Five tunnel motors are on the point of an oil train as it starts the grueling climb to Tehachapi at Caliente, California. 48 cars back are mid-train helpers, with another 24 cars and a caboose beh... (more)

Fall color is in full tilt on top of Snoqualmie Pass in Washington state as MILW 177 exits Snoqualmie Tunnel after making its eastbound climb up from Cedar Falls, WA. The train will continue to Ot... (more)

CP 2860, the Royal Hudson, makes its excursion along Howe Sound near Tunnel Point on its southbound return from Squamish to North Vancouver, BC. There are few more beautiful places to be on a sunn... (more)

BNSF Coal threading the Flatirons

Too good to pass up, Ferromex mid train helpers and all. The clearing snow storm from the previous night is giving way to the majestic Flatiro... (more)

How to get to the valley floor where the marble deposits are? 4.5% grades and a switchback. GNRR GP10 #7562 backs down the switchback with three hoppers on a mine run to Imerys on this former Geor... (more)

Tom Golden photo.

“Genesee Light”
In the process of doubling a heavy train up the steep grade of the former WM mainline on Catoctin Mountain, MMID's UBHF power coasts downgrade at the east end of the ... (more)

Passing Shenandoah Junction and MOW equipment, CSX train Q349 heads west.

Westbound crude oil loads top out the Continental Divide at Blossburg, as they pass a 4 pack of SD70ACe helpers waiting to go back to Helena

A hotshot intermodal is seen passing over the 544-foot long bridge across Canyon Diablo, East of Flagstaff, Arizona. The access road to get here is not for the faint of heart, but the reward is wo... (more)

BC Rail C44-9WL 4643 leads K661 by the North End of Emerson, Georgia on CSX's W&A Subdivision.

Nebraska's Mountain Crawford Hill With a ruling grade of 1.72%, when compensated, Crawford Hill is the steepest eastbound grade any coal train will encounter leaving the Powder River coal f... (more)

OmniTRAX 3123 (SD40M-2) runs long hood forward as it drops off a freight into the BNSF North Yard in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Burlington Northern EMD GP38-2 No. 2353 leads a southbound BNSF freight through Tunnel 2 in rugged Wind River Canyon just south of Dornick on October 13, 1997.

CSX loaded grain train G139 works up the grade from the Etowah River