Carrying a load of three Boeing 737 fuselages mounted on flat cars, along with three additional flat cars used as spacers for the oversize loads, is a westbound BNSF J train hurrying through Trout... (more)

At Trout Creek, Montana, thick ice is cracking and heaving with fluctuating water levels at the frozen inlet of Trout Creek where it flows into the Clark Fork. Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivi... (more)

In my mind, there’s hardly anything better than a few beers around a campfire on a crisp, snowy Montana evening along the Clark Fork and Montana Rail Link’s busy Fourth Subdivision. Friends Da... (more)

Another wintery day in Montana is coming to a close as layers of fog roll through Montana’s Clark Fork River Valley. As the blue hour approaches, a BNSF grain train rumbles westbound out of Trou... (more)

Widening the throttle out of Rochelle: A pair of Burlington Northern EMD SD9s intensify their chant as they pull a welded rail train over the Union pacific (former Chicago & North Western) diamond... (more)

Chicago & Illinois Midland EMD SD18 No. 60 sits in repose for the night in September 1984 at the railroad’s locomotive shop in Springfield, Illinois. C&IM owned two low nose SD18s, Nos. 60 and 6... (more)

Bare metal
Wisconsin Central EMD SD45 No. 6554 is sandblasted down to bare metal before being painted in WC’s classy maroon and gold paint scheme at Shops Yard in North Fond du Lac, Wi... (more)

A westbound BNSF manifest freight arrives in the siding at Rocky, Colorado, to meet Amtrak and a Union Pacific freight on the afternoon of June 28, 2014. Lining the siding is materials and equipme... (more)

Rolling west on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision is a BNSF unit oil train at Trout Creek, Montana, on February 5, 2023.

Wheels waiting to roll
New wheels sit in the late afternoon sun, carefully stored for future intermodal car axle replacement inside Union Pacific’s Joliet Intermodal Terminal at Jolie... (more)

A westbound Canadian Pacific Office Car Special curves along the Thompson River approaching Martel, British Columbia, on September, 2, 2007.

A westbound Union Pacific coal empty works upgrade through Big 10 Curve into Eisele (Clay), Colorado, on June 2, 2013. Down below, the rear DPU unit is about to enter the famous curve.

The blue hour has descended upon a frigid, snow-covered scene as Wisconsin Central train 47, powered by a pair of CSX EMD’s and a WC EMD SD45, raises powdery snow departing Duplainville, Wiscons... (more)

Powered by a trio of Canadian Pacific EMD SD40-2s in CP Rail Action red, CP’s wayfreight between Cranbrook and Golden arrives at the yard at Golden, British Columbia, on October 3, 2010.

Three GE B40-8Ws muscle a long Santa Fe 199 train out of Chillicothe, Illinois, and up Edelstein Hill at Houlihan’s Curve at 5:50 p.m. on August 31, 1991.