On September 14, 2017, Union Pacific GE AC4400CW locomotives are repaired and overhauled at the South Morrill Locomotive Facility. On track 2, UP AC4400CW No. 6704 is having a new prime mover is i... (more)

EMD’s SD90MAC-H locomotives head through Leyden, Colorado, for some testing at Plainview on January 30, 1998. Leading is EMD No. 8504 that is painted in a special scheme for EMD’s 75th anniver... (more)

On February 8, 2021, on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision that stretches between Missoula and Sandpoint Junction, Idaho, a westbound BNSF grain train traverses a snowy Clark Fork Valley at ... (more)

Pend Oreille Valley’s Sandpoint turn has just finished interchanging cars with the BNSF at Sandpoint, and is now departing westbound with empties for rail-served customers on the way back to New... (more)

Coors Brewing Co. EMD SW1000 No. C997 has just finished switching cars from the Commodities Yard to the East Silos elevator located east of McIntyre Street in Golden, Colorado, on November 18, 200... (more)

On the morning of June 26, 2022, a Union Pacific coal empty climbs Logan Hill north of Bill, Wyoming. Lurking in the morning cloud shadow at the horizon are rows of wind turbines that have appeare... (more)

Waiting out the night
A Metro-North commuter train, led by EMD FL9 No. 2002 in New Haven colors, waits overnight at Danbury, Connecticut, on May 19, 1993.

Milwaukee Road’s freight to Green Bay passes the feed mill at Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, in December 1984. Bay window caboose No. 992117 carries the markers on this pleasant winter day.

Milwaukee Road’s Milwaukee to Green Bay road freight rolls northbound through Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, in December 1984. Powered by EMD SD40-2 Nos. 130 and 17, the train is about halfway into it... (more)

Southwest Portland Cement Company EMD SDP35 No. 411 is running long hood first with a train from Victorville, California, operating back to the quarry as it approaches Stoddard Wells Road on March... (more)

A bumper sticker lowered onto the northbound lane of Division Avenue at the grade crossing of Union Pacific’s Spokane Subdivision main line suggests it’s time to mellow out based on your locat... (more)

Passing milepost 10 on the Pend Oreille Subdivision at Algoma, Idaho, is an eastbound BNSF coal train off the Montana Rail Link on September 26, 2021.

A BNSF coal train climbing Montana’s Winston Hill past milepost 216 is about to meet an eastbound BNSF grain empty in the siding at Winston on the afternoon of June 25, 2019.

Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) EMD F40PH No. 171 waits out the weekend at the commuter yard at Harvard, Illinois, on April 26, 1987. Metra (short for Metropolitan Rail) was formed in 1985... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal empty descends Crawford Hill east of Crawford, Nebraska, on the morning of April 11, 1998. A short-lived mix of A.C. locomotives power the train back ... (more)