Late in the day of July 7, 2021, an eastbound BNSF coal empty cruises downhill past milepost 214 on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision main line over Winston Hill, Montana.

Early Wisconsin Central locomotive consists were certainly colorful and you never really knew what to expect. On a rainy and damp November 7, 1987, WC train 41 rolls smartly through Silver Lake, W... (more)

Passing an old Montana homestead and ranch, Montana Rail Link GP35 Nos. 403 and 402 with five covered hoppers, drops down the 2.2 percent mountain grade on the Harrison branch north of Harrison on... (more)

Loaded with “Pink Lady” quartz ballast from the company-owned Rock Springs quarry, a Chicago & North Western ballast train departs Janesville, Wisconsin, on the morning of July 8, 1995. The ea... (more)

A group of Union Pacific EMD and GE locomotives get repairs and inspections done inside the Diesel House at UP’s Burnham Shops in Denver, Colorado, on December 21, 2015. Unfortunately, UP closed... (more)

Following the Missouri River, a westbound BNSF coal train passes Toston Dam in Lombard Canyon east of Toston, Montana, on June 30, 2017.

An eastbound BNSF manifest freight crosses Bridge 62 at Tuscor, Montana, on the morning of July 4, 2021. A beaver lodge has recently been constructed at this location where Swamp Creek empties int... (more)

Completed in 1909, Shields River Valley Railway built a 22-mile line north from a connection on the Northern Pacific at Mission, Montana, to serve the agricultural communities of Grannis, Chadborn... (more)

Heavy with loaded vehicles up front, a Burlington Northern freight curves toward the Wisconsin State Highway 16 overpass after departing the crew change point of La Crosse, Wisconsin, in September... (more)

Amtrak train 6, the eastbound California Zephyr, crosses over McDonald Creek at the base of imposing Dodge’s Bluff just east of Utaline, Colorado, in impressive Ruby Canyon on June 23, 2021. Unu... (more)

Canadian Pacific’s wayfreight between Cranbrook and Golden heads north through Brisco, British Columbia, on the afternoon of July 17, 2011. Two SD40-2s bracket a SD40-2F “red barn” as power ... (more)

Approaching Tunnel 2 on the BNSF’s Casper Subdivision, a northbound BNSF freight follows the Wind River south of Dornick in Wyoming’s rugged Wind River Canyon on June 20, 2017.

A large group of older Union Pacific EMD and GE six-axle locomotives sit stored at the railroad’s Burnham Shops facility in Denver, Colorado, on December 21, 2015.

Union Pacific EMD SD40N No. 1826 has some repair work done on the just above the big HTC truck in the Diesel Shop at the railroad’s Burnham Shops in Denver, Colorado, on December 17, 2015.

BNSF’s east local out of Greybull, Wyoming, crawls along the rocky cliffs in scenic Wind River Canyon just south of the siding of Minnesela on BNSF’s Casper Subdivision on June 28, 2021. Toda... (more)