Waiting for apposing traffic, an eastbound BNSF coal train sits in the siding at Winston, Montana, in the background as a westbound BNSF manifest freight grinds by, filling the curves on the appro... (more)

An eastbound BNSF intermodal passes the old Great Northern depot at Cashmere, Washington, as it drops downgrade off Stevens Pass on a snowy February 20, 2017.

An eastbound (southbound) Wisconsin Central dirt train is just north of Byron, Wisconsin on the morning of December 3, 1994. A cool lash up of SDL39 No. 584, SD45 No. 6598 and Duluth, Missabe & Ir... (more)

Late in the afternoon of July 4, 2019, Mother Nature decided to provide some of her own fireworks over Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. Torrential rain, lots of lightning and some wind sent us into t... (more)

Five Boeing fuselages entrained on a westbound BNSF intermodal train climbing Mullan Pass on Montana Rail Link on June 30, 2019. The train is crossing Austin Creek Trestle just west of Skyline, Mo... (more)

An eastbound BNSF grain train cruises along the bank of the Clark Fork between Heron and Noxon, Montana, on the afternoon of June 28, 2019.

A Montana Rail Link welder repairs the frog on the east switch at heavily-used Lombard siding in Montana’s Lombard Canyon on July 1, 2019.

An empty Canadian National unit coal train departs Leyland on the Mountain Park Subdivision for a trip up the 5.5-mile Luscar Industrial Spur to load at the Luscar Mine loadout that is part of Tec... (more)

A unit train of cement hoppers drops downgrade through the curves approaching the west switch of the siding at Bealville, California, on March 1, 2016.

Montana Rail Links’s 844 local out of Logan, Montana, stops for some work just west of town. After tying down their train on the Fifth Subdivision main, the two GP35s head up a spur to a petroleum... (more)

A southbound BNSF manifest freight exits Tunnel 177-foot Tunnel 4 between Dornick and Piper sidings in Wyoming’s Wind River Canyon on the afternoon of July 3, 2019.

SD45 under a rainbow
On July 2, 2019, after a rainy crossing of Bozeman Pass, Montana Rail Link’s Laurel to Bozeman local hits a pocket of late evening sunshine as it descends the west s... (more)

DODX flats loaded with Stryker combat vehicles crosses the fill between Tunnel Nos. 14 and 15 as a westbound Union Pacific military train climbs through the Tunnel District just east of Crescent, ... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific military train climbs through the Tunnel District just east of Crescent, Colorado, on the afternoon of June 16, 2017. The long train of military equipment from Fort Carso... (more)

A SD9 on the Zephyr?
Well, not really. In earlier years, a switcher was used at Denver Union Station, and in this view, Burlington Northern SD9 No. 6231 is adding filthy Rio Grande GP40-... (more)