On the stormy and darkening evening of June 25, 2019, Montana Rail Link’s Helena switch rolls through a curve just out of Winston, Montana. Powering the short local with two cars for the limesto... (more)

A welder makes repairs to the plow on Union Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 6344 inside the Diesel House at UP’s Burnham Shops at Denver, Colorado, on the evening of December 8, 2015.

The last bit of sunlight on the long day of June 30, 2017, briefly lights up the DPU of a westbound BNSF grain train as it enters the dark shadows of Lombard Canyon between Lombard and Toston, Mon... (more)

A westbound BNSF coal train climbs through colorful Iron Ridge cut on the large horseshoe curve between Austin and Weed while ascending Montana Rail Link’s Mullan Pass west of Helena, Montana, o... (more)

Several EMD locomotives are in the Diesel House at Union Pacific’s Burnham Shops in Denver, Colorado, on December 16, 2015. Built in 1874 by the Rio Grande, the shops and yard at Burnham, locate... (more)

Machinist Hector M. Ramirez carefully checks his progress while operating the Simmons wheel lathe truing the wheels of Union Pacific GE ES44AC No. 8260 in the railroad’s locomotive shop at South... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s Helena switch serves the limestone plant at Townsend, Montana, on the morning of June 30, 2017.

St. Maries River Railroad’s eastbound freight crosses the long Benewah Lake trestle just west of Ramsdell, Idaho, on September 27, 2021. STMA EMD GP9 Nos. 101 and 103 bring 10 empty cars interch... (more)

A southbound BNSF manifest freight pops out of 177-foot Tunnel 4 between Dornick and Piper, Wyoming rugged Wind River Canyon on the afternoon of July 3, 2019.

At 8:44 p.m. on July 4, 2019, the storms with heavy rain and lightning have moved off to the east as a southbound BNSF coal train reaches the top of hill at Logan, Wyoming, in Powder River Basin.

Burlington Northern train 203 rumbles westbound through Flag Center, Illinois, on the sunny afternoon of April 16, 1988. BN No. 2700 is a GP39-2 built by EMD in 1981, and the third unit is a lease... (more)

Following placid water of the Missouri River through Lombard Canyon above Toston Dam is an eastbound BNSF coal empty between Toston and Lombard, Montana, late in the afternoon of June 25, 2017.

A heavy 100-car Union Pacific Herzog ballast train plods westbound up the two-percent grade of the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. The train is climbing through four tunnels at South Draw just east of ... (more)

Under a big Montana sky, Montana Rail Link’s MMISLAU (Missoula to Laurel manifest) freight approaches Winston on the morning of July 3, 2018.

With a single locomotive fore and aft, an eastbound BNSF vehicle train follows the Missouri River as it exits Lombard Canyon at Lombard, Montana, on the afternoon of July 2, 2017. On the opposite ... (more)