The 1000 foot Presque Isle dwarfs Canadian Pacific Rices's Yard in Duluth. The massive Tug/Boat combination is in for emergency repairs, as a CP remote job switches a cut of cars. To the above lef... (more)

Perhaps one of the greenest trips I ever made to Tehachapi was in 2006. Near the height of the building boom UP and BNSF were moving massive amounts of lumber across the Pass. In this photo, UP54... (more)

UP6333 former SP266 shoves on the rear of a coal train led by UP8411 west. The train is now completely off the 2.4% and is making good speed up the 1% towards Kyunne.

I have liked this location since the first time I opened the book "Denver and Rio Grande Western; Super Power Railroad of the Rockies" by Robert A LaMassena. On page 56 there is split page photo o... (more)

An ACE and GEVO battle for the last couple hundred yards of 2.4% grade. Mid Train are 3 more AC manned swing helpers. Two DPUs are on the rear....

Two of the newest model of locomotives on the Union Pacific charge up Solider Summit. The wayside detector near Lynn said 97 degrees and 13mph. Conditions like this test any machine, man can buil... (more)

One of the last places to see sun in the Price River Canyon is here between Lynn and Nolan. The high canyon walls can make photography challenging, there is only about 3 1/2 hours of good light t... (more)

Perched near the Continental Divide, the view is one of my favorite in Montana. You can watch for 45 minutes as trains crawl out of Austin, scream thru Weed, and lastly thunder over Skyline as tra... (more)

This westbound coal load is passing under Billies Mountain. In 1982-83, record moisture soaked the mountains causing the Great Thistle Slide. The Slide buried the helper town of Thistle, the rail... (more)

The desert mountains and canyon walls dwarf this Utah coal load as it heads up the 2.4% plank towards Solider Summit. The Utah Railway currently hauls coal from the Wild-Cat and Savage load-outs.

MRL 403 is no stranger to mountain climbing. This is ex Rio Grande 3039. Today is just another day on a mountain as the venerable old Geep tackles the 2.2% grade climbing out of the Jefferson Ri... (more)

Montana Muscle! MRL SD35 701 at Logan, Montana with 10 cars of ballast for a nearby gang. Accelerating east.....Man and machine show off as the 48 year old locomotive howls under the stormy sky. ... (more)

Utah 5002 screams thru the Price River Canyon at no more than 15 MPH. The 2.4% grade was once the Mainline thru the Rockies......Rio Grande. For over 100years it was also the Utah Coal Route... U... (more)

BNSF 4681 storms west towards Mullan Pass with manned helpers cut-in mid train.....

A rare EMD SD35 brings its work train down Winston Hill. Built in 12/65 for the Norfolk & Western, this veteran of mountain grades battles on in the Rockies...