4601 up along the hillside

A BNSF loaded coal train from Peabody Energy's El Segundo Mine to Tuscon Electric and Power's Springerville Power Plant passes through the red cliffs at Escalante Jct on April 4, 2012.

A CP GE leads a SD32ECO and a recently reactivated SD60 on a southbound freight past a dilapidated red barn near Donnybrook, ND on 9/24/13.

TMBL 7001 leads 2 other SD40-3's and another SD70ACe-T4 and 24 cars up the 3.3% ex-Milwaukee Road Tacoma Gulch as it nears the top of the grade on 4/4/17.

On a beautiful summer morning, Amtrak train 513 glides along the Puget Sound, just a mere minute before its next station stop of Edmonds,WA on July 9, 2011.

A boy on a bike watches the arrival of the Crossett and Western #10 and train into the depot in Yacolt,WA on 5/27/07.

The GCRY 4960 and ATSF 3751 doublehead the Grand Canyon Limited north towards the Grand Canyon, seen here whistling for the Pronghorn Ranch Road crossing 5/16/12.

CLC's Rocky Point Turn shoves his train hard up the hill so he can then reverse direction and continue west across the Cowlitz River Bridge towards Longview

4601 starts its journey north out of Willams Lake snaking along the hillsides

JOSQ along a lake near the siding of Potter

The engineer grabs a couple of notches to start his heavy train up the grade as 5 Alco's lead the Blue Looper coal train south out of Holbrook, AZ on 4/12/12.

Western Fuels coal train from El Segundo Mine to the Plains Electric Generating station near Prewitt, NM is in heavy dynamic braking as it slows for the 40MPH restriction at Lee Ranch Jct. on the ... (more)

Amtrak 91 leads a 3 hour late train #14 across the Dry Creek Trestle near Black Butte, CA on 6/21/13. The train struck a trespasser in Chico, CA earlier in the morning, and was dog caught at Black... (more)

Amtrak train #4, with Heritage 3 painted engine 145 leading AMTK 815, and Veterans painted engine AMTK 42, heads east on a beautiful late summer morning at Manuelito, NM, 9/21/13.

Haystack Mountain provides the backdrop for an on time Amtrak #3, led by Amtrak 184. This train is traveling on Main #2 on the line split west of Prewitt, NM(RR station name Baca), BNSF Gallup Sub... (more)