Led by Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACe No. 4315, MRL’s eastbound Helena local traces the Missouri River into Lombard Canyon east of Toston, Montana, on June 29, 2016.

Santa Fe’s 791 train, led by GE B40-8W No. 506, sprints around the curve into Ancona, Illinois, at 2:44 p.m. on May 30, 1992.

Passing another train that is tied down in a siding, a westbound Southern Pacific freight, led by Cotton Belt GE B40-8 No. 8080, approaches Tucson at Wilmot, Arizona, on the afternoon of April 21,... (more)

Chicago Central’s train 51 pops out of the curved tunnel at East Dubuque, Illinois, and is about to clatter over the crossing of Burlington Northern’s main line on the autumn afternoon of Octo... (more)

BNSF EMD SD70MAC No. 8912 leads BNSF’s Cowley turn past milepost 414 on the Casper Subdivision as it follows the Big Horn River through Sheep Canyon north of Greybull, Wyoming, on the morning of... (more)

Ascending Montana Rail Link’s Mullan Pass west of Helena, Montana, is a westbound BNSF Herzog ballast train climbing out of Austin on the morning of June 26, 2020.

At 8:00 p.m. on the eve of May 30, 1992, Santa Fe’s 2nd 198 train flies westbound just west of Leeds, Illinois, led by a Super Fleet EMD GP60M silhouetted by the setting sun.

A westbound Chicago & North Western freight curves through North Lake, Wisconsin, on October 6, 1990. A pair of EMD SD40-2s in “Zito” yellow, power the train on the railroad’s Adams Line.

On a clear August 25, 2021, two of Manitou & Pikes Peak Railway’s new cog diesel-electric locomotives and trainsets are on top the summit of 14,115-foot Pikes Peak. Built by Stadler Rail of Swit... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific stack train soars over Cienega Creek Bridge at Vail, Arizona, on the morning of April 23, 2017.

Denver & Rio Grande Western caboose 01432 trails a short train at the Pueblo Railway Museum at Pueblo, Colorado, on August 25, 2021. This all steel cupola car was built by the Rio Grande’s capab... (more)

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)