A rustic, hand-made sign above the entrance to Chicago and North Western’s yard office in Bill, Wyoming, reads “Through these doors pass the Worlds Greatest Railroaders… That’s the way it is, out ... (more)

A switch crew goes about their work as a late season storm ramps up. The deer in the distance is looking for a dinner of spilled grain.

This is the waiting room at Lake Forest, as Metra patrons await the arrival of a mid-day off-peak commuter train to Chicago. The restored depot is a classic structure, right out of history.

A Metra patron purchases a ticket the old-fashioned way on the ex-C&NW North Line at Lake Forest, IL.

Union Pacific’s Wendover Løcal is a 3 times a week operation originating at UP’s Roper Yard in Salt Lake City. They go west from Salt Lake servicing the many mineral industries on the south side o... (more)

Veteran Montana Rail Link Engineer Charlie Kehrwald is at the controls of GP35 No. 405, as we grind up the 2.2 percent grade of the Harrison Branch at 8.6 mph a few miles south of Sappington, Mont... (more)

An Arcelor Mittal Steel employee lights a fusie as an end of train device before making a reverse movement. The loads consist of thick red hot slabs of steel. The glowing red color can not be seen... (more)

Train time at Clifton Forge on a foggy winter morning.

Break time at Clifton Forge yard. Crewmen warm themselves around a pot bellied stove during a pause from their switching chores. The engineer takes opportunity to clean the cab window of his engin... (more)

One of two tiny stretches of street running in Tacoma. This one is BNSF's line, delivering a couple loads of ethanol to the refinery at the north end of "D" street. The crewmen is a keeping a c... (more)

The Battenkill crew has backed the colorful 605 to pick up four loads dropped by the Pan Am RJ-1 local. On the left is the Pan Am Freight Main near CPF448.

Leaning against his trusty Ford F-250 a mechanical employee is poised for a roll-by inspection of a southward British Columbia Railway train arriving at the division point of Lillooet, BC on a bea... (more)

Like a view through a porthole of a worker in a shipyard, here is a member of Union Pacific’s Steam Shop crew grinding in the firebox of 4-8-4 No. 844, looking through the firebox door opening in ... (more)

The cab of Union Pacific rotary snowplow No. 900082 allows the crew to operate the motive power back in the train as well as the operations of the plow itself. The unique “marine windows” are spec... (more)

Union Pacific rotary snowplow No. 900082 resides in the Steam Shop at Cheyenne, Wyoming, on March 25, 2013. During the winter months, the plow is readied for service and stands by in case it is ne... (more)