A brass band greets the last run of the Chicago South Shore & South Bend’s old interurban cars into Chicago’s Randolph Street Station on September 25, 1983. The six-car special train is led by... (more)

It’s rainy and cold in the high desert of Arizona as the third run of the day of Freeport McMoRan brings 34 cars down the ramp below Corral Road grade crossing between Morenci and Clifton on Oct... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2 No. 7042 leads an eastbound BNSF priority freight through the mile 37.7 semaphores at Belknap, Montana, on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision on September 10, ... (more)

Following the Missouri River into Clarkston, Montana, is an eastbound BNSF loaded coal train on October 2, 2022. Several days earlier this coal train was westbound on Montana Rail Link headed for ... (more)

Canadian Pacific F9B No. 1900 is providing more power to a passenger train at Banff, Alberta, on October 1, 2010. The F9B looks very similar to a F7B, but unlike the earlier model, No. 1900 has th... (more)

A pair of Southern Pacific GE AC4400CWs lead an eastbound Union Pacific coal train downgrade and across a wood trestle over Boulder Creek out of Tolland, Colorado. You wouldn’t know it from the ... (more)

Burlington Northern coal trains meet at Cairo, Nebraska, on the railroad’s busy conduit for coal tonnage, the Ravenna Subdivision, on the afternoon of July 19, 1985. Cairo is a small town locate... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific coal load led by GE AC4400CW No. 7086 is in the siding at Rocky, Colorado, while above, UP’s West local traverses Rocky Spur on January 27, 1998. Power for the local i... (more)

The double-headed Union Pacific passenger train to the 150th anniversary of the Golden Spike in Ogden, Utah, led by 4-8-8-4 Big Boy No. 4014, crosses over the old highway bridge at Ragan between L... (more)

A Montana Rail Link ballast train needing to make a pick up on the adjoining yard track waits for MRL’s 844 local to finish some switching and get in the clear at Logan, Montana, on the morning ... (more)

Led by a pair of GE C44-9Ws, a westbound BNSF oil train lays down its reflection in Frog Pond west of Trout Creek, Montana, on the stormy-looking afternoon of October 13, 2017.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe EMD FP45 No. 90 rests at the Corwith Yard engine facility near Chicago, Illinois, on September 1, 1991. These EMD cowl locomotives were built at the request of Santa Fe... (more)

A trio of new EMD SD70MAC locomotives are doing what they were built for—hauling coal—grinding upgrade as they approach the top of Crawford Hill at Belmont, Nebraska, on July 9, 1994.

The Rio Grande Ski Train is threading Tunnel 3 and 4 as it climbs the Colorado’s front range just west of Plainview, Colorado, on January 18, 1998. On the rear are business cars “Kansas”, �... (more)

Union Pacific’s A-B-A set of E units power a passenger special operated for the UP Historical Society on July 10, 2009. The train, dubbed the “City of Yoder,” ran from Cheyenne to South Morr... (more)