On June 16, 2001, a summertime run of Ansco’s Rio Grande Ski Train passes through 75-foot Tunnel 29 westbound just east of Pinecliffe, Colorado, on Union Pacific’s scenic former Rio Grande Mof... (more)

Taking The Long Way To Promontory. Well, the closest active rails can get to Promontory anymore: Ogden, Utah. UP 8850 leads a small, seven-car train through the iconic rocks of Chatsworth a... (more)

Union Pacific #2167 is on the point of the once-a-week Potash Local as it follows along the Colorado River on the Cane Creek Branch. This engine was originally the UP #6012.

A former BN unit leads a lite engine set out of the Springfield Underground. This facility was opened as a quarry, for mining limestone, in 1946 on Route 66 and was served originally by Frisco. To... (more)

The Potash local heads Eastbound on the Cane Creek Branch at the crossing with the Corona Arch trail.

The DPU on CSX Q542 shoves the train through the mountain at Sinks, Kentucky in beautiful Rockcastle County on the former L&N Atlanta to Cincinnati mainline. That paint scheme is certainly an unu... (more)

BNSF 7037 South threads the needle South of a tunnel at Celilo, OR, as it climbs away from the Columbia River.

Union Pacific SD70M No. 4812 leads the Potash Local, symboled "LDG51B" westbound through the tight cut approaching the Corona Arch Trailhead near Moab, Utah, on March 15, 2019.

Amtrak’s eastbound California Zephyr emerges from the shadowed 75-foot bore of Tunnel 29 just east of Pinecliffe, Colorado, on the afternoon of September 15, 2018.

Harkening back to a time when waves of armor yellow painted EMD SD40-2s were standardizing road power on Union Pacific's portion of the Overland Route, a trio of North Little Rock 'rebuilds' burst... (more)

Amtrak’s California Zephyr hustles along the Colorado River under the imposing cliff of Dodge’s Bluff just east of Utaline, Colorado, on June 13, 2009. This former Rio Grande route through bea... (more)

Pan Am Rumford-Portland freight crossing the Androscoggin River in Auburn, ME with MEC 507 (GP40-2LW) leading.

The depth and ruggedness of the Royal Gorge west of Canon City is evident in this view perched on the suspension bridge over the canyon that is 955 feet above the Arkansas River. On July 26, 1996,... (more)

A Coaster F59PHI shoves a mid-morning service along the cliffs at Del Mar back towards San Diego.

The Wengernalpbahn may be the world's longest cog railway, but it looks like a toy up against the imposing cliffs and mountains that loom over the small Swiss village of Lauterbrunnen.