Colorado's Western Slope is home to gritty mountain railroading. Heavy trains, deep canyons and treacherous curves are common along this route. Here, a loaded coal train running 2x2x2 thunders thr... (more)

A one-car BNSF local out of Bend crosses the spectacular Crooked River Bridge near Terrabonne, Oregon, on the afternoon of September 28, 2016. Powering the diminutive train is BNSF GP38-2 No. 2093... (more)

On the joint CSX/WW mainline through downtown Winchester. The locomotives have just passed the former B&O Station and WW Headquarters on it's way to taking 28 empties back to Gore.

There’s no doubt that the highlight of the 1983 NRHS convention was the night photo session at Richmond’s famed triple crossing. Conducted by the late Jim Boyd, the scene featured a Chesapeake & O... (more)

The World speed-record lok crosses the highest trestle along Semmeringbahn. The sun rose up to the perfect height, shooting trough the morning fog. Some said that a modern train is inappropriate o... (more)

By the late 1950s the final chapter had been written for mainline steam in North America, with only a few exceptions, lines of dead steam locomotives awaited the scrapper's torch across the countr... (more)

Ex SP SD40T-2 #2006 leads an empty Trona Railway coal train, as it begins its journey to the Union Pacific interchange at Searles, CA. The days of coal trains on the Trona Railway are numbered, a... (more)

The 470 Railroad Club of Portland's annual charter train heads West passing under Route 302 at Cooks Crossing in Bartlett. The train will proceed West through Crawford Notch to Fabyan Station and ... (more)

On a stormy evening, a lengthy Union Pacific passenger special heads through Little Gore Canyon.

Cruising along the basalt cliffs above Crater Lake between Trinidad and Quincy, Washington, is an eastbound BNSF Z train on the afternoon of September 21, 2016. The train is climbing a grade out o... (more)

Union Pacific SD70ACe No. 8477 and a standard UP ES44AC bring up the rear of Xcel Energy coal empties as the train scoots west through the magnificent scenery of the high country near Hot Sulphur ... (more)

The Australia Streamliners 2016 weekend kicked off on October 1, with a colorful array of cab units representing all classes of locomotives. The B-class locomotive B61 was painted in a special sch... (more)

The Semmering railway (German: Semmeringbahn) in Austria, which starts at Gloggnitz and leads over the Semmering to Mürzzuschlag was the first mountain railway in Europe built with a standard gaug... (more)

International tourists train Trans-Siberian Express ZARENGOLD. Welcome to the Trans-Mongolian Railwa... (more)