Two EMD SD70Ms wait for work at Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop in North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 19, 2015. No. 5090 has a “standard” SD70M cab, while slightly newer sister No. 51... (more)

Portland and Western’s American turn makes a slow rock-n-roll trip up Fourth Street in Harrisburg, Oregon, on September 27, 2016. The interurban qualities of the PNWR’s OE District is owed to ... (more)

A westbound Montana Rail Link “Jimbo” work train, powered by MRL EMD SD40-2XR No. 259, crosses an icy Clark Fork River at Clark Fork, Idaho.

An Albany & Eastern log train is crossing Oregon State Highway 226 just south of Crabtree, Oregon, on September 27, 2016. The train is returning from the Teevin Bros. log yard and reload facility ... (more)

An Albany & Eastern log train switches empties for loads at the Teevin Bros. log yard and reload facility at Crabtree, Oregon, on September 27, 2016. A school bus heading east on Crabtree Drive wi... (more)

Two BNSF coal trains meet at Algoma, Idaho, on a snowy February 27, 2017. BNSF GE ES44AC No. 6280 is the DPU on the eastbound empty, while BNSF EMD SD70ACe No. 9290 leads the westbound coal load o... (more)

A BNSF coal train makes its way through the North Dakota Badlands at Sully Springs on August 26, 2018, while eastbound on the railroad’s Dickinson Subdivision.

A partly cloudy, moonless night reveals an eastbound Union Pacific oil train following the Colorado River into Little Gore Canyon on September 18, 2023. The lead locomotive headlights illuminate t... (more)

Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr has just exited Little Gore Canyon and is approaching Radium, Colorado, on the afternoon of September 19, 2023.

Storming past milepost 215
Montana’s Winston Hill between Townsend and Helena seems to be a magnate for afternoon thunderstorms in summer. Being east of the Continental Divide and wed... (more)

Inside the Diesel House at Union Pacific’s former Rio Grande Burnham Shops at Denver, Colorado, two machinists work on a cylinder of the 7FDL16 prime mover of UP GE AC4400CW No. 7334 on December... (more)

Four rugged EMD HT-C SD locomotive trucks are in the process of being rebuilt inside Union Pacific’s massive Downing B. Jenks locomotive shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 19, 2015.

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)

Copper Basin Railway engineer Aaron Nichols throttles up EMD GP39 No. 401 on the CBRY Smelter Job uphill out of Hayden Junction to the Arsarco Smelter complex at Hayden, Arizona, on the morning of... (more)

Amtrak’s California Zephyr treads through short-but-scenic Byers Canyon west of Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado, on September 18, 2023. This former Rio Grande route is now Union Pacific’s Moffat... (more)