CN 5756 leads a quartet of CN power east with train 106, double stacks, onto the causeway at Swan Landing along the shore of Brule Lake just east of Jasper National Park.

Railroading is a game of numbers.

90 cylinders. 10,800 horsepower. 7,894 tons. 17,200 more horsepower. 2.2 percent.

Three MRL SD45's, with the help of four more EMD's cu... (more)

13,200 ponies from three big GE's claw West up the 2.2% grade of Mullan Pass; but not with the help of four manned Montana Rail Link SD70ACe's cut in two-thirds of the way back and a single BNSF A... (more)

GE C40-8M “cowl” No. 2403 leads Canadian National train No. 347 through Brule Tunnel toward Park Gate, Alberta, on the afternoon of July 12, 2014.

It’s 8:25 p.m. on the evening of August 3, 2014. A low rumble can be heard along the Colorado River under deep blue colors of a fading day in the valley surrounding Radium, Colorado. Another coa... (more)

A CitiRail leased ES44AC no. 1331 and two BNSF C44-9W's ease the Provo, UT to Denver, CO manifest down the grade from Big Ten Curve. The Denver Skyline and suburbs can be seen in the background.

A CitiRail leased ES44AC no. 1331 leads two BNSF C44-9W's on this Provo, UT to Denver, CO manifest down the 2% grade through Coal Creek Canyon west of Denver.

Picture yourself here; birds are singing below, fish are jumping in the Missouri, and the ever so faint sound of two EMD 645's rumbling Eastbound with the Helena to Logan local echo through the ca... (more)

Montana Rail Link SD45's 318, 351, and 382 roar Eastbound, leaving the Crazy Mountains behind, and charges into the first rays of sunlight near Big Timber, Montana with BNSF's Spokane, Washington ... (more)

A Canadian Pacific coal train 152 cars long cruises across the Canal Flats causeway powered by CP 8743, and mid-train DPU and a rear DPU.

Amtrak No. 5, the westbound California Zephyr, has just exited 294-foot Tunnel 39 and is now threading 63-foot Tunnel 40 in the heart of Little Gore Canyon between Azure and Radium, Colorado, on t... (more)

Four SD70ACe's assist two GE's on the task of lifting their heavy "container grainer" stack train through the Austin Curves and up the 2.2% grade. The name container grainer comes from t... (more)

Double-heading to Cumbres Pass. There are not many places left in the US where you can see steam double-headers in regular, revenue service. Some tourist railroads and museums run them on ... (more)

With storm clouds rolling over the mountains of Jasper National Park, Canadian National train No. 513 passes Windy Point west of Devona, Alberta, on July 10, 2014. Originating at Hinton, the huge ... (more)

Passing milepost 8 on Canadian National’s Albreda Subdivision, train No. 196 approaches the crew change of Jasper at Geikie, Alberta, on July 11, 2014.