Ottertail stacks
A westbound Canadian Pacific stack train crosses the bridge at Ottertail powered by a pair of GE AC4400CWs on a beautiful summer day in British Columbia on June 27, 200... (more)

Making it's way through the frosty Glorieta Pass, Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Cheif has just exited Apache Canyon, climbing toward Glorieta proper.

A lone freight box car sits in the vastness that is the yard at Nevada Northern in Ely, Nevada. While there are many things railroad to take in, Mother Nature makes her presence known constantly i... (more)

A westbound Rio Grande intermodal train exits the Glenwood Tunnel east of Glenwood Springs on July 6, 1987. This part of Interstate 70 highway through Glenwood Canyon was completed in 1965, with a... (more)

UP 9926 finds the morning light in the depths of the Feather River Canyon for the first time today as it leaves the Honeymoon Tunnels behind and passes the Rock Creek Dam - a popular focus point f... (more)

Canadian Pacific Railway’s first heritage SD70ACU, CP #7010, leads eastbound Vancouver, BC to Montreal, QC intermodal train 112-10 through the famous Morant’s Curve, east of Lake Louise, Alber... (more)

While most rail aficionados were wooing over the newest additions to the Canadian Pacific roster, one of the first two heritage SD70ACU locomotives, CP 7010, quietly snuck a nice little “PR cons... (more)

A westbound BNSF stack train crosses Goat Lick Trestle along the Middle Fork of the Flathead River just east of Essex amid the golden colors of autumn in Montana’s Glacier National Park country ... (more)

As the morning sun peeks over the rim of Lombard Canyon, eastbound Montana Rail Link No. 4300 rolls a manifest along the Missouri River and the Lewis and Clark Trail.

Deep in the land of cotton, things are changing. A sea of white has been replaced by a sea of yellow. Record flooding and continuous rain fall left many delta farmers to improvise; many planted ri... (more)

Fog hangs low in the valley as an early morning westbound loaded Coal Train with BNSF No. 9304 and mate, roll along the Clark Fork River near Plains Montana. Coal makes up a lot of the traffic o... (more)

I was waiting for a steam special which was so late it would have crossed this bridge in the dark. As it was this Azuma was a bonus. Diverted from the main East Coast line this working was heading... (more)

The New Road and the Old. In the 1870's a trail through the British Columbia Wilderness was constructed to offer ranchers a way to move cattle from the interior near Lillooet and Pemberton... (more)

The Railfan's Dream House. Situated along Escambia Bay, this house features a track through the backyard with several movements a day, a balcony overlooking the tracks, a pool, a pier (fishing in ... (more)

The Break in the Clouds. The sun is setting as FURX 7156 skirts the brackish waters of Escambia Bay on its way east with three flatcars of GE Generators it just picked up from the GE Plant in Pens... (more)