Looking more like an alien planet than a lonely railroad branch, the lower end of Union Pacific’s Cane Creek Subdivision near Moab offers a spectacular combination of slickrock, steel rails and ... (more)

The nearly abandoned town of Thompson Springs, Utah, had at least two things going for it: a cool neon sign for the Silver Grill Café and the former Rio Grande mainline. In April 1996, the late a... (more)

Three SP AC4400s are having no trouble going up the 1.1 percent grade of Thompson Hill with what I now think is iron ore for Geneva Steel.

After conquering Marias Pass, an on-time Empire Builder rolls east toward East Glacier Park just west of Bison siding on BNSF's Hi Line sub.

A westbound Rio Grande train rolls across the Eagle River bridge at Wolcott. Look carefully and see the remnants of the words "Royal Gorge Route" in faded white letters spelled out on the bridge.

In its last days running as a Chicago & North Western freight, the daily Escanaba to Green Bay train blares its way through Oconto as winter gives way to spring. The Marinette Sub offered four bl... (more)

DRGW 5401 leads the helper set as it eases back to Minturn. The helpers are crossing the Eagle River at the east end of Belden, near the town of Red Cliff on a glorious fall day. Nothing could bea... (more)

You’re in the cab of Rio Grande SD45 5321 at Avon as a westbound runs around in the siding. A friendly engineer invited me up into the cab after seeing me setting up to get a picture of the meet... (more)

The hum of dynamic brakes interrupts the morning quiet after a snowstorm the previous night on Tennessee Pass. DRGW 5404 leads a westbound doublestack downhill at 9 a.m. at the overpass just east ... (more)

DRGW 5352 West eases downgrade as it passes under U.S. 24 as it nears Belden siding.

The Garden Job crosses a small bridge over the causeway between Lake of the Isles and Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis. The job is heading back to Southtown yard in south Minneapolis after running out ... (more)

No. 7 heads out of downtown over the bike trail and across the Big Sioux River bridge.

Twenty street crossings in less than two miles on 100-pound rail dating to 1927. That’s today’s Ellis & Eastern grinding away on a former Chicago & North Western branch through the residential... (more)

Ellis & Eastern No. 7 eases across the bike trail in Sioux Falls while returning to home base on the western end of the city.

D&RGW 5508 leads an eastbound as it crosses the Eagle River two miles west of Minturn.