Amtrak’s California Zephyr has just passed through 463-foot Tunnel 42 as it follows the Colorado River just east of Radium, Colorado, on the afternoon of June 19, 2023.

A westbound Union Pacific freight enters a cut while climbing Peru Hill west of Green River, Wyoming, on the morning of June 22, 2023.

Main line severed, but these got through
Nine minutes after sunset at 9:27 p.m. on July 8, 2023, a trio of Boeing 737 fuselages mounted on flat cars and pulled by a lone Montana Rail Li... (more)

On June 24, 2023, Montana Rail Link’s bridge spanning the Yellowstone River near Reed Point collapsed as the railroad’s Laurel to Missoula freight crossed it, sending ten cars into the drink a... (more)

BNSF’s Laurel to Denver freight rolls between river’s edge and the imposing rock walls of Wyoming’s scenic Wind River Canyon between the sidings of Minnesela and Dornick on June 25, 2023.

Bozeman turn over the top
Led by SD45 No. 355, Montana Rail Link’s Bozeman turn descends Bozeman Pass at West End, Montana, on a rainy afternoon of July 2, 2019.

With its glossy paint reflecting the early morning sunrise, Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 and Northern No. 844 lead a westbound passenger special into Granger, Wyoming, on May 6, 2019. Steam exha... (more)

After spending the night at Utah Junction near Pecos Street, Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014 treads eastward on the Belt Line at Washington Street in Denver, Colorado, on November 26, 2019. To ... (more)

A special passenger train pulled by Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 and Northern No. 844 pulls into the north siding at Evanston, Wyoming, on May 6, 2019.

Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 shows off its imposing face during a service stop at Rock Springs, Wyoming, on May 5, 2019. UP No. 4014, accompanied by Northern No. 844, was on a trip west to Ogden... (more)

A set of BNSF locomotives have come over from the railroad’s 23rd Street locomotive facility to tie on to a freight train on the 20th Street Siding on Colorado’s Joint Line at Denver, Colorado... (more)

A setting sun peeks through the clouds long enough to illuminate a westbound BNSF grain train climbing out of Austin on Montana Rail Link’s main line over Mullan Pass on June 28, 2022.

A thunderstorm has just passed, but wet rail left behind slows a westbound BNSF oil train as it climbs the 2.2 percent grade of Mullan Pass at Iron Ridge between Austin and Weed, Montana, on the a... (more)

Sitting on the old Rock Island main line at Joliet Union Station is a Metra bi-level commuter train that is about to depart for Chicago on February 22, 1989. The station, built in 1912, once serve... (more)

Likely the most widely used 4-wheel truck in American railroad is EMD’s Blomberg truck. A rebuilt Blomberg sits in the rain outside Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, ... (more)