The 840 Local returning to Helena with MRL 4301 leading exiting Lombard Canyon on approach to Toston, MT.

MRL's Night Gas releases it's track warrant off the 10th Sub and continues it's westward trip via the 4th Sub to the plant at Thompson Falls, MT.

On June 28, 2014 after ferrying from Haines to Skagway, Alaska, the drive up the Klondike Highway (Hwy 98) over White Pass into British Columbia, Canada offered an opportunity to capture one of th... (more)

Boasting a generous 4.0 HPT and making near track speed uphill, the highest priority intermodal from Los Angeles, CA to Willow Springs, IL. This is BNSF Railway's modern day equivalent to the famo... (more)

Starting down the steeper old south track (Main 3), BNSF 7812 and train begin the 3% descent westbound through Cajon Pass into urban Southern California.

Four MRL SD45 helpers on the rear of a loaded grain heavy snaking around the big cuts of Iron Ridge above Austin, MT on their way up Mullan Pass.

BNSF 4681 lighting up the rails ahead as it is about to pass the intermediate searchlight at Hill 582 eastbound between Alray and Silverwood on BNSF's Cajon Sub. This was a 15 second exposure take... (more)

Livingston Peak and the snow caped Absaroka Range watch over Montana Rail Link's daily Laurel to Missoula manifest as it begins the hard 1.8% climb up Bozeman Pass west of Livingston, MT.

Southbound UP Auto train entering Cliff Siding just past Tunnel 5 above Bealville, CA with a new first order General Electric "GEvo" up front. This was my first sighting of what is now a very comm... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific hotshot piggyback winding through San Timoteo Canyon, CA with snow covered Mt. San Jacinto in the distance.

A sunbathing Warbonnet parked on one of the Tie-up tracks at BNSF's La Mirada Yard.

The hottest train on the railroad. - You know it's hot when it's got foreign power (UP) on a foreign railroad (MRL) and only two cars behind. This was a "J" train special out of Fort Worth,... (more)

Westbound Night Gas Local with MRL SD45-2s 355, 331, and 382 at Ravalli, MT on MRL's 10th Sub.

MRL GP35 403, SD45-2 311, & SD40-2XR 263 on MRL's 844 Local, leading a 36 car cut of ballast hoppers westward into Jefferson Canyon towards MRL's Pipestone Quarry on MRL's 5th Sub.

Montana Rail Link's Laurel to Missoula manifest with MRL 4302, 325, and a five pack of SD70ACe helpers on the rear makes its way up the grade westward out of Helena, Montana between Tobin and Bird... (more)