Four formidable flares
Eighty cylinders worth of nice-looking EMD SD45s drum past with a southbound Wisconsin Central freight just north of Duplainville, Wisconsin, on a cold, wintery J... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s 844 local crosses a trestle on the steep 2.2% mountain grade on the Harrison branch just beyond milepost 6 after departing Harrison, Montana, on June 27, 2023. The local, pow... (more)

The sun has cracked the horizon as a BNSF coal train crosses Logan Hill north of Bill, Wyoming, at 6:16 a.m. on July 11, 2023. This particular train is powered by four BNSF EMD SD70ACe locomotives... (more)

On April 17, 2009, Metra MP36PH-3S No. 411 leads a westbound Metra commuter train out of Chicago and is about to pass under Roosevelt Road.

Rainbow colors of early WC
The first days of Wisconsin Central where a scramble of getting trains over the railroad and enough power to do so. On November 7, 1987, almost a month after ... (more)

Meet on Peru Hill
A westbound Union Pacific stack train, led by GE ES44AC No. 5294, meets an eastbound UP manifest freight on Peru Hill between Green River and Peru, Wyoming, on the morn... (more)

Union Pacific GE ES44AC No. 5294 is the lone motor on the point of a westbound stack train climbing Peru Hill between Green River and Peru, Wyoming, on June 23, 2023.

Montana Rail Link’s Helena local works upgrade at milepost 214 between Townsend and Winston, Montana, on the afternoon of June 27, 2023.

A westbound Union Pacific coal empty approaches Azure, Colorado, as it exits Gore Canyon and snakes through Tunnel 38 on June 19, 2023. Powering the train is dirty GE AC4400CW-CTE No. 5682 and new... (more)

A string of long-stored Union Pacific EMD SD9043MAC locomotives sit in a yard track near the Progress Rail Services facility south of Bill, Wyoming, on July 11, 2023.

The sky is brilliant red just after sunset on May 10, 1995, as more trains depart and arrive at Union Pacific’s huge Bailey Yard at North Platte, Nebraska. A westbound is about to take down its ... (more)

Snowing at Bridge 57
BNSF GE ET44C4 No. 3943 leads an eastbound unit oil train across the Clark Fork on Bridge 57 west of Trout Creek in a Montana snowstorm on February 6, 2021. Interes... (more)

An eastbound BNSF grain train sails across Bridge 62 spanning the inlet of Swamp Creek into the Clark Fork at Tuscor, Montana, on the crisp morning of October 5, 2020.

Shoving on the pellets
A Wisconsin Central “all-rail” taconite ore train has almost made it over the top of Bryon Hill as a manned pusher set out of North Fond du Lac leans into the ... (more)

With a pair of SD45s churning their collective 40 cylinders, a Wisconsin Central “all-rail” taconite ore load slowly climbs to the top of Byron Hill at Byron, Wisconsin, on March 23, 1996. WC ... (more)