The late summer evening sun bathes the Wine Train with golden light as it trundles north up the Napa Valley.

A pair of SD9043MAC's lead a drag freight south through the Sacramento Valley.

Double stacks roll west through the tunnels at Yuba.

A westbound reefer block rolls over Donner Pass on a beautiful late winter day.

A long winter of rain has paid off with a reward of green spring hills and wild flowers in Franklin Canyon.

I have seen many UP units lead the Zephyr when a P42 goes down. Yet I have never seen a snow service GP38 do the honors.

MRL 332 leads the gas train through a pair of old NP signal bridges in Plains, Mt.

MRL 4308 leads the empty gas train back to Missoula through the wilds of Montana near Perma.

MRL 311, wearing the new MRL image paint job, sits at the Missoula diesel servcing area at last light on a summer afternoon.

MRL 332 leads the gas train WB on the MRL's 10th Sub

A WB loaded coal train rolls through the beautiful plains of central Montana.

After the tunnel work window was lisfted, this was the first WB of the afternoon to make it's way over Mullan Pass

A WB auto train emerges from Bozeman Tunnel.

An EB empty coal train rolls down the east slope of Bozeman Pass on the MRL.

The Night Gas Train is returning east through Arlee, Montana on a beautiful summer morning.