A westbound BNSF freight crosses the massive bridge over a frozen Cut Bank Creek at Cut Bank, Montana, on December 22, 2007. In 1900, predecessor Great Northern Railway built this steel bridge to ... (more)

I really dislike graffiti on railroad equipment, and don’t make a point of specially-recording any of it in a photograph. But once in a blue moon a car will go by that catches my attention. On Feb... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific coal train drops downgrade out of Pinecliffe, Colorado, as it crosses South Boulder Creek and approaches Tunnel 29 on July 29, 2000.

The crew has arrived as the power for Montana Rail Link’s Paradise Local waits across the main line from the Paradise depot on the morning of September 22, 2006. After a little more paperwork, and... (more)

A trio of Union Pacific GE AC4400CW locomotives lead a coal empty upgrade through Clay, Colorado, on the afternoon of May 23, 2000.

Cresting the top of Montana’s Winston Hill on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision east of Helena is a westbound BNSF coal train on the afternoon of July 2, 2018.

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight climbs the grade on Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision approaching Tolland, Colorado, on February 21, 2000.

Canadian Pacific’s Royal Canadian Pacific luxury passenger train weaves along the Kicking Horse River as it descends toward Golden between Palliser and Glenogle, British Columbia, on the afternoon... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific Office Car Special operating for the Board of Directors passes through colorful Red Canyon along the Colorado River between Dell and Range, Colorado, on September 28, 200... (more)

Colorado Highway 72 is a bit slick this morning, with Coal Creek Canyon covered in a nice coat of snow on this late winter morning of March 2, 2002. Circling the big curve is the Rio Grande Ski Tr... (more)

In a view from the cab of trailing unit EMD GP39CLC No. 505, eastbound Copper Basin Railway’s OT-1 ore train is about to thread Tunnel 2 near Ray Junction, Arizona, on April 20, 2017.

Union Pacific’s MRODV (Roper Yard in Salt Lake City to Denver) manifest freight drops downgrade led by a colorful locomotive set at Plainview, Colorado, on the afternoon of September 3, 2000.

Montana Rail Link built a short section of track on old Milwaukee Road branch line right-of-way at Bonner, Montana, to help facilitate cleanup of the Milltown Dam site in 2009. Years of mining act... (more)

An eastbound BNSF coal train passes Toston Dam on the Missouri River east of Toston, Montana, on the afternoon of September 11, 2011.

At 3:30 p.m. on the afternoon of August 20, 1988, a westbound Santa Fe freight climbs Edelstein Hill around Houlihan’s Curve west of Chillicothe, Illinois. The lead locomotive is an EMD FP45 that ... (more)