Canadian National train No. 111 passes Windy Point west of Devona, Alberta, on July 16, 2013, as it passes beautiful Jasper Lake and the rugged scenery in Jasper National Park.

An empty Union Pacific coal train led by an assortment of GE's round the s-curve while entering Coal Creek Canyon west of Arvada and Denver, Colorado.

Amtrak No. 3, the Southwest Chief, climbs Raton Pass at Gallinas, Colorado, on the morning of March 6, 2005. Two GE P42DC locomotives sandwich P32-8 (Dash 8-32BWH) No. 511, with a train that inclu... (more)

The trio of MRL's SD35 (705, 702 & 703) are reflecting in the Clark Fork River while pulling the empty "day gas local" near Woodlin, MT on September 8, 2005.

A westbound Rio Grande coal train crosses over Blue Mountain Drive on the approach to Coal Creek Canyon in July 1984. Five EMD SD40T-2 Tunnel Motors (Nos. 5358, 5367, 5402, 5379 and 5413) lead lon... (more)

Led by EMD SD40-2XR No. 261, Montana Rail Link's day gas local travels along the Clark Fork west of Plains at Weeksville, Montana, on May 6, 2012.

On June 6, 2013, an empty welded rail train heads east through scenic Byers Canyon west of Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado. Two EMD SD70Ms power the light tonnage train along the twisting Colorado R... (more)

A late season snowfall blankets Crescent, Colorado, as a westbound BNSF manifest freight travels westbound on Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision during the morning of March 10, 2013.

Rumbling along the Missouri River on the morning of September 12, 2011, are two Montana Rail Link SD40-2XRs (Nos. 252 and 253) powering MRL’s Helena Local into Lombard, Montana. In the foregroun... (more)

A southbound coal load waits patiently at Greenland as a coal load ahead has stalled just below the top of the climb up the Palmer Divide

Closely following the Arkansas River, an eastbound Southern Pacific freight approaches the narrowest portion of the Royal Gorge near Hanging Bridge west of Gorge, Colorado, on July 26, 1996. The v... (more)

On this warm December day, Amtrak #5 is only a minute or so from plowing right through the snow-capped Rocky Mountains dominating scene. The train is approaching East Portal siding as seen from To... (more)

An eastbound Canadian Pacific freight passes a small lake between Massive and Banff, Alberta, late in the afternoon of September 23, 2013.

BNSF's Kansas City to Denver train HKCKDEN was starting the lond descent of the Palmer Divide to Denver a mile north of the top of the Divide at Palmer Lake

With a snowy Continental Divide in the background, Union Pacific’s manifest freight from Salt lake City to Denver departs Tolland, Colorado, on September 25, 2000. Leading the train is what we u... (more)