BC Rail's Whistler to Vancouver route.
A high speed passenger train crosses over a slow moving freight near Barcelona Spain.
The Union Pacific main line through Wyoming, the original trans-continental railroad route.
The historic Cheyenne depot. It is used as a museum, but still receives the occasional passenger excursion, and was a regular stop for Amtrak until the line was cut in 1997.
A Union Pacific passenger train crossing the Dale Creek bridge outside of Laramie, Wyoming, sometime between 1877-1901. When built, the bridge was made of wood and was the largest railroad bridge in the world. Originally measuring 135 feet tall and 650 long, the bridge was built to cross a small creek that you could easily step over. The first wooden tressle was built in three weeks and trains had to cross at 2 miles an hour, less they be blown off by the strong Wyoming winds. The metal tressel was constructed in the 1870s, and it remained until 1901, when the railroad was rerouted through tunnels just to the south. You can still see and hear the trains from the site of the bridge. It was torn down in 1901, but the approaches, abutments, and foundations remain.
