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)

Union Pacific EMD E8A No. 928 sits forlornly on one of the turntable tracks at the roundhouse in Cheyenne, Wyoming on May 3, 2007. This locomotive was once on display at the Western Heritage Museu... (more)

Canadian Pacific’s northbound wayfreight, powered by a trio of EMD SD40-2s, is switching the paper plant at Skookumchuck, British Columbia, on CP’s Windermere Subdivision on July 15, 2011.

In lake-effect snow from frigid temperatures blowing over Lake Michigan, a westbound Conrail stack train also creates its own snowstorm as it rolls through New Carlisle, Indiana, on January 15, 19... (more)

A northbound BNSF coal empty scurries over the top of Logan Hill after the passing of a brief rainstorm in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin on June 24, 2022.

Dusk settles over Colorado’s Denver Union Station on March 13, 2020, and over on Track 5, the Winter Park Express ski train has recently arrived and has already unloaded its passengers and gear.... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD E9A No. 9922 on a BN/Metra commuter train rests for the weekend at Hill Yard in Aurora, Illinois, on the afternoon of March 15, 1992. Twenty-five former Burlington E8A and ... (more)

An eastbound Burlington Northern intermodal train rolls through the St. Croix interlocking with Milwaukee Road near Hastings, Minnesota, on November 21, 1987. BN EMD SD40-2 No. 7099, built in Nove... (more)