests in the railroad’s New Smyrna Beach Shop with sister locomotive No. 430 in the older blue scheme on January 10, 2015.

Tehachapi Pass is carpeted in the green of springtime on March 28, 2001, as a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight heads through Caliente, California. Behind warbonnet-clad Dash 9 No. 76... (more)

At 12:12 p.m. on January 13, 1990, Conrail ELPR3 (Elkhart to Proviso) freight swings through the curves at New Carlisle, Indiana, powered by C40-8 No. 6033 and EMD SD40 No. 6359. No. 6033 was only... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s gas local crosses the Thompson River east of Thompson Falls, Montana, and is heading down the Fourth Subdivision along the Clark Fork to Paradise on October 14, 2018.

On BNSF’s Casper Subdivision, a southbound manifest freight crosses a bridge between Himes and Spence, Wyoming, on the afternoon of June 25, 2018.