Silverwood, one mile from Cajon Pass' Summit, was not a location in railroad timetables until the mid-1980s, when the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific hoped to merge and connections between the Santa... (more)

Rushing through the rain as it departs Fullerton for Los Angeles, Metrolink train 605 originated in Oceanside. Cab car 688 leads this train, with EMD F125 909 shoving on the rear. (Fullerton, Ca... (more)

Snaking through a rock cut and past snow-covered evergreens, a westbound Union Pacific coal train led by three EMD SD9043MACs approaches Crescent on a very wet April 23, 1999. Merry Christmas ever... (more)

A Pend Oreille Valley Railroad freight banks into a curve on this former Great Northern main line along the Pend Oreille River between Thama and Laclede, Idaho, on October 11, 2019.

Shrouded in steam, the Big Boy is putting on a show in the brisk cold morning air as they get ready to take the turn at Marshall.

Union Pacific’s A-B-A set of E units power an eastbound passenger train past mile 231.5 west of Lindbergh, Wyoming, on July 10, 2009. Dubbed the “City of Yoder,” the classy train ran from Ch... (more)

Metrolink train 640, the Fullerton to Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo shuttle, makes its stop in Orange, California, at sunset on December 10, 2019.

After a very early blizzard in October 1997, the eastern plains of Colorado were heavily drifted with snow. Union Pacific found that it needed to call the Cheyenne, Wyoming-based rotary snowplow N... (more)

On Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision, an eastbound BNSF vehicle train departs Quebec, Montana, after meeting two westbound trains in Quebec siding under a brilliant sky at the end of the da... (more)

With Ed Dickens at the helm, seen in view, the Big Boy passes the small town of Jefferson as they head north towards the stop in Atlanta.

Canadian National train No. 112 snakes along the shore of the Athabasca River and soon will exit Jasper National Park east of Park Gate, Alberta, on July 12, 2014. The train is approaching Brule T... (more)

Under the imposing Canadian Rockies, an eastbound Canadian National empty unit potash train approaches Geikie, Alberta, on August 5, 2016.

Pend Oreille Valley Railroad’s freight from Usk to Sandpoint crosses the bridge over the Pend Oreille River between Newport, Washington, and Priest River, Idaho, over this former Great Northern ... (more)

Clouds roll off the front range mountains of Colorado as a westbound Union Pacific coal empty heads west on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision west of Rocky on September 27, 2019.

St. Maries River Railroad EMD SW1200 No. 501 pulls a single car from Stimson Lumber in Milltown to the yard in St. Maries, Idaho, on the morning of October 7, 2019. The diminutive train is trundli... (more)