An eastbound grain train passes through Morant's Curve on a bright winter morning.

An eastbound grain train passes through Morant's Curve on a bright winter morning.

The Milwaukee Art Museum hosted a special exhibit in 2003 honoring hometown industrial designer Brooks Stevens. The largest piece exhibited was the Cedar Rapids Skytop Lounge observation car, one ... (more)

The American Orient Express heads east at sunset on a trans-Canada journey. Here it briefly dips into the United States to go around Lake of the Woods. This is on the Canadian National secondary m... (more)

Three-car consist of Budd RDCs on BC Rail's Cariboo Prospector returns to North Vancouver from Lillooet just before 10 p.m., during its last few weeks of operation.

VIA Rail Canada's Malahat approaches Union Bay, B.C., on Vancouver Island, as fall colour starts to show. This line between Victoria and Courtenay is the antithesis of "high iron"; in fact, one is... (more)

Three-car consist of BC Rail's Cariboo Prospector has just returned to Lillooet from Prince George, where it joins the two-car consist that came up that morning from North Vancouver, for the eveni... (more)

VIA Rail FP7A 1432 leads the westbound Canadian at Banff, Alberta in 1980.

Norfolk Southern 3010 brings up the rear of the Whippany Railway Museum's annual Easter Bunny Express at Merry Lane in East Hanover, on its return trip to the museum.

Morristown and Erie Alco RS-1 #21 at the Whippany Railway Museum on the first full day of spring, 2009.

Amtrak 1, the westbound Sunset Limited, stops in Palm Springs, Calif.

CP freight waits at Emerson, Manitoba depot for CN switching operation to clear CP's line from Winnipeg to Minneapolis. Then it will pass through the security scanner erected post 9/11 just inside... (more)

Field of ripening rapeseed lays out the yellow carpet for CN double-stack container freight heading east from Winnipeg. Train has just crossed Perimeter Highway and newly raised bridge over Red Ri... (more)

CN freight picks up speed after leaving Emerson, where it picked up cars at interchange with BNSF in Noyes, Minnesota. Ripening field of rapeseed (feedstock for canola oil) lays out the yellow car... (more)

CN freight prepares to leave border town of Emerson, Manitoba, Canada, where it picked up cars at interchange with BNSF in Noyes, Minnesota, USA. It will pick up additional cars on the run back to... (more)