Wheel Slip Control can be heard screaming as this westbound coal load thunders towards Iron Ridge in Run 8. This is the toughest section of climb on the entire MRL mainline. The sight and sound... (more)

This was somewhere around Alamosa, CO. I was vacationing in the Midwest and happen to spot this from a local road, maybe half a mile away. It was on a very rarely used segment of track, possibly a... (more)

After Making a Quick Stop to Pick up a few passangers in Rockwood Colorado, DSNG 482 slowly and carefully snakes its way through the San Juan Mountains while on the Railroads "High Line"... (more)

MRL4408 leads an Officers special across Skyline Trestle. The special is climbing Mullan Pass on its was home to Missoula. Perhaps, the passengers are enjoying a nice evening Chardonnay as they ... (more)

The "LM" crawls up Bozeman Pass in Run 8. MRL4403 is a 'new' heavy SD70ACE. The Heavy EMD is working hard for what it was made for, tackling Rocky Mountain Grades..... The Crazy Mountains provid... (more)

Out For a Sunday Ride: BNSF Railway officials and shippers enjoy a Sunday train ride along the Middle Fork of the Flathead River on July 20, 2014. The train ran from Seattle to Whitefish th... (more)

Late evening sun starts to pierce the clouds as this freight heads towards Cheyenne

Two brand new ACe's have crested Mullan Pass and cruise West along the Little Blackfoot River between Avon and Garrison.

A new CitiRail GEVO drops an empty coal train down the 2.2% slide of Mullan Pass.

After the derailment of Boeing 737 fuselages into the Clark Fork River, the Boeing train became the hottest train on the railroad. Here is one of those "Hot" moves crossing Greenhorn Vi... (more)

Five veteran EMD's with a heavy Spokane to Laurel manifest is easing down the Emerald Hills with its 1.80% grade of Bozeman Pass.

KCS 4817 and a BNSF GP39 lead a Boeing special over the 10th Subdivision along the Flathead River on a sensational Summer afternoon.

This train was the hottest train on the railroad a... (more)

Fish Creek Canyon lies on Milwaukee Road's Pipestone Pass. The 5 mile Canyon section of the pass was amongst the least photographed of the many miles of spectacular mainline due to its inaccessi... (more)

One of my favorite places to spend a morning is on the upper Austin Loop on Mullan Pass. You can hear a train thundering out of Tobin for almost an hour before it reaches this spot. The massive ... (more)

VIA F40PH-3s 6459 (ex. 6403), 6413 and 6419 arrive at Jasper East with VIA Rail Canada's Westbound "Canadian".