BLE 906 leads a loaded ore train out of Fairlane down the Missabe Sub.

TPW westbound windmill train, passing west of Lake Cicott, IN, is headed to the Wolcott, IN yard during the evening of 04/25/12. At this point in time the NS was interchanging the windmill nacelle... (more)

On November 25, 1994, an empty Wisconsin Central unit coal/taconite ore train, operated in conjunction with Southern Pacific, curves over a trestle between Amherst Junction and Custer, and will so... (more)

PALMER LAKE CO — Rio Grande SD40T-2 5398 leads a coal train in this undated photo. The slide is unlabeled and the Kodalux slide mount doesn't contain any indication of month-year of development.... (more)

As afternoon storms send light rain to the ground, hard-working locomotives of a Rio Grande coal train grinding its way up the two percent grade of Winter Park hill throws exhaust and sand into th... (more)

The visual cues in the photograph provide no clue that this is a Union Pacific train. In January 1997, a flood detour heads south on the Modoc Line, beginning the climb out of the Madeline Plains.... (more)

A Southern Pacific tunnel motor rests in the late afternoon sun at Mojave.

Aside from the loaded ballast cars on the head end, this westbound train on the Modoc Line is virtually all empty boxcars and flatcars returning to Oregon for another load of forest products. This... (more)

W&LE train 430 with former DRGW SD40T-2 5413 leading rolls east through Upper Sandusky, Ohio, among the snow and fall foliage of Nov. 14, 2021. The 430 is an as-needed transfer from the Indiana & ... (more)

A westbound SP merchandise freight passes under the MO 994.0 cantilever signal at Winot, AZ near sunset. Photographer: Emery Gulash. John E. Troxler collection. Kodachrome slide.

SP 8307 eases a Westbound manifest around the horseshoe curve at Caliente.

In the snow-covered desert of Utah, Union Pacific’s LJP45 dirt train approaches the ECDC landfill at East Carbon on February 5, 2004. Three Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 Tunnel Motors, Nos. 5349, 5371 ... (more)

It almost seems as though this Ringneck & Western crew should receive some hazard pay for running over these rails. They're currently tip toeing over old Milwaukee Road track that is typically out... (more)

With Union Pacific LJP44 “dirt train” local from Salt Lake City late this particular morning, still crossing the grade over Soldier Summit, the LJP45 local out of Helper had some time to kill ... (more)

SP 8307 leads a westbound manifest at Bealville.