A trio of SP tunnel motors are powering the Potash Local. The train has arrived at Potash and is shown switching cars against the backdrop of the impressive red cliffs

Union Pacific 6778 passes Baskin in Echo Canyon. Pulling an afternoon westbound.

Grain on the move on the Union Pacific and the BNSF along the Columbia River. Canadian Pacific meets BNSF at the mouth of the Deschutes Canyon. BNSF climbs the Oregon Trunk Line south towards Bend... (more)

Hundreds of engines sit at Pantano Storage

Union Pacific GE AC4400CW-CTEs Nos. 6044 and 5946 overpower a one-car Potash local along the Colorado River after departing Potash, Utah, on March 4, 2012. The towering sandstone cliffs loom over ... (more)

Setting up for the days work of rail replacement on the Mojave Sub.

Six Engines on a Local ...

BNSF train L-CAL0111-13 is a local heading from Barstow to Kaiser (Fontana), California. The six locomotives powering this train (SD70ACe 9041 and ES44DCs... (more)

Chicago & North Western C44-9Ws No. 8617, 8625 and Union Pacific C41-8W No. 9549 pull Southern Pacific's Intermountain Power to Skyline coal train through the Red Narrows of Spanish Fork Canyon on... (more)

Passing through remarkable Sheep Canyon is BNSF’s Cowley turn returning to Greybull, Wyoming, on June 22, 2016. Two recently reactivated EMD SD70MACs power the southbound train that is following... (more)

The Rio Grande Zephyr Passed through numerous spectacular canyons in its journey between Denver and Salt Lake City, including Gore, Little Gore, Glenwood, Ruby, and Debeque Canyons. Arguably the m... (more)

On a sunny afternoon in central Oregon, all that can be heard is the flowing Deschutes River below. This changes dramatically with the introduction of a new resonance coming from down river. Slowl... (more)

The Blue Hour at Dos Cabezas - [Vernal Equinox 2016 +1 Series] - The abandoned water tower at Dos Cabezas California (Imperial County) sits in the Sonoran Desert in Anza Borego State Park ... (more)

The PIR Intermodal Yard at Coyote Wells - [Vernal Equinox 2016 +1 Series] - STBX #4501 sits on a setout track in the brush at Coyote Wells California. There are no operating trains on ... (more)

Border Crossing - A westbound stack train bound for the port of Los Angeles crosses the Colorado River into California from Yuma Arizona on a beautiful winter afternoon in January.