Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western’s “Corn Train” rumbles through through a curve approaching the town of Wilton, North Dakota, on the railroad’s Missouri Valley Subdivision on August 29, 2... (more)

A Montana Rail Link “Jimbo” work train works its way downgrade out of Weed, Montana, on June 30, 2021. Leading the way east is former MRL caboose, now shoving platform No. 1007.

Lone BNSF GE ES44C4 No. 8036 leads an eastbound grain empty through Lombard Canyon east of Toston, Montana, on the morning of July 9, 2022.

Amtrak EMD SW8 No 749 switches some Heritage Fleet passenger cars on the tracks adjoining the railroad’s Chicago, Illinois, locomotive facility in a view from the 18th Street overpass on Februar... (more)

A quartet of Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACe being used as a manned helper for trains climbing Mullan Pass out of Helena, Montana, heads back to town at Austin after helping a train up the pass on t... (more)

An eastbound Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range taconite train rumbles through Brimson, Minnesota, on the trip to the ore dock at Two Harbors on September 30, 1989.

Fast moving clouds part just long enough to let the sun illuminate a northbound BNSF coal empty cruising over Logan Hill in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin on June 25, 2022.

A Montana Rail Link helper set arrives at Helena Yard on July 1, 2020. Quite a few blue MRL locomotives are present—three helper sets, the Helena local power and MRL’s Laurel to Missoula freig... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific coal train heads downgrade through Tolland, Colorado, on the sunny morning of September 25, 2000.

On September 15, 2002, the Royal Canadian Pacific luxury passenger train rolls through a broad curve north of Aldersyde, Alberta, on the CP’s Aldersyde Subdivision between Lethbridge and Calgary... (more)

Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr traces the Colorado River through scenic Ruby Canyon between Shale and Utaline, Colorado, on the afternoon of June 23, 2021. The Sightseer Lounge would be a ... (more)

A pair of Union Pacific EMD SD70ACes lay down a nice black smoke screen as they approach the top of Wyoming’s Logan Hill with a coal empty on the afternoon of July 10, 2022.

A longer than usual station stop at Glenwood Springs, Colorado, due to track-and-time in Glenwood Canyon just ahead allows everyone a little extra time to get some fresh air and stretch your legs ... (more)

A snowmobiler offers a friendly wave as Fox River Valley Railroad’s Proviso to Green Bay (PRGBA) freight passes over a bridge at Kewaskum, Wisconsin, on January 27, 1991. The train is powered by... (more)

The dreary spring day of April 10, 1988, is brightened up by a Burlington Northern freight approaching the junction at Plum River near Savanna, Illinois. The eastbound train is powered by BN EMD G... (more)