America’s Resourceful Railroad: Parts of Milwaukee Road woodchip cars, rebuilt from old rib-sided boxcars, still lives on today—donating their car sides long ago for an unique retaining wall b... (more)

Union Pacific’s LJP45 dirt train local rolls westward from the rotor at East carbon Development Corporation (ECDC) landfill at East Carbon, Utah, on April 7, 2005. The local is led by Rio Grande... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s 844 local trundles upgrade on the branch to Harrison, Montana, on October 4, 2022. On the rear of the train is weatherbeaten Northern Pacific observation car No. 391 that is ... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s 844 local, led by MRL GP35 Nos. 403 and 401, works upgrade past milepost 5 on the branch to Harrison, Montana, on October 4, 2022. The local has two cars for the grain elevat... (more)

After a long walk in, and a long work window, trains flooded the tracks through Wendover Canyon between Wendover and Cassa, Wyoming, on the afternoon of July 8, 1994. Finding track time between th... (more)

Ascending out of Austin
Montana Rail Link’s Laurel to Missoula manifest freight, historically and commonly called the “LM,” climbs the 2.2 percent grade up the eastern slope of Mu... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe EMD SD40-2 No. 8080 leads a train out of the crew change point of Sheridan, Wyoming, on the morning of July 1, 2002. BNSF No. 8080 is a former BN locomotive built in A... (more)

Amtrak’s California Zephyr approaches its first tunnel of the westbound journey just east of Plainview, Colorado, on the morning of October 19, 2022. A touch of color denoting autumn is provided... (more)

A trio of Rio Grande SD40T-2s pull the LJP45 dirt train local toward a mainline connection with the Green River Subdivision and a westbound trip home to Helper at Mounds, Utah, on the afternoon of... (more)

Bound for St. Louis, a southbound Chicago & North Western freight train departs the crew change point and yard at South Pekin, Illinois, on the cold winter day of January 26, 1985.

Headed to Sieler
Columbia Basin Railroad’s turn to Wheeler from Warden is on the former Milwaukee Road branch to Moses Lake, Washington, moving two covered hoppers to the Wilbur Ellis... (more)

On October 20, 2022, Rio Grande K-37 2-8-2 No. 491 and Rio Grande Southern 4-6-0 No. 20, both 3-foot narrow gauge locomotives, sit on Track 1 and 2 in the roundhouse at the Colorado Railroad Museu... (more)

Dwarfed by Montana’s Big Sky Country is an eastbound BNSF stack train descending Winston Hill on the afternoon of September 28, 2022. Powered by two pairs of locomotives, leading and as a rear D... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s Logan local curves into the truss bridge crossing the Madison River approaching Three Forks, Montana, on September 28, 2022. It is closing in on milepost 5 on MRL’s Fifth S... (more)

Toledo, Peoria & Western’s Morton Switcher departs Morton, Illinois, with a diminutive train for the yard at East Peoria on a cold day in December 1983. The local this day is powered by TP&W’s... (more)