A westbound UP coal load breaks into sunlight as empties recede and another load appears on the far hill.

One of the most popular passenger paint schemes, Northern Pacific's "North Coast Limited" Train 25 negotiates Homestake Pass in Montana, westbound on April 10, 1970. Butte will be the next stop, ... (more)

After meeting a westbound, a Q train accelerates over the hump at the east end of Fruitland in a cloud of exhaust.

As an SP engineer inspects and makes ready his helper power in the spur at Bena, a Santa Fe eastbound comes down the hill from Sandcut behind his locomotives in the fading light.

Westbound Milwaukee Road freight train climbing the grade up from the Columbia River at Doris, Washington, on July 14, 1979. Photograph by John F. Bjorklund and courtesy of the more)

Just after sunrise, four big SP U-boats lead a hot eastbound pig train at tunnel 2.

Roberto Verascal fills the front sand reservoir of SP AC No. 204 at Cape Canaveral.

Twenty-minute exposure captures east- and westbound trains on the Loop under moonlight. Kodachrome 25 film.

The engineer on the rear helper of a Santa Fe 928 train watches his gauges and speedometer as his unit exits tunnel 2.

The C&O Cantilever stands guard for another night in Hilldale, under a swirling Summer sky.

Six Alco RSD-15 "Alligators" lead Santa Fe's unit coal train from York Canyon, N.M. to Kaiser Steel Corp. at Fontana, Calif. around ATSF's horseshoe curves at Blanchard, N.M. on Sept. 15, 1968. ... (more)

Under shrouded skies, an SP eastbound roars past the signal bridge at Sandcut.

Early on the morning of November 29, 1968, two freight trains collided head on just south of Hale Center, Texas, on the Plainview District. As a result, the 213L broke completely in half just behi... (more)

The EMD helper of a heavy SP eastbound exits tunnel 9 just as its head around comes around the top of the Loop.

Santa Fe FTA 180L leads a Clovis-bound freight west of Littlefield, Texas, on the First District of the Slaton Division. This is the "Texas main line," which connects Galveston, Houston, Brownwood... (more)