A Southern Pacific freight approaches its Chicago destination at LaVergne in Berwyn, Illinois, on Burlington Northern’s busy Aurora to Chicago triple-track main line on May 28, 1992. A trio of R... (more)

L.S. “Jake” Jacobson, President and Chief Operating Officer of Copper Basin Railway, lines the switch at Ray Junction for CBRY’s main line to Florence, Arizona, during an inspection trip usi... (more)

On April 9, 1994, Burlington Northern train 104 heads east out of Milledgeville, Illinois behind a pair of BN EMD SD40-2s and a vintage EMD SD9. Some spring crops are already emerging on this earl... (more)

Moments after getting settled in Roomette 9 in the 531 car on Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr, which was still waiting for an on time 2:00 p.m. departure within the dark confines of Chicago... (more)

A stormy afternoon greets an eastbound BNSF freight descending Winston Hill past milepost 216 leaving Winston, Montana, on July 7, 2021.

On the morning of June 23, 2015, an eastbound BNSF grain train curves along the Missouri River through Lombard, Montana. The train is passing the abandoned remains of Milwaukee Road’s Pacific Ex... (more)

Union Pacific EMD SD70ACe No. 8852 leads an eastbound manifest freight through 75-foot Tunnel 29 just east of Pinecliffe, Colorado, on the afternoon of September 15, 2018.

Dawn is breaking and the rising sun makes a brief appearance through some cracks in the clouds on the morning of September 15, 2017. A large gathering of Union Pacific GE locomotives await servici... (more)

Through one of the windshields of Copper Basin Railway EMD GP39 No. 505 on ore train OT-1 is a view of the approaching bore of Tunnel 3 at Riverside, Arizona, on April 20, 2017.

A Union Pacific coal load slowly rolls past Eisele siding (formerly Clay), Colorado, on the afternoon of June 9, 2013. Waiting for the eastbound train down below is a UP coal empty sitting at the ... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s night gas local approaches the junction with MRL’s Fourth Subdivision main line at Paradise, Montana, on June 26, 2020.

It takes some dexterity and flexibility to install a new water pump inside Union Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 6227 inside the locomotive shop South Morrill, Nebraska, on September 15, 2017. Due of the ... (more)

A Rail King RK 320 trackmobile switches Union Pacific GE AC4400CW-CTE No. 5916 on Track 2 into the UP locomotive shop at South Morrill, Nebraska, on September 14, 2017.

With the city of Denver sprawling out in the plains below, Amtrak’s eastbound California Zephyr rounds Big 10 Curve between Eiesle (Clay) and Rocky, Colorado, while dropping downgrade on Union P... (more)

Union Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 6300 is on Track 7 inside the railroad’s South Morrill Locomotive Facility in Nebraska to change out a bad order traction motor on September 14, 2017.