SP freight climbing Tennessee Pass. This magnificent piece of Railroad is now sadly closed

Headed toward Whitefish, MT on the Hiline sub a BN eastbound freight has a good roll on them going through Elmira, ID. In the late 80's and early 90's Burlington Northern was tweaking with its lo... (more)

Where silence now reigns
At a place today where all you hear is wind off lofty peaks and coyote yelps, was once a place where trains fought grades up a 10,221-foot mountain pass. On Jul... (more)

The Rocky Mountaineer tour train is westbound just east of Glenogle, British Columbia, in Kicking Horse Canyon on Canadian Pacific’s Mountain Subdivision on September 22, 2013.

Union Pacific’s Potash local approaches Emkay, Utah, on a warm March 4, 2012. Located in red rock country, Emkay is just across from the entrance to Arches National Park.

Passing through a snowshed and about to enter Cathedral Tunnel, a westbound Canadian Pacific grain train drops down Kicking Horse Pass east of Field, British Columbia, on September 23, 2013.

Climbing the horse shoe curve at the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon east of Plainview, Colorado, is a westbound Union Pacific CSUX coal empty on October 11, 1999. Six locomotives power the train, incl... (more)

An eastbound Canadian Pacific train pauses in the yard at Golden, British Columbia, as the mechanical department checks a problem with the trailing locomotive. While this is going on, westbound to... (more)

A northbound BNSF manifest with an unusual five Boeing fuselages up front is just starting to long descent to Denver after topping the Palmer Divide near Palmer Lake

Three Burlington Northern EMD SD70MACs lead an empty coal train westbound out of Wendover Canyon at Cassa, Wyoming, on July 9, 1999.

A BNSF Railway coal train headed to Centralia, Washington, skirts Frog Pond, and the Clark Fork River west of Trout Creek, Montana, on Montana Rail Link's 4th Subdivision.

On March 3, 2002, Amtrak’s train No. 3, the Southwest Chief, snakes through the tight confines of scenic Apache Canyon between Canyoncito and Lamy, New Mexico.

Montana Rail Link's 844 Local is westbound near Whitehall, Montana, on October 1, 2013. The local serves Whitehall on the Fifth Subdivision as needed, with the hopper behind the locomotive to be s... (more)

A northbound BNSF grain empty has just topped the grade up Monument Hill and is starting the long descent to Denver and points east.

Canadian National train No. 117 passes through Louis Creek, British Columbia, on July 21, 2011. Leading the train along the North Thompson River is GE ES44DC No. 2340 and C44-9W No. 2562. Although... (more)