UP 7325 has rounded Arnolds Loop on the 1% climb to the summit of the Toano Range at Silver Zone Pass. I believe this is a grain train but it could be Soda Ash or another bulk commodity. Summit is... (more)

Union Pacific's Engineering special heads Eastbound at Dos on the Glenwood Springs Sub.

CN tested a pair of EMDX SD70ACe-T4 demos over the winter. They rarely led, so even though the light was crap on this day, I ventured out to shoot EMDX 1606 leading CN train M309. This was its las... (more)

Welcome to the Feather River Canyon. The Feather River Canyon is home to one of the most treacherous rail lines in the world. With steep cliffs and loose ground, rockslides are an ever-pres... (more)

Articulation. How do you get a 2-6-6-2 locomotive around a sharp curve? The answer is articulation. This engine has two sets of drivers. the boiler and tank sits firmly over the rear se... (more)

Union Pacific's 'Katy' heritage 1988 unit crosses the Truckee River in December 2017 near Verdi, Nevada. Union Pacific 1988 is an EMD SD70ACe locomotive owned by Union Pacific Railroad. It is one ... (more)

The Coast Smokelight. Working back up to track speed, Amtrak's northbound Coast Starlight parallels the coast as it heads north toward Carpinteria under the erie shadow of the Thomas Fire'... (more)

Early on the morning of June 24, 2017, a northbound BNSF freight bends around a sharp curve entering Himes Canyon located along the Bighorn River between Himes and Kane, Wyoming, on BNSF’s Caspe... (more)

UP 8953 (SD70AH) and UP 3040 (SD70ACe-T4) lead a short officer car special over the American Falls Dam. The special departed Twin Falls with UP and WATCO executives to Minidoka. From there, the ex... (more)

An eastbound manifest slow rolls into Helper, Utah, waiting for a train to clear in the yard.

Burlington Northern lives in Sheep Canyon.... The BNSF (BN) Cowley Turn charges out of Sheep Canyon on the return leg to Greybull, Wyoming. The deep defile along the banks of the Big Horn River is... (more)

SCAX 907, one of the only F125's cleared to be operating on the mainline, makes the first daylight appearance for its unit's class on the company's Ventura County Line (Ventura Subdivision) as it ... (more)

Just as the sun touches the lip of the mountains to the west, BNSF 8326 West passes the beautiful sandstone bluffs at Mesita, NM. This territory is all part of the Laguna Indian Reservation. The p... (more)

Rocky Mountaineer RMR P609 westbound moving down the canyon between Nicomen and Lytton along the Thompson River west of Spences Bridge, BC, Canada

The Cascades Daylight exits one of several tunnels featured back to back just west of the small town of Lyle, Washington.