An eastbound BNSF coal empty follows the placid backwaters of the Clark Fork between Heron and Noxon, Montana, on July 3, 2022.

It’s a stark winter day in central Illinois as a westbound Santa Fe intermodal train, powered by five EMD GP60Ms, rolls west of Chillicothe on the short climb over Edelstein Hill on February 16,... (more)

Santa Fe EMD SD39 No. 1567 shines in the afternoon sun on the afternoon of September 1, 1991, at the railroad’s locomotive facility at Corwith Yard near Chicago, Illinois. Similar looking to the... (more)

Nevada Northern Railway 2-8-0 No. 93 with an ore train steams by NNRY Alco RS3 No. 109 and a short freight train sitting in the siding at Lavon, Nevada, on February 7, 2004.

On the morning of June 23, 2018, five trains can be seen from the top of Logan Hill looking south. On Track 1 is a southbound BNSF coal load. Coming up alongside on Track 2 is a Union Pacific coal... (more)

A pair of Conrail SD50s, Nos. 6729 and 6764, have run through to Burlington Northern’s Clyde Yard at Cicero, Illinois, operating on the ELBN freight from CR’s Elkhart Yard in Indiana on Februa... (more)

At 12:07 p.m. on March 31, 1997, an eastbound Union Pacific freight approaches Rochelle, Illinois, led by an out of the ordinary EMD locomotive consist. Home-road C&NW SD40-2 No. 6817 is followed ... (more)

A trio of new Southern Pacific GE C44-9Ws is almost finished climbing Byron Hill with a heavy taconite ore train as it meets a northbound Wisconsin Central freight in the siding at Byron, Wisconsi... (more)

Autumn on the Hi Line
On October 8, 2018, a westbound BNSF grain train exits Tunnel 4 and curves along the Middle Fork of the Flathead River just east of West Glacier (Belton), Montana.

At 6:35 p.m. on April 27, 1991, a westbound Soo Line train departs Savanna, Illinois, led by candy apple red Soo EMD SD60 No. 6055.

Burlington Northern EMD SW1500 No. 59 rolls through West Bottoms in Kansas City, Missouri, on the morning of September 16, 1990. Both SW1000 and SW1500 switchers have higher frames/walkways and ha... (more)

With an arduous crossing of the Continental Divide now behind it, Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr cruises west out of Granby, Colorado, on November 15, 2021.

Electro-Motive Division built a total of 2,222 GP38-2s for 59 railroads in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, making the model a best seller. Several hundred of them were customized to railroad specific... (more)

A westbound BNSF unit coal train climbs 1.8 percent grade of Montana Rail Link’s main line over Bozeman Pass after departing Livingston, Montana, on June 23, 2020.

Hot 991
Led by a trio of new GE B40-8Ws, Santa Fe’s hot 991 train hurries toward Chicago approaching Streator, Illinois, on May 2, 1992.