A three-unit helper pushes hard to assist a long Santa Fe eastbound around the 10-degree curve at Caliente.

On March 3, 1988, a westbound Burlington Northern train faces a strong snowstorm at Summit, Montana, on Marias Pass. Trailing BN No. 7164 is a Rio Grande Tunnel Motor, surely familiar to snow and ... (more)

A pair of red and gray SD50S units await a call to duty at Utah Railway's Martin Shop in Helper, Utah.

A westbound Rio Grande manifest freight descends the grade from Soldier Summit through the horseshoe at Gilluly on March 27, 1977. A GP40-2, a GP35, and three GP30s lead the colorful train with a ... (more)

At dusk, a BNSF Z train attacks the eastern slope of Ash Hill as Amboy Crater looms in the distance.

An eastbound empty Union Pacific export ore train bound for Cedar City, Utah, traverses Arnold Loop on Silver Zone Pass near Clifside, Nevada, on March 6, 2012.

Westbound Milwaukee Road freight train climbing the grade up from the Columbia River at Doris, Washington, on July 14, 1979. Photograph by John F. Bjorklund and courtesy of the more)

A pair of GF6Cs assist a CN-powered coal train at MP 53.4 on BC Rail's Tumbler Ridge Subdivision. 7 miles west of Tumbler Ridge.

A Canadian National stack train treads through Black Canyon of the Thompson River west of Ashcroft, British Columbia, on a hot June 25, 2006. In the far distance on the other side of the river is ... (more)

Its rare to find a day with puffy clouds on the Sand Hills as the BNSF 6312 charges around the corner at Antioch with less than 2 hours left to work meeting mow most of the day. The rail gangs ha... (more)

Rio Grande GP9s 5942 & 5911 assemble loaded hoppers at Geneva Steel's dolomite quarry at Keigley, Utah. This perspective looks westward across the Goshen Valley with the East Tintic Mountains in t... (more)

Rio Grande GP9s 5911 & 5942 make a switch move at Geneva Steel's dolomite quarry at Keigley, Utah. Caboose 01466 was assigned to work D&RGW's Tintic Local out of Provo for several years. 6805 ft. ... (more)

As the desert sun sets, a 10,000-ton coal train off the UP at Barstow roars up the stiff grade out of Mojave into the Tehachapi Mountains. The coal train is headed for a cogenerator in the San Joa... (more)

Standing guard over Helena are the Elk Mountains. These mountains made Helena one of the richest gold mining camps in the West during the last half of the 19th Century. No less magnificent, t... (more)

The daily Walsenburg turn, or PUPU as it's called on the radio, makes its way around the remains of the former Rio Grande roundhouse as it heads towards the UP yard after passing through the the s... (more)