I always liked MRL's husky SD35s. Here a trio lead the gas local eastbound towards Missoula on a beautiful fall day.

Sherman Hill is covered in a nice coat of white on this spring afternoon when a westbound grain train approaches Dale Creek Junction.

GTW SD40-3 5949 and CN SD40-2W 5246 lead a very healthy L513 towards Jasper.

A pair of the newest additions to CN's motive power roster team up with another couple stragglers to lead Vancouver-Toronto train Q112 out of Jasper and onto the Edson Sub.

First train of 2014 runs out of the Animas River Canyon and into Bakers Park on the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad past Cataract Falls (Look above the rear cars)

The catenary poles were still close to the track near Stetson, Idaho as eastbound MILW 21 climbs up to St. Paul Pass and will cross into Montana in the Bitterroot summit tunnel at 4,170-ft. elevat... (more)

Boo-boo derailments were frequent in Milwaukee’s final years as evidenced here at the east end of Avery, Idaho yard when MILW 21 left town behind four SD-40-2s on July 19. 1978. A few years ear... (more)

MILW Little Joe E-72 relaxes under the sanding tower at the Avery, Idaho roundhouse, Aug. 6, 1973.

Not only is that a windshield glare but it is temporary cover over a shattered windshield on Little Joe E-71 East at Soudan, Montana on Aug. 9, 1973. The train just left Alberton and it is 105 mi... (more)

Brand new and just delivered to BC Rail, three SD40-2's numbers 764, 763 and 765 are being readied for their next assignment in the Lillooet roundhouse. While the red, white and blue color scheme... (more)

Three brand new BNSF SD70ACe's lead this loaded coal train from the Utah Railway through the canyon walls at Pinecliffe, Colorado along South Boulder Creek.

Three brand new BNSF SD70ACe's lead their first loaded coal train run down the grade just east of the Moffat Tunnel on the former DRGW mainline. The snow capped continental divide provide a nice b... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific coal empty wraps itself around Big 10 Curve as it passes the east switch at Eisele, Colorado, on the long climb to the Moffat Tunnel on the nice clear afternoon of June 9... (more)

Amtrak’s westbound Southwest Chief climbs Raton Pass at Wootton, Colorado, on March 6, 2005. Two deadhead Superliner cars up front make for a strange looking train…

A southbound Canadian Pacific empty coal train curves along the Columbia River below the bluffs of Radium Hot Springs, British Columbia, on July 24, 2011.