An eastbound BNSF coal empty makes its way across the long bridge linking Algoma with Sandpoint, Idaho, on the pretty afternoon of October 6, 2018.

Norfolk & Western EMD GP30 No. 558, complete with a high-hood nose, sits at Peoria & Pekin Union Railway’s yard at Peoria in March 1984. Only Southern Railway and N&W GP30s came with the unique ... (more)

On September 7, 1999, a Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight rolls through Grizzly, Montana, after crossing Marias Pass on the southern border of Glacier National Park. Burlington Northern GE C30-... (more)

A short Wisconsin & Southern train heads west at Randolph, Wisconsin, on May 5, 1997. Powering the four-car train on the railroad’s Horicon to Cambria line is WSOR No. 4326, a former Chicago & N... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s 844 local drops back to the Fifth Subdivision main line with eight tank cars from the petroleum facility at Logan, Montana, on June 26, 2017. Milwaukee Road’s line to Bozem... (more)

An obvious former Milwaukee Road unit, WAMX EMD MP15AC No. 1598 sits at Columbia Falls, Montana, while operating for Mission Mountain Railroad on October 7, 2018. The Soo Line black patch “bandi... (more)

An eastbound BNSF coal train snakes along the scenic Missouri River as it approaches Trident, Montana, on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision on September 26, 2007. Powering the train is BNSF... (more)

A San Luis & Rio Grande photo freight, powered by 2-6-0 No. 1744, aims at La Veta Pass east of after departing Alamosa, Colorado, at first light. This is a special photo freight operated by the ra... (more)

The sun has just cracked the horizon on the morning of September 20, 2007, as San Luis & Rio Grande’s former Southern Pacific 2-6-0 No. 1744 works toward La Veta Pass east of Alamosa, Colorado. ... (more)

Autumn in Glacier country
A westbound BNSF grain train exits Tunnel 4 and curves along the Middle Fork of the Flathead River just east of West Glacier (Belton), Montana, on October 8, 20... (more)

The grittiness of a big city like Milwaukee can be seen in this view of a southbound Hiawatha service Amtrak train crossing the Menomonee River Bridge moments after departing Wisconsin’s largest... (more)

While following the Missouri River through Lombard Canyon, an eastbound BNSF grain train passes Toston Dam east of Toston, Montana, running on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision on the morni... (more)

At 3:15 p.m. on August 20, 1988, an eastbound Santa Fe trailer train, led by AT&SF EMD F45 No. 5975, drops downgrade off Edelstein Hill just west of Chillicothe, Illinois.

Climbing the two-percent ramp out Leyden, Colorado, under stormy skies is Union Pacific’s westbound MDVRO manifest freight on the afternoon of October 29, 1999. Six locomotives power the train, ... (more)

A Conrail autorack train, led by CR GE C40-8W No. 6098, approaches Chicago & North Western’s Proviso Yard at Northlake, Illinois, on February 9, 1992. On the left, C&NW EMD SD38-2 No. 6654 switc... (more)