On the afternoon of July 7, 2021, Montana Rail Link’s Helena local heads upgrade on Winston Hill at milepost 215 east of Winston, Montana, on MRL’s Second Subdivision main line.

Wisconsin Central train 47 out of Milwaukee approaches Springdale Road grade crossing near Duplainville, Wisconsin, on a sunny June 6, 1991, in a Kodachrome telesmash wedgie of a trio of fairly fr... (more)

A westbound BNSF grain train grinds upgrade out of Austin and passes an old abandoned homestead while climbing Montana’s Mullan Pass on the afternoon of July 5, 2021.

Bright red Central California Traction EMD SW1500 No. 1503 gets hand-washed at Stockton, California, on March 10, 2006.

On August 2, 1996, Southern Pacific’s westbound KCOAF (Kansas City to Oakland Forwarder) has just arrived at Colorado’s scenic Tennessee Pass. Led by EMD SD40M-2 No. 8650 (still looking like a... (more)

A bay-window waycar (caboose) trails a southbound Chicago & North Western freight as it crosses the lengthy Nemadji River Bridge at Boylston, Wisconsin, on October 19, 1985. This train is operatin... (more)

A Chicago & North Western freight is southbound on the Burlington Northern’s former Great Northern bridge over the Nemadji River just south of Boylston, Wisconsin, on October 19, 1985. A trio of... (more)

Wisconsin Central train 47 approaches Sussex, Wisconsin, as it passes a field of Tiger Lilies growing along the tracks near milepost 105 on July 6, 1991. Leading the train is former Texas & Pacifi... (more)

Emerging from a shadowing canyon, an empty Utah Railway coal train heads downgrade on the eastern slope of Soldier Summit at Kyune, Utah, on the afternoon of May 9, 2006. Four of Utah Railway’s ... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern coal empty is tucked in Sully Springs siding and a crewman is on the ground to make a visual inspection as an eastbound coal train approaches on the main line on th... (more)

A westbound run of the Rocky Mountaineer makes its way through the valley made by the Colorado River at Yarmony, Colorado, on November 14, 2021. The train has just passed over the east switch of Y... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s Laurel to Missoula road freight (LM) assaults the grade up Bozeman Pass with eight SD45s and SD45-2s just west of Livingston, Montana, on September 23, 2002. A set of five of... (more)

On the afternoon of October 6, 2018, an eastbound BNSF manifest freight rolls across the long bridge linking Algoma with Sandpoint, Idaho, on the railroad’s Pend Oreille Subdivision.

Union Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 6433 has its third axle/traction motor assembly replaced, as it slowly is lowered in the drop pit and carefully watched by a machinist and an electrician. The locomot... (more)

A couple of GE locomotives are in for work over the drop pit in the Diesel House at Union Pacific’s Burnham Shops in Denver, Colorado, on December 16, 2015. UP GE AC4400CW No. 6344 is having its... (more)