Bringing up the rear of Amtrak’s 10-car California Zephyr is heavyweight private car Santa Fe No. 33, the “Redwood Empire,” built by Pullman in 1923 for the Santa Fe as business car No. 33. ... (more)

Amtrak’s eastbound California Zephyr descends on the two percent grade of the Moffat Tunnel route after rounding Big 10 Curve between Eisele and Rocky, Colorado, on the afternoon of May 4, 2018.... (more)

An eastbound BNSF freight crosses Bridge 55 on Montana rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision main line through Trout Creek, Montana, on February 5, 2022.

A quintet of Freeport McMoRan EMD GP38/38-2s haul a train of sulphuric acid tank cars up the steep grade between Clifton and Morenci, Arizona, on October 27, 2020. The subdivision spread out behin... (more)

On the afternoon of July 6, 2023, Montana Rail Link’s Helena local hauls eleven cars downgrade out of Winston for the lime plant at Townsend, Montana. It’s raining, but I still shot the local ... (more)

Reflections at Raymore
A glowing sunset reflects interesting patterns on a cut of 86-foot auto parts boxcars on an eastbound Soo Line train at Raymore, Wisconsin, on September 26, 1987.... (more)

Late day luminescence
Momentarily parting clouds allow the lowering sun to illuminate a northbound (timetable westbound) BNSF freight following the North Platte River through Wendover C... (more)

Deseret Power Railway’s afternoon coal train is climbing out of Coyote Basin between milepost 26 and 27 east of Bonanza, Utah, on a beautiful June 21, 2023.

A BNSF coal empty climbs the northbound grade of Logan Hill at Logan, Wyoming, on the afternoon of July 10, 2023. In the house track at Logan is a loaded TVAX No. 680267, bad ordered and waiting f... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s day gas local crosses the Thompson River east of Thompson Falls, Montana, and is following the Clark Fork on MRL’s Fourth Subdivision main line on October 14, 2018.

Being centrally located on the Union Pacific system, Bailey Yard at North Platte, Nebraska, is a busy place and processes trains day and night, all week—all year. On the eve of May 4, 2011, boxc... (more)

A room with a view to the show
With freight train congestion ahead, a slick move by the BNSF dispatcher, at least for the passengers of Amtrak’s train 5, crossed the westbound Califor... (more)

At Teck’s Cardinal River Operation near Cadomin, Alberta, on August 8, 2016, a third section of a 150-car Canadian National coal train has finished loading its 50 cars and is now heading downgra... (more)

The third 50-car section of a Canadian National empty coal train enters the Luscar Industrial Spur near Cadomin, Alberta, on August 8, 2016. These 150-car trains operate in three sections to load ... (more)

Union Pacific GE ES44AC No. 5417 leads a westbound UP freight past milepost 822 as the train climbs Peru Hill between Green River and Peru, Wyoming, on the afternoon of June 22, 2023.