Union Pacific 4-8-4 No. 844 heads home for UP's steam shops in Cheyenne, Wyo., as it leads UP's Bailey Yard in North Platte, Neb., on the morning of Oct. 31.

A pair of Electro-Motive Progress Rail EMD SD70ACe Tier 4 demonstrators lead a Parkersburg-bound CSX Q317 through Dawson, west of Clarksburg on the B&O Shortline subdivision.

A pair of Electro-Motive Progress Rail EMD SD70ACe Tier 4 demonstrators hustle CSX Q317 west across the former B&O in downtown Clarksburg, W.Va., under less than optimal weather conditions.

Leading the Cheat Mountain Salamander consist, Western Maryland EMD BL2 No. 82 idles at the former town site of Spruce during the DGVR's annual Great Train Race celebration. This is one of ... (more)

Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief splits a pair of intermediate semaphore signals near Las Vegas, N.M., eastbound on BNSF Railway's main line between Santa Fe, N.M., and Trinidad, Colo.

Spanning the Ohio River, three Watco SD40-2MS lead KN 381 across the Point Pleasant bridge and into the state of Ohio from West Virginia. This is the first Kanawha River-operated 381 to run north.... (more)

Welcome to West Virginia, Watco! After more than 200 days of re-routing freight traffic via Norfolk Southerns in southern West Virginia, Watco's new Kanawha River Railroad returned freight ... (more)

A pair of BNSF locomotives assist a loaded coal train south on the railroad's Joint Line subdivision at Palmer Lake. While the tallest mountains are still snow covered, summer is in full bloom in ... (more)

Operating from Dickinson Yard to Mullens, the last NS-operated chemical train rolls into a tunnel just north of Mullens as it traces the Virginian main toward Elmore Yard. Once the train arrives i... (more)

Rolling through downtown Hurricane, CSX Q135 heads west into the center of a severe thunderstorm. Featuring a storm top of more than 22,000 feet above the surface, an impressive lightning show tur... (more)

Western Maryland Scenic 2-8-0 No. 734 eases out of the Cumberland, Md., train station on its run to Frostburg with the Polar Express in tow. This locomotive is now down for a major overhaul, likel... (more)

Amid the hustle and bustle of life in New York City, day transitions to dark on this June evening as a Queens bound 7-local train arrives at 40th Street station in Queens. The city's Empire State ... (more)

Piercing through a deteriorating cloud deck and resting on the shoulders of the western Rockies, a June sun illuminates prairie lands of rural Colorado just outside of Trinidad. Pointed toward La ... (more)

With winds howling across the high county of BNSF's Raton Subdivision, a pair of semaphore signals dating back to the early 1900s wait for the faithful passing of Amtrak's Southwest Chief. The eas... (more)

The calm after the storm... An RTD A-Line train maintains a track speed of 70+ MPH on its way to the Denver International Airport from Denver's Union Station. In the background, thunderstor... (more)