Steam locomotives on the Georgetown Loop Railroad are lined up in front of the engine house at Silver Plume, Colorado, on September 13, 2004. Nos. 12 and 14 are 3-truck Shay locomotives from Wests... (more)

A BNSF local operated out of Golden called the Golden switch slowly makes its way east through downtown Arvada, Colorado, on August 19, 2005. The train is passing the local landmark water tower an... (more)

A westbound afternoon run of Deseret Power Railway climbs out of Mormon Gap, Colorado, with 44 cars of coal for the Bonanza Power Plant, on October 21, 2015. Three GE E60 electrics are digging in ... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s eastbound gas train cruises through Perma, Montana, along the Flathead River on the railroad’s Tenth Subdivision on October 2, 2015.

The rear half of an eastbound BNSF intermodal train climbing the grade up Tehachapi Pass at Bealville, California, is made up of exclusively trailer-on-flat-car (TOFC) tonnage as the train snakes ... (more)

On the morning of July 24, 2011, Canadian Pacific ES44AC No. 8873 brings a coal empty through Harrogate, British Columbia, the scenic Windermere Subdivision.

Powered by GP35 Nos. 406 and 405, a Montana Rail Link local departs Logan, Montana, on the railroad’s Fifth Subdivision main line with one car for the Harrison Branch. In the background is the Lau... (more)

Cumbres & Toltec’s Rotary OY outfit train steams through a curve above Dalton, New Mexico, on the afternoon of February 29, 2020. Rio Grande caboose No. 0306 carries the markers on the eastbound t... (more)

This is about as far as Cumbres & Toltec’s Rotary OY outfit train is going to plow on March 1, 2020. It was quickly stopped after breaking though the crusty snowbank along Highway 17, and is now r... (more)

A Burlington Northern Santa Fe empty unit coal train crosses a bridge over Carpenter Creek at Larkspur on May 14, 1999. The train is powered by a trio of EMD SD70MACs, running over a section of no... (more)

An afternoon run of the Deseret Power Railway’s unit coal train has just crested Holum Pass and is now dropping downgrade past milepost 7 at Blue Mountain, Colorado, on October 19, 2015.

At the summit of Cumbres Pass, Colorado, there’s quite a bit of white stuff to chew on as Cumbres & Toltec Rotary OY makes a run at the build-up of icy snow at the Colorado Highway 17 grade crossi... (more)

Cumbres & Toltec’s Rotary snowplow OY and outfit train nears Windy Point, Colorado, as it climbs the four percent grade to Cumbres Pass on March 1, 2020.

After getting a fill of water from the Chama Fire Department at the Highway 17 grade crossing at Coxo, Colorado, Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad Rotary OY plow outfit heads upgrade toward the loc... (more)

Surrounded by the beautiful Canadian Rockies, a westbound Canadian Pacific grain train drops into Field, British Columbia, on September 23, 2013.