A westbound grain train is plodding up the steep grade from Pica to Yampai summit. After surmounting the grade in another mile, it will be downhill for over a hundred miles to Needles.

Southbound manifest passing one of many slide detectors.

A late morning southbound manifest has just entered the canyon. The old grade from the Deschutes Railroad Company can be seen on the east bank.

An ex-BN SD60M leads a southbound BNSF local through Joliet.

BNSF locomotives working on CN for horsepower payback handle an ore train at United Taconite while the plant's contract switcher moves a car.

On one of those exhilarating mornings with the cool air fresh with the scent of pines, the 4871 East is pouring on the power for the grade to Marias Pass. The train is stretched out across the Jav... (more)

If Bobby Troup had followed US 2 along the Great Northern instead of Route 66 beside the Santa Fe, he might have written an entirely different tune: You go through Minot, Essex and Sandpoint but d... (more)

ATSF 102 leads a piggyback train at Pinole, CA on March 7, 1997.

A BNSF All-Rail UALLKES0-01T cruises through Wilpen heading to Keenan yard where a CN crew will take it to load 130 cars at USS Minntac then return it back to Keenan where a BNSF crew will re-take... (more)

The BNSF eastbound daily HPVODEN1-15A makes its appearance just in time. Repeat attempts for this shot with the right light and aspen trees in prime over the years finally worked out this past Fal... (more)

A still bright warbonnet-painted Burlington Northern Santa Fe GE C44-9W No. 4719 leads a westbound freight that begins the climb of Mullan Pass leaving Helena at Tobin on June 5, 2002. The grade i... (more)

A Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight climbs through the horseshoe curve at the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon approaching Tunnel 1 between Clay and Plainview, Colorado, on February 21, 2000... (more)

A trio of Burlington Northern Santa Fe EMD SD70MACs power a westbound coal empty along the North Platte River through Wendover Canyon west of Wendover, Wyoming on the afternoon of May 25, 1997

A Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight approaches Thompson Falls, Montana, on September 17, 2006. Leading the eastbound manifest on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision is former Santa Fe GE B... (more)

21R was the northbound version of the second pair of Atlanta-Memphis intermodals, before 201 became a direct Harrisburg-Memphis train. A Warbonnet SD75I was a treat on this day's train.