A relaxing afternoon along the Montana’s Clark Fork at Trout Creek sees one last train before nightfall sets in on October 2, 2013, as an eastbound BNSF coal train trundles by.

Rolling eastbound on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision is a BNSF manifest freight passing through a wintery landscape at the edge of the Clark Fork and a frozen Frog Pond as it approaches T... (more)

In a view from my campsite off the old Denver & Salt Lake Railway’s grueling, long abandoned route over lofty Rollins Pass is Union Pacific MGJNY exiting the 6.21-mile Moffat Tunnel. It’s 8:45... (more)

Stack over Two Medicine
It’s autumn, but snow has already coated the jagged peaks in Glacier National Park. On October 8, 2018, a BNSF stack train crosses the oft-photographed Two Med... (more)

Montana Rail Link EMD GP35 No. 404 heads up the Harrison branch light engine to retrieve a pair of empty fertilizer cars at the Harrison Elevator on June 27, 2023. To the southwest in the backgrou... (more)

Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr traces the Colorado River through scenic Ruby Canyon between Shale and Utaline, Colorado, on the afternoon of June 23, 2021. The Sightseer Lounge would be a ... (more)

A BNSF manifest freight climbs westbound through Big 10 Curve between Rocky and Eisele (Clay), Colorado, on Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision at 6:06 a.m. the morning of June 4, 2014. Th... (more)

Rio Grande EMD GP60 Nos. 3155 and 3154 power a summer edition of the Rio Grande Ski Train downgrade out of Plainview, Colorado, on the afternoon of August 5, 2000. For a short while anyway, these ... (more)

Autumn on the Hi Line
On October 8, 2018, a westbound BNSF grain train exits Tunnel 4 and curves along the Middle Fork of the Flathead River just east of West Glacier (Belton), Montana.

At the bottom of the inner depths of Royal Gorge where Rio Grande trains once ran, is the passenger train of Royal Gorge Route Railroad on August 26, 2021. The view is looking down from the famous... (more)

While following the Missouri River through Lombard Canyon, an eastbound BNSF grain train passes Toston Dam east of Toston, Montana, running on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision on the morni... (more)

On the morning of July 3, 2020, BNSF’s Denver to Laurel freight enters Himes Canyon just north of Himes, Wyoming. Himes Canyon is located between the sidings of Himes and Kane along the Bighorn ... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s gas local has just departed the facility at Pipeline at Thompson Falls and crosses a bridge over the Thompson River near Woodlin in the scenic Clark Fork Valley on the mornin... (more)

The incredible depth of breathtaking Royal Gorge dwarfs a 16-car Royal Gorge Route Railroad passenger train as it negotiates tight, rocky confines along the Arkansas River near the old siding loca... (more)

Below the imposing escarpment of Dodge’s Bluff, Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr traces the Colorado River in spectacular Ruby Canyon just east of Utaline, Colorado, on June 23, 2021.