Chicago & Northern Western’s freight from Janesville is eastbound at Clinton, Wisconsin, passing the abandoned 1912 depot on the morning of August 12, 1995. This station at Clinton Junction stoo... (more)

An eastbound BNSF coal empty passes over a small bridge negotiating the coulees between Connell and Hatton, Washington, on September 28, 2021.

An all-Cascade green Burlington Northern grain train arrives at Elliston, Montana, at the end of the day on August 26, 1993. It has finished the climb over Mullan Pass and one trip through Mullan ... (more)

A freshly-painted Santa Fe EMD GP20 sits at the railroad’s locomotive facility at Corwith Yard in Chicago, Illinois, on November 22, 1986.

A westbound (northbound) BNSF coal train crawls along the twisting bank of the North Platte River through Wendover Canyon, Wyoming, on June 23, 2022.

In a mountain valley mostly cloaked in cloud shadows, an eastbound Union Pacific coal load heads downgrade through Tolland, Colorado, on the morning of September 23, 1999.

On the afternoon of July 4, 2022, a westbound BNSF coal train rumbles over the bridge spanning Swamp Creek at Tuscor, Montana, on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision.

Canadian Pacific EMD SD9043MAC No. 9141 rests in the yard at Field, British Columbia, on the afternoon of September 16, 2002.

A trio of Chicago & North Western coal trains are led by new C&NW EMD SD60s at the railroad’s remote yard at Bill, Wyoming, on July 4, 1989.

Amtrak’s eastbound Southwest Chief zips through Ancona, Illinois, on the afternoon of June 26, 1993—passing fields of corn that definitely will be beyond “knee high by Fourth of July.” Pow... (more)

Missouri Pacific EMD GP50 No. 3521, now painted in Union Pacific colors, rests at the Yard Center locomotive facility at Dolton, Illinois, on August 10, 1986.

Rolling along the Missouri River, an eastbound Southern Pacific transfer freight exits the West Bottoms area of Kansas City, Missouri, on the morning of September 16, 1990.

After the passing of a brief rainstorm, a northbound BNSF coal empty cruises over the top of Logan Hill under a nice-looking rainbow in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin on June 24, 2022.

Rio Grande EMD GP60 No. 3155 leads Ansco’s Rio Grande Ski Train around the wye at Tabernash, Colorado, on March 22, 1997.

Spiffy Amtrak EMD SW1 No. 736 switches a cut of Amfleet and Heritage passenger cars out of Chicago Union Station below Harrison Street Tower in May 1982. Because of the sale of air rights above th... (more)