In the early 1960s, The Rio Grande hired Morrison-Knudsen to build a branchline from Brendel, Utah to a potash mine South of Moab. The 35.77-mile line was completed in 1963. The scenery on the lin... (more)

Passengers wait on platform to board a Northeast Regional bound for Boston.

Following some crazy Wyoming weather of rain and hail in late July, a Union Pacific engine move shuffles under the large signal bridge to the west of Cheyenne Yard.

A Slim Princess Sunset. The setting sun bursts through the cab windows of Southern Pacific Locomotive #18, the "Slim Princess", as a clear, chilly March day comes to an end in the... (more)

Iowa has seen a few solid IC SD70's consists come and go. Today the weather was not ideal, I will take the sun. The past few consists have had bad weather or I have been on them. Today a 2x1 DP-d... (more)

After a full day of strong winds and challenging conditions, BNSF dispatched a set of 6 motors to clear drifts on the Jamestown Sub. They're seen here passing the DPU of a coal load that has been ... (more)

NS 4165, a GE Dash 9-44CW rebuilt in April, 2018 to a AC44C6M, leads the S-ALTSCO out of Crozier Canyon during the some late winter storm light.

After playing musical chairs with their passenger cars near Rice to set out a bad order, the westbound Empire Builder kicks up the snow at sunrise near Hawley.

The sun sets in Cassandra, PA on a cold winter day, as a Norfolk Southern manifest climbs the grade up the Allegheny Mountains. The vivid sunset has hues, making the snow appear purple on the grou... (more)

An overnight snowstorm has coated the Rockies and adjacent foothills with snow as BNSF's Buck Local climbs Burke's Hill into Louisville, CO on their way to interchange industries in Broomfield and... (more)

Fall is in the air(and on the ground, in the creeks) as the Bald Knob excursion returns to Cass.

A westbound BNSF oil can begins its journey down MRL's 4th subdivision in the very last moments of golden hour light west of Missoula, MT. An afternoon microburst had just rolled through and made ... (more)

Reading & Northern Railroad has just finished the restoration of its Former Reading Railroad T-1, 2102. Here the Locomotive has just left the confines of the Engine house in Port Clinton, and ging... (more)

The thick smoke from wildfires further west subsides briefly to allow the sun to illuminate a westbound BNSF manifest working its way past Kootenai Falls on BNSF's Kootenai Subdivision between Whi... (more)

I stayed overnight in a dump of a motel, got up a 4:45 AM, got soaked in the rain, drove 400 miles round trip, spent hundreds of dollars, and after waiting 27 years, was it worth it?

You bet you... (more)