NS 4001, the second AC44C6M ever built for NS, leads NS intermodal train 22A. The train is passing Shawsville, VA.

A dash 9 brings hopper train NS 811 west through Shawsville.

Steel freight Desertu-Trasona in Artomaña.

Denver & Rio Grande 4-6-0 No. 168 has just finished climbing the east slope of Cumbres Pass as a helper on a double-headed passenger special the afternoon of August 27, 2021. The locomotive is abo... (more)

An eastbound Montana Rail Link helper set of the usual four EMD SD70ACes, drops downgrade out of Weed, Montana, and through Iron Ridge cut on MRL’s main line over Mullan Pass on June 29, 2022. T... (more)

The Ge 4/4 III # 644 of the Rhaetian Railway has a publicity paint scheme (adhesives) for the world record attempt of the longest narrow gauge passenger train. When the locomotive was presented to... (more)

Gotthard north ramp near Wassen. The "Traverso" train RABe 526 # 106/206 of the Südostbahn (SOB), en route as IR 2324 TRENO GOTTARDO of the line IR26 from Locarno over the Gotthard moun... (more)

It’s 10:05 p.m. as an eastbound BNSF unit train slinks its way through Lombard Canyon and past illuminated Toston Dam between Toston and Lombard, Montana. Even at this late hour, the pretty suns... (more)

The westbound Rocky Mountaineer: Rockies to the Red Rocks emerges from the shortest tunnel in the Tunnel District, Tunnel 29. The tunnel is only 78 feet long! The train has been following South Bo... (more)

T31 slowly crosses the bridge east of Canton with a train of interchange traffic off NS.

ATSF 3777 is seen with its wartime headlight visor attached, as it leads The Chief near Morley Colorado on April 9th 1944. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

A westbound oil train passing under the bluffs formed by the Mississippi River, which was once three miles wide near this location.

At 8:20 a.m. the morning of September 1, 2003, Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s V KCMPTL 29 blows by the mile 207.2 semaphores at Donlan, Montana. In the left seat of this former Santa Fe GP50 is... (more)

BNSF’s Sandpoint local zips through Algoma, near Sagle, Idaho, on the return trip from Sandpoint to Spokane, on February 7, 2023.

NS 264 rolls into Adrian siding for a brief pause