Royal Gorge train heads under what was once the highest suspension bridge in the world. A lot seems to have happened since my last visit here 8 years ago with many of the attractions on the side r... (more)

An eastbound BNSF coal train crosses the frozen Clark Fork at Bridge 57 west of Trout Creek, Montana, on February 9, 2014.

Smokin’ up Bozeman
Montana Rail Link’s LM (Laurel to Missoula freight) climbs Bozeman Pass east of Muir, Montana, on September 23, 2002. Eight SD45/SD45-2 locomotives racking up an ... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight climbs out of Clay and crosses Blue Mountain Drive grade crossing on September 10, 2000. Three Dash 9s power the train, which is about to ... (more)

This Is The End: In recent months, nearly a dozen Montana Rail Link SD45-2s have been sold and scrapped in Livingston, Mont. and these three locomotives – leading BNSF Railway's H-KCKSPO1... (more)

With the help of four Montana Rail Link SD70ACe's cut in mid train, three EMD AC's battle the 2.4% grade of Mullan Pass, soaring high above the Austin Creek on the famed Skyline Trestle.

After meeting an Eastbound manifest, two twenty-cylinder behemoths accelerate back to 35MPH, ducking under the vintage NP cantilever with a hot ribbon rail train bound for BNSF's Lakeside Sub doub... (more)

Returning train takes the loop on what was to become a strange day for weather with thunderstorms, lightening and a tornado close to Denver.

Dynamic brakes howl out of five veteran EMD's which have a heavy Spokane to Laurel manifest on the drawbars, easing down the emerald hills and 1.80% grade of Bozeman Pass.

Ninety six EMD cylinders battle gravity and wet rail climbing Bozeman Pass. The sound was amazing.

Five Montana Rail Link SD45's rumble across the rapid waters of the Fish Creek, catching first light of the day on a cool Spring morning. You can't beat 100 cylinders in the eighth notch as a way ... (more)

Crickets are chirping, frogs are ribbiting and the occasional dolphin jumps out of the Frog Pond while a heavy stack train bound for Logistics Park, Illinois hustles over the MRL's 4th Subdivision... (more)

Amtrak #5, The California Zephyr, rounds the horseshoe just east of Pinecliffe, Colorado. The train is about to enter the short bore of Tunnel #29.

Durango and Silverton 482 leads the first train of the 2014 Summer Season into Rockwood Colorado.

For long years foreign territory (the CPR line is on the opposite side of the Fraser River), nowadays daily business. A coal train hauled by CP #8628 is running on CN's main through the Fraser Riv... (more)