St. Maries River Railroad EMD SW1200 No. 501 switches the PotlatchDeltic lumber mill at St. Maries, Idaho, on September 27, 2021. The locomotive has just emerged from the covered plywood loading d... (more)

A westbound BNSF grain train approaches the summit of Marias Pass at appropriately-named Summit, Montana, on October 8, 2018. Autumn weather at this elevation will soon bring early snow to the pas... (more)

Bound for interchange to the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway in Illinois, a southbound Wisconsin Central taconite ore train rumbles by the old Soo Line depot at Lomira, Wisconsin, on March 23, 199... (more)

Delivering interchange traffic from FMI’s huge copper mine operation to Arizona Eastern Railway at Clifton, a Freeport McMoRan train eases down the steep grade between Morenci and Clifton, Arizo... (more)

Busy times at Franklin Park
Just east of Soo Line’s sprawling, former Milwaukee Road Bensenville Yard, an eastbound Soo Line freight meets a westbound Grand Trunk Western train at Fra... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight on Union Pacific’s Moffat Subdivision is pulled by a set of A-B-A Super Fleet warbonnets at Crescent, Colorado, on February 6, 1999. Santa Fe4 GE... (more)

A pair of Union Pacific EMD SD70Ms, Nos. 5107 and 5105, are wrapped and patched for Rocky Mountaineer Railtours on the train’s first season operating in Colorado and Utah on November 16, 2021. T... (more)

A Burlington Northern coal empty approaches the top of the grade at Palmer Lake on Colorado’s Joint Line on the afternoon of July 8, 1985. Four GE C30-7s lead a lone EMD SD40-2 as power for the ... (more)

A 16-car Royal Gorge Route Railroad passenger train crosses Hanging Bridge as it negotiates tightest portion of Royal Gorge along the Arkansas River west of the old siding location of Gorge west o... (more)

It’s autumn, but snow has already coated the jagged peaks in Glacier National Park. On October 8, 2018, a BNSF stack train crosses the oft-photographed Two Medicine Bridge at East Glacier, Monta... (more)

A Golden Arrow Lines excursion on the Central Wisconsin Railroad route between Waukesha and North Prairie is passing a small grain elevator off Main Street east of Genesee Depot in August 1984. It... (more)

After helping a BNSF westbound train over the steep grades of Mullan Pass, a standard helper set comprised of a quartet of Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACes, arrives at their home base of Helena, Mon... (more)

Santa Fe EMD GP60M No. 104 leads a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe intermodal train past the milepost 27 semaphore on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision main line at Woodlin east of T... (more)

A pair of Conrail motors hustle a westbound Santa Fe train through Houlihan’s Curve climbing Edelstein Hill just west of Chillicothe, Illinois, on the afternoon of June 4, 1988.

Theresa sunset
Five minutes before sunset on April 5, 1996, Wisconsin Central F45 No. 6653, along with a trio of SD45s, crosses the Rock River as it rolls train 49 through the marshland... (more)