Montana Rail Link’s 840 local departs Trident, Montana, on September 21, 2008. In the background on the other side of the Missouri River is the empty, abandoned grade of Milwaukee Road’s Pacif... (more)

A pair of BNSF EMD SD70MACs lead a BNSF coal train westbound over the Clark Fork between Thompson Falls and Belknap, Montana, on September 11, 2010.

Wisconsin Central train 45 heads north (westbound) through Hubertus, Wisconsin, on June 11, 1996, powered by a pair of WC’s F45s and a new Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW.

Led by a quartet of GE C44-9Ws, Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s Denver to Stockton manifest freight climbs out of Rocky, Colorado, on April 23, 2002. In the background sits an eastbound Union Pac... (more)

Tying up
The conductor does some last minute paperwork and the engineer shuts down the power as Watco’s Palouse River & Coulee City freight ties up at Mockonema, Washington, on Septem... (more)

Snow in Colorado is spring isn’t unusual, and another cloaked the Front Range on April 19, 2024. The next day, BNSF’s Provo to Denver priority freight descends Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel ... (more)

Powered by a pair of leased Union Pacific EMD SD70Ms, Rocky Mountaineer’s “Rockies to the Red Rocks” Colorado and Utah excursion train follows the Colorado River moments after exiting 463-fo... (more)

My, what big radiators you have
With all of the added emission restrictions over the last couple of decades, the cooling capabilities of modern locomotives demand larger radiators, culm... (more)

Amtrak’s 50th anniversary locomotive painted in Heritage I colors, GE P42DC, No. 161, leads the eastbound California Zephyr into the horseshoe curve at Coal Creek Canyon between Plainview and Ei... (more)

While Bighorn Divide & Wyoming Railroad EMD GP38-2 No. 2001 and SW1500 No. 1001 switch the yard at Bonneville, Wyoming, on June 22, 2016, a southbound BNSF freight passes the South Siding Switch o... (more)

Led by Iowa, Chicago & Eastern EMD SD40-2 No. 6432, a Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern freight is westbound at Dakota Junction, Nebraska, on July 14, 2008.

Montana Rail Link SD45 No. 346 has some work done in the running repair shop at the railroad’s Livingston Shop on May 7, 2012. MRL 346 was built by EMD in May 1970 as a high-nose Norfolk & Weste... (more)

An eastbound Canadian National coal empty rolls through Robertson’s Curve leaving Swan Landing, Alberta, on the afternoon of July 13, 2013.

An eastbound BNSF freight hauls some freshly-rebuilt Union Pacific autoracks eastbound between Hope and Clark Fork, Idaho, on February 13, 2024. The newly-painted cars won’t stay like this long ... (more)

A westbound Norfolk Southern coal train, led by Altoona-rebuild “admiral cab” EMD SD60E No. 6943, curves out of Duffield, Virginia, on May 12, 2014.