Union Pacific’s LJP45 “dirt train” rumbles through Spring Glen, Utah, on the morning of April 4, 2000. Three Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 Tunnel Motors power the eastbound local, with No. 5347 lea... (more)

The Rio Grande Ski Train of March 2, 2002, has some “heritage” leading as it approaches Tunnel 1 east of Plainview, Colorado. Union Pacific EMD GP60 No. 1900, the former Rio Grande No. 3154, t... (more)

An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe train crosses the Clark Fork and passes the mile 210.3 semaphore east of Quinns, Montana, on June 30, 2000.

Normally, the "West Local" doesn't travel west of Rocky Flats but on certain occasion it does to pick up bad ordered car(s) at Pinecliffe. Seen here, after swapping ends, the crew lines the derail... (more)

A short Hutchinson, KS to Oakland, CA freight passes the signal at the east end of Minturn siding. Chasing this afternoon westbound was the perfect way to end a day of railfanning Tennessee Pass ... (more)

BN 6805 leads two more SD40-2s and an F45 around the bend east of Livingston on a beautiful July morning. Next stop Laurel. BN would own this route for three more years, and the F45 would be gone ... (more)

Powered by three warbonnet-clad GEs, a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight rumbles through Rollinsville, Colorado, on February 23, 2000, on Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel Subd... (more)

BN 6317 and 7501 head a train west along the Clark fork just west of the Noxon bridge. The 7501 was converted to a B unit in the early 1980s.

Train #8, the EB Empire Builder, works toward the summit of Marias Pass.

Two Southern Pacific GE AC4400CWs lead an eastbound coal train out of the Moffat Tunnel at East Portal, Colorado, on the colorful autumn morning of September 27, 2000.

After dropping and picking up passengers at the Devils Gate Station, Shay no. 9 starts up the steep grade back to Silver Plume.

The southbound Aurora Winter passenger train is about an hour out of Anchorage on what has become a typical afternoon over the last two weeks or so. Beautiful spring weather has made for great pho... (more)

Foreign Power leading trains on Moffat is extremely rare. Here, two NS units lead a BNSF Dash 9 on BNSF's Provo, UT to Denver, CO manifest around the Big Ten Curve west of Denver.

Exhaust singes the sky as the Laurel-Missoula Manifest screams out of Helena. The train will soon reach grades of 2.2% on its twisting climb up and over the Continental Divide.

Laying on the smoke for the Railfans.... 487 Climbs Tanglefoot Curve under a smoke screen only the Steam Fan could appreciate.