It’s Christmas day and the scrappers working in Wisconsin Central’s Shops Yard locomotive facility at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, are home with their families enjoying the holiday. In the foregr... (more)

A Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight cruises along the Yellowstone River just east of Elton, Montana, on the morning of June 29, 2000. For power on the eastbound train, a pair of Cascade green B... (more)

A westbound BNSF grain train, led by EMD SD70ACe No. 9115, passes the calm back waters of the Clark Fork between Noxon and Heron, Montana, on June 29, 2020.

Chicago & North Western’s Proviso to Itasca freight makes a pick up at Butler Yard in a Wisconsin snowstorm on January 10, 1993. After merging into the Union Pacific, the long-standing C&NW yard o... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s night gas local departs Missoula and has just passed through the junction at De Smet, Montana, on the afternoon of June 26, 2020. This junction is where MRL’s Tenth Subdivision... (more)

It’s well below 0°F in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan on the frigid eve of January 18, 1997. The sun is lowering almost as fast as the the temperature when eastbound Wisconsin Central freight LO3... (more)

Nevada Northern Railway Alco RS3 No. 109 and a short freight train sits in the siding at Lavon, Nevada, as NNRy No. 93 storms by with an ore train as the sun sets on February 7, 2004.

Seven six-axle locomotives power a Burlington Northern empty coal train over the impressive 640-foot North Platte River Bridge at Guernsey, Wyoming, on July 4, 1988. Locomotives up front are as fo... (more)

After crossing Soldier Summit, Union Pacific’s LJP44 local from Salt Lake City approaches Helper as it drops downgrade out the the Price River Canyon at Castle Gate, Utah, on December 1, 2004. Thi... (more)

Passing the vintage grain elevator at Slater, Wyoming, is a a southbound BNSF freight on May 30, 1998. The train is powered by a colorful locomotive consist, with Santa Fe GE C40-8W No. 870 leadin... (more)

On a beautiful winter day in Utah’s Heber Valley, a 1953 Buick and a 1949 Chevrolet pickup wait at the W. 1200 S. grade crossing as Union Pacific 2-8-0 No. 618 thunders by with train 19 just south... (more)

Rolling westbound on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision along the Clark Fork is a BNSF manifest freight passing the empty yard at St. Regis, Montana, on September 29, 2014.

A westbound Union Pacific freight has stopped in front of the depot at Cheyenne waiting for a fresh crew as the old crew, grips in hand, steps off lead locomotive, EMD SD40-2 No. 3718, and heads f... (more)

On a frigid November 30, 2004, Amtrak train 6, the eastbound California Zephyr, reflects the warm light of a setting sun as it marches across the desert approaching Mounds, Utah.

Led by Montana Rail Link SD45 No. 355, MRL’s Bozeman turn approaches the U.S. Highway 89 overpass at Mission east of Livingston, Montana, on July 2, 2019.