A coal load tops the 3% section below Pando on Tennessee Pass. The train is struggling against multiple curves some as tight as 12 degrees at Stillwater under a steady light rain. This location w... (more)

Union Pacific #8207 and Canadian National SD75I #5749 slow down on the approach to the E. siding switch at Bridgeport to check the position of the switch as they head Westbound towards Grand Jct. ... (more)

Arizona & Eastern B40-8 screams out of Clifton Tunnel #2 as it assaults the 2.12% grade out of the San Francisco River Canyon. This will be the second A&E Hill Turn out of Clifton. The Freeport ... (more)

Special heritage service between Santiago - Limache by the old and historic Mapocho - Valparaiso line (former first state railroad zone), on your return trip and at the end of the day, cross the L... (more)

Lurking beneath the rugged geology lining the Thompson River Canyon near Ashcroft, British Columbia, Canadian Pacific’s Ashcroft local switches the tie plant east of town on the morning of Septe... (more)

A BNSF oil train rumbles along the basalt cliffs above Crater Lake on the climb out of the Columbia River basin between Trinidad and Quincy, Washington, on September 21, 2016.

Late afternoon in a classic scene in Cajon Pass, it is impressive to hear the roar and effort of those engines as they face the numerous curves before reaching the Summit. A eastbound BNSF Z train... (more)

BNSF 5232 (Dash9) emerges from Tunnel 29 in Pinecliffe as it heads to Denver from the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

With rainstorms to the east, a westbound BNSF freight passes the east switch at Lombard, Montana, on the afternoon of July 2, 2017. Milwaukee Roads abandoned Pacific Extension main line is on the ... (more)

Wagons East!!!

For years, I've joked with fellow coworker and RailPictures contribuitor Elijah Cross about getting a very long telephoto lens and shooting the intermediate pai... (more)

The only thing to remind one this afternoon that its fall is a cool breeze blowing down the coast as Amtrak's appropriately named Coast Starlight skirts the Pacific Ocean while passing thro... (more)

Union Pacific 'Big Big' No. 4014 climbs up the grade after making a 45 minute stop at Langtry.

In 2011 I came to Afton Canyon to photograph Union Pacific’s steam locomotive 844 as it crossed over this bridge. It was traveling the other direction on a cold November morning, but I loved the... (more)

The rear of MWCPT passes Mormon Rocks on a nice fall morning.

Passing through a Cajon Pass landmark, the Mormon Rocks (created by the San Andreas Fault) is Union Pacific “Big Boy” 4014, leading a 23-car passenger train from Barstow to the railroad’s We... (more)