With dark clouds and storms surrounding Lombard, Montana, on the afternoon of June 17, 2014, a BNSF coal train snakes along the Missouri River in scenic Lombard Canyon on Montana Rail Link’s Sec... (more)

A double set of Helpers just finished shoving a Manifest up the West side of Bozeman hill and will now switch to aid in braking as they transverse to top of Bozeman pass heading towards Livingston... (more)

A quartet of SD40-2's haul a pig train over Sherman Hill. No photographer name on slide.

A Veranda turbine helps Big Boy 4020 with a reefer train over Sherman Hill. Photo taken by Jack Pfeifer.

At Dale Creek Junction, three locomotives pull a westbound manifest train over track 3 toward Sherman summit.

Gas turbine 54 comes out of the Hermosa tunnels with a wood reefer in tow. No photographer listed on slide.

The track crew had just gotten out of the way when 8897 came into sight. The train is seen under the Ross Peak signal bridge climbing the western slope out of Revelstoke.

Photogenic Phantom. One of the two surviving Baldwin K-27 "Mudhens" rolls a consist of tanks and boxes westbound through Phantom Curve, just outside Osier, Colorado on a sunny, fall afterno... (more)

A pair of UP U30C's along with a couple of CNW units pull a coal train over track 3, also known as the Harriman Cutoff. This is a longer less steeper grade and is about to rejoin the original mai... (more)

Phantom in the phall. The morning sun illuminates the Aspens as D&RGW Consolidation #315 leads a stock extra eastbound through Phantom Curve, en route to Antonito, CO.

UP 735 on the Encampment branch. The line enters the main at Walcott, 21 miles east of Rawlins and extends south to Encampment. Photo part of my collection taken by Tom Moungovan.

After leaving Canon city the Royal Gorge route train heads into the most spectacular section of the Gorge.

Seven EMD's and a GEVO crawl out of Helena with a load of Montana's finest black diamonds bound for Roberts Bank.

Here comes the Silverton up from the canyon. A Durango & Silverton special passenger extra emerges from the Animas Canyon at the Timber Bridge just outside Silverton, Colorado, during Railf... (more)

I just happened to be in the area when I heard the Royal Canadian Pacific was going out for a quick trip to Lake Louise from Calgary. Catching this train is proving to be difficult this year due t... (more)