Climbing the western grade of Marias Pass is an eastbound BNSF freight traversing the Hi Line Subdivision main line through bright autumn colors between Red Eagle and Paola, Montana, on October 9,... (more)

Copper Basin Railway EMD GP39-2 No. 502 is having its 360 day (annual) inspection done inside the shop at Hayden, Arizona, on April 20, 2017. The railroad’s well-equipped Hayden Shop includes a ... (more)

Copper Basin Railway’s Jeremy Holyoak and Garrett Pitner from the mechanical department stay busy as they work on CBRY EMD GP39-2 No. 502 at Hayden, Arizona, on April 20, 2017. This former Kenne... (more)

Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr has just curved out of Tunnel 1 east of Plainview while climbing Colorado’s front range mountains on the morning of September 13, 2023.

Two EMD SD70Ms wait for work at Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop in North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 19, 2015. No. 5090 has a “standard” SD70M cab, while slightly newer sister No. 51... (more)

Portland and Western’s American turn makes a slow rock-n-roll trip up Fourth Street in Harrisburg, Oregon, on September 27, 2016. The interurban qualities of the PNWR’s OE District is owed to ... (more)

A westbound Montana Rail Link “Jimbo” work train, powered by MRL EMD SD40-2XR No. 259, crosses an icy Clark Fork River at Clark Fork, Idaho.

An Albany & Eastern log train is crossing Oregon State Highway 226 just south of Crabtree, Oregon, on September 27, 2016. The train is returning from the Teevin Bros. log yard and reload facility ... (more)

An Albany & Eastern log train switches empties for loads at the Teevin Bros. log yard and reload facility at Crabtree, Oregon, on September 27, 2016. A school bus heading east on Crabtree Drive wi... (more)

Two BNSF coal trains meet at Algoma, Idaho, on a snowy February 27, 2017. BNSF GE ES44AC No. 6280 is the DPU on the eastbound empty, while BNSF EMD SD70ACe No. 9290 leads the westbound coal load o... (more)

A BNSF coal train makes its way through the North Dakota Badlands at Sully Springs on August 26, 2018, while eastbound on the railroad’s Dickinson Subdivision.

A partly cloudy, moonless night reveals an eastbound Union Pacific oil train following the Colorado River into Little Gore Canyon on September 18, 2023. The lead locomotive headlights illuminate t... (more)

Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr has just exited Little Gore Canyon and is approaching Radium, Colorado, on the afternoon of September 19, 2023.

Storming past milepost 215
Montana’s Winston Hill between Townsend and Helena seems to be a magnate for afternoon thunderstorms in summer. Being east of the Continental Divide and wed... (more)

Inside the Diesel House at Union Pacific’s former Rio Grande Burnham Shops at Denver, Colorado, two machinists work on a cylinder of the 7FDL16 prime mover of UP GE AC4400CW No. 7334 on December... (more)