Trout through the ice An eastbound BNSF intermodal train cruises by Frog Pond west of Trout Creek, Montana, on January 25, 2013. Not long before the arrival of this train, the young dau... (more)
BNSF 6085 leads 3 Dash 9s and a vehicle train westbound up the grade of the east slope of Stevens Pass along Nason Creek just west of Merritt, Washington. Note 4 different color schemes of BNSF po... (more)
The mid-day passenger train tackles the stiff 3.9% grade out of Mifengyan behind C2 #09. Here the track winds through a field of flowering rape seed plants. Every March, the hills in the this regi... (more)
A loaded coal train descends the eastern slope of Tennessee Pass, and is about to pass the west switch for the siding at Princeton. From this angle, the right-of-way of the old Colorado Midland R... (more)
Cumbres after dark. With her day's assignment as a helper now complete, a D&RGW K-36 simmers on the main in front of the depot at Cumbres Pass, with only the night hostlers keeping watch. ... (more)