BNSF EMD SD70ACe No. 9116 leads an eastbound manifest freight downgrade on Mullan Pass out of Weed, Montana, and is approaching large Iron Ridge cut on the morning of June 30, 2022.

Southern Pacific EMD SD40T-2 No. 8355 waits on a train at the SP’s yard in Mojave, California, on March 6, 1995. The optional extended nose houses radio and electronic equipment used for remote-... (more)

A BNSF coal train follows the Missouri River and cloud shadows, as it negotiates Lombard Canyon at Lombard, Montana, during a beautiful afternoon on June 30, 2018.

Montana Rail Link’s Helena local heads toward some stormy weather as it climbs Winston Hill past milepost 215 east of Winston Montana, on the afternoon of July 7, 2022. The four-car local is goi... (more)

Missouri Pacific EMD MP15DC No. 1384 sits in the afternoon sun at the Yard Center locomotive facility at Dolton, Illinois, on September 15, 1985.

An eastbound BNSF vehicle train pops into daylight out of Tunnel 7 at Lyle, Washington, on the scenic Fallbridge Subdivision main line in the Columbia River Gorge on September 24, 2016.

Union Pacific EMD SD40N (rebuilt SD40-2) No. 1826 has some work done in the Diesel House at the railroad’s former Rio Grande Burnham Shops on December 17, 2015.

A Chicago & North Western freight arrives at the yard in Butler, Wisconsin, amid a winter flurry on February 20, 1986. C&NW EMD SD40-2 No. 6860 leads a SD45 still in Cascade green BN colors and a ... (more)

Soo Line train 11 meets train 18 at Rugby, Wisconsin, late in the afternoon of July 26, 1987. Train 11 is led by Soo EMD SD40 No. 780, while a pair of EMD GP30s built in 1963 powers train 11.

Amtrak train 8, the eastbound Empire Builder, approaches the only active railroad tunnel in Wisconsin at appropriately-named Tunnel City on September 27, 1987.

BNSF SD75M No. 8267, built by EMD in February 1996, sits in the siding at Ash Hill, California, on March 11, 2002.

A southbound (eastbound) Union Pacific coal load passes underneath Lawver Road overpass at the old location of the north switch of Antelope siding (back when this was a single track mainline throu... (more)

Three southbound Southern Pacific trains sit in the SP yard at Mojave, California, on March 3, 1994. Both freight trains on the left are led by SP EMD SD45T-2s, while the oil cans in the distance ... (more)

A pair of Milwaukee Road EMD GP40s power Soo Line train 243 at Duplainville, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of April 12, 1987. The eastbound train is making a set out on the old Soo Line siding using... (more)

A pair of Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACes—Nos. 4403 and 4402—power westbound MRL MLAUMIS as it curves around a bend on the Missouri River in Lombard Canyon west of Lombard, Montana, on June 22,... (more)