The dark, cavernous hall of Wisconsin Central’s car shop at Shops Yard in North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on a quiet Saturday of October 8, 1994. Looks like a boxcar and a bulkhead flat are among ... (more)

A freshly-painted Wisconsin Central boxcar gets finishing touches inside the car shop at the railroad’s Shop Yard complex at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on October 8, 1994. Two painters on sca... (more)

With a new crew aboard, an eastbound Burlington Northern freight is about to depart Whitefish, Montana, amid a light snowfall on March 2, 1989.

Chicago & North Western’s PRITA, a Proviso to Itasca Yard in Superior freight, curves through North Lake, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of March 30, 1991.

The southern throat trackage of Chicago Union Station can get busy as two long-distance Amtrak trains meet, and an inbound Metra commuter train is about to disappear into the dark depths of the st... (more)

Into the storm
With four cars for Helena Yard, Montana Rail Link’s Helena local climbs Winston Hill past milepost 215 and toward some stormy weather east of Winston Montana, on the af... (more)

A pair of Milwaukee Road EMD SD10s power a train through La Grange Park, Illinois, as it approaches the Harding Avenue grade crossing while working southward on the Indiana Harbor Belt/B&OCT main ... (more)

It’s 10:05 p.m. as an eastbound BNSF unit train slinks its way through Lombard Canyon and past illuminated Toston Dam between Toston and Lombard, Montana. Even at this late hour, the pretty suns... (more)

Amtrak’s Chicago, Illinois, locomotive facility hosts Grand Trunk Western EMD GP40-2 No. 6413 amongst the usual plethora of Amtrak EMD F40PH locomotives on September 1, 1991.

With stormy looking clouds to the west, a southbound BNSF freight makes its way through Himes Canyon just north of Himes, Wyoming, on BNSF’s Casper Subdivision at 5:29 a.m. on the morning of Jun... (more)

With a hot rail on the adjoining main line, a UP construction crew working on a new concrete bridge over Southwest Branch of Big Papillion, stands by in the clear of the intermodal train.

Union Pacific GE 7945 leads a westbound manifest freight past the old siding switch for West Kennard, Nebraska, on August, 15, 2012. A UP construction crew works on the new bridge over Southwest B... (more)

Union Pacific EMD SD70ACe No. 8834 and EMD SD70M No. 4261 lead a loaded coal train through Converse Junction and begin the climb of Logan Hill in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin on June 21, 2019.

While being serviced on the afternoon of August 30, 2021, after taking a train to Cascade and back, Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad’s K-28 2-8-2 No. 473 rotates on the turntable at Dur... (more)

Powered by five Cascade green locomotives, Burlington Northern train 161 begins its trip west as it departs Cicero passing the tower on the far west end of Clyde Yard approaching LaVergne, Illinoi... (more)