An hour late out of Reno, Amtrak No. 5 the westbound California Zephyr, climbs uphill to the next stop in Truckee. From there the real work begins to gain the summit of the hill at Norden.

Leaving Ruby Canyon behind, UP 8758 follows the Colorado river for one last time at Westwater, UT. The tracks will soon head upgrade onto the high desert while the River will head through Westwate... (more)

Eastbound Union Pacific No. 7713 leads a Military train from Camp Roberts in Central California. Sliding downhill from Santa Susana Pass the train heads to Los Angeles and points East.

MILW 22 leads an eastbound freight through ranch lands west of Ellensburg near Thorp, WA in the upper Yakima River valley. The train is head to Othello, WA and points east having originated in Tac... (more)

The weekly train from Lakeview to Alturas passes Chimney Rock on a summer morning. Clearly, when the Nevada-California-Oregon narrow gauge came through, someone had to move.

Traversing scenic Abo Canyon, a westbound Santa Fe freight crosses Bridge 873.8 over Abo Arroyo east of Sais, New Mexico, on the afternoon of June 2, 1995. New EMD SD75M No. 201 leads three more o... (more)

As Bear Grylls would say, "water follows the path of least resistance". It is for this reason railroad tracks often follow rivers through the mountains. Rivers carve out a narrow path through the ... (more)

A young boy watches Union Pacific's 'Potash Local' roar up the Cane Creek Branch near Arches National Park

Westbound passenger train for Chama snakes through Windy Point on a beautiful fall afternoon.

Time-travelers meet at The Pass. Passing through the yard at Cumbres Pass, the time-travelers aboard the Cumbres & Toltec's Train 216 experience one of the many flash-backs they'll have thi... (more)

Eight is enough GE power to keep this Z train moving west at Adrian, WA. The train is en route to Seattle from Chicago, and will arrive in Wenatchee, WA for a crew change in about 90 minutes or so... (more)

No visit to Marias Pass is complete without shooting a westbound on the curve just west of Tunnel 4. Here an intermodal swings along the Middle Fork of the Flathead River on its way to its next c... (more)

When the Union Pacific finally retired the D&RGW SD40T-2 #5371 in late February 2008 it was the end of an era for Rio Grande fans. There was a period of more or less mixed motive power assignments... (more)

Union Pacific, 1669, leads the Wendover local, through the west Salt Lake desert.

Shortly before sunrise the 489 fills the morning air with smoke as it climbs toward Cumbres. This was part of a two day photo op sponsored by the Friends of the C&TS.