As fast as you can sweep or dig them out, the switches at Union Pacific’s North Yard fuel track will have filled back in during the next move. This storm dumped nearly a foot of snow in Denver, ... (more)

Canadian National train 112, powered by lone CN EMD SD70M-2 No. 8878, curves out of Swan Landing near Brule, Alberta, on the afternoon of July 18, 2013.

Passing the towering grain elevators at Meridan, Illinois, is an eastbound Burlington Northern intermodal train on May 10, 1992. Apparently, the engineer aboard EMD SD40-2 No. 7234 has tied a red ... (more)

Repairs are being made to Santa Fe covered hopper No. 315510 in the busy Progress Rail Services car shop at Amarillo, Texas, on June 15, 2012.

Union Pacific MRONY, a Roper Yard in Salt Lake City to North Yard in Denver manifest freight, rolls through Eisele (formerly Clay), Colorado on June 2, 2013. In the background are the Flat Iron ro... (more)

Locomotives still have to be serviced, even when the weather is bad. A worker on the fuel tracks at Union Pacific locomotive facility at North Yard in Denver, Colorado, heads out into the falling ... (more)

During a wet spring snowstorm, Union Pacific power rests at the locomotive facility at North Yard in Denver, Colorado, on April 15, 2013.

Passing by the massive, vertical rock walls in Sheep Canyon is BNSF’s Cowley turn out of Greybull, Wyoming, on the morning of June 22, 2017. The northbound local is following the Bighorn River t... (more)

On June 9, 2013, ample springtime rainfall has brought out wildflowers among green grasses on Colorado’s front range mountains, as an eastbound Union Pacific coal load slowly drops downgrade and... (more)

On April 16, 1994, a westbound Santa Fe vehicle train zips through Leeds, Illinois. AT&SF No. 2751 was built by EMD in March 1963 and has put on a few miles between Chicago and California—but it... (more)

St. Maries River Railroad EMD SW1200 No. 501 has just delivered three empty centerbeam cars to Stimson Lumber in Milltown, Idaho, and is now returning to St. Maries yard on September 27, 2021. It ... (more)

A westbound Canadian National potash train crawls along the Thompson River traversing spectacular White Canyon between Morris and Lasha, British Columbia, on September 27, 2015. Rockslides through... (more)

An eastbound CSX freight rolls through busy Dolton Junction at Dolton, Illinois, on March 19, 1988. The train is powered by a Baltimore & Ohio EMD GP40-2 that has recently renumbered into the CSX ... (more)

On a sunny but cold afternoon of February 5, 2004, Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s Denver to Stockton manifest freight climbs up the eastern grade of Union Pacific’s former Rio Grande crossing ... (more)

It’s dawn at Union Station at Denver, Colorado, on February 5, 2018. On Track 6 to the left is a RTD B Line commuter train from Westminster. On Track 5 is Amtrak’s Winter Park Express, waiting... (more)