With a hearty turn to the right, Creston Road is going the same place as this eastbound Chicago & North Western freight train. In about two thousand feet, both will be traversing through the town ... (more)

Union Pacific EMD SD70M No. 4831 is having its No. 5 wheel set/traction motor assembly replaced at UP’s Kansas City Locomotive Facility in Kansas City, Missouri, on October 21, 2013. After removin... (more)

On the eastern edge of Jasper National Park, Canadian National train 303 exits Brule Tunnel and approaches Park Gate, Alberta, on the afternoon of July 12, 2014. Leading the train is CN EMD SD70AC... (more)

Union Pacific’s Denver to Phippsburg freight rumbles through Rocky, Colorado, on the afternoon of October 23, 2011. Three levels of track can be seen here, and the freight will negotiate them all ... (more)

Crews from Hulcher and R.J. Corman move a track panel with a side boom caterpillar while cleaning up a derailment at Lakeside, Nebraska, on BNSF’s Sand Hills Subdivision. The derailment happened o... (more)

Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr curves into Mendota, Illinois, on its trip over Burlington Northern’s Chicago to Galesburg main line on April 16, 1988.

After an almost completely stormy and rainy day in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, a southbound BNSF coal train is south of Bill as it casts itself against a sky illuminated by the setting sun on Ma... (more)

Burlington Northern train 3 softly reflects in the Mississippi River as it heads west of Savanna, Illinois, late in the afternoon of April 3, 1993. Trailing the BN EMD SD40-2 leading the train are... (more)

A view from above inside the main shop building at Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, sees locomotives gathered for rebuild and overhaul, including UP EMD SD40-2... (more)

Behind Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop is an outdoor yard with “used” locomotive parts. Components such as fuel tanks, cabs, plows, various hood sections—such as this EMD long hood from some... (more)

Deseret Power Railway’s westbound unit coal train passes milepost 1 west of the Deserado Mine loadout north of Rangely, Colorado, on the afternoon of October 21, 2015. Three General Electric E60C-... (more)

A Montana Western Railway freight departs Silver Bow, Montana, powered by a quartet of leased Rarus Railway EMD GP9s, still decorated in the same colors when delivered new to predecessor Butte, An... (more)

After loading at Antelope Mine, a southbound BNSF coal train departs and enters the four main tracks at Converse Junction and begins its climb up Logan Hill on the Orin Line in Wyoming’s Powder Ri... (more)

Following the Colorado River out of Little Gore Canyon between Azure and Radium, Colorado, is a set of light engines going west on Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision on June 6, 2013.

Light engines head west at mile 14.5 west of Leyden, Colorado, on Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision on the afternoon of August 28, 2013. Nine UP units are led by GE AC4400CW No. 7313, pass... (more)