Under a near picture-perfect sky, a Wisconsin Central freight heads northbound out of Duplainville, Wisconsin, on March 15, 1996. The train is powered by Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 119, and ... (more)

A BNSF coal empty snakes into Lombard, Montana, on the morning of June 25, 2020, while rolling eastbound on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision main line through Lombard Canyon.

The old U.S. Highway 95 truss bridge now carries only footprints in the snow, replaced years ago by a new, modern bridge just to the west, conveying the road over the BNSF’s busy former Northern... (more)

An eastbound Wisconsin & Southern passenger special has a former California Zephyr dome-observation car carrying the markers as it passes a WSOR local at Middleton, just west of Madison, Wisconsin... (more)

A Wisconsin & Southern passenger train passes a field of dandelions at Blue River, Wisconsin, on May 19, 1996. The special is running from Prairie du Chien east to Madison on this former Milwaukee... (more)

Soo Line EMD GP30 No. 716 leads Soo train 17 westbound at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of June 7, 1987. The view is along Mount Vernon Avenue not far west of Milwaukee’s Amtrak Station... (more)

Burlington Northern second train 2 proceeds past some colorful autumn colors on the bluffs lining the tracks at La Crosse, Wisconsin, on October 14, 1989. Both locomotives are rebuilt, with GP39M ... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s gas local out of Pipeline at Thompson Falls passes the cantilever searchlight signal mast at the east end of Plains siding as it heads eastbound through Plains, Montana, on t... (more)

The blue hour has settled in over the Clark Fork Valley in far western Montana on the eve of February 4, 2022. Just west of Trout Creek, the lead locomotive of a westbound BNSF manifest freight li... (more)

It’s late in the day of February 5, 2022, as an eastbound BNSF grain train crosses Bridge 55 over the inlet of Trout Creek into the Clark Fork at Trout Creek, Montana. This location is on Montan... (more)

Union Pacific Northern No. 844 gets its rods and crankpins lubed during a service stop at Rawlins, Wyoming, on May 6, 2019. The 4-8-4 was accompanying UP Big Boy No. 4014 on a trip west to Ogden, ... (more)

Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western’s “wayfreight” slowly rolls northbound through through Baldwin, North Dakota, on August 27, 2018.

Softly burbling on the still night of August 29, 1987, is Escanaba & Lake Superior Baldwin RS12 No. 300 on the lead of a chartered passenger train at Howard, near Green Bay, Wisconsin. Dressed in ... (more)

Chicago & North Western EMD SD40-2 Nos. 6826 and 6827 trundle along the shore of scenic Devil’s Lake, near Baraboo, Wisconsin, enroute to Milwaukee with the ever-popular circus train on July 10,... (more)

BNSF’s Sandpoint local, led by EMD GP60M-3 No. 105, flies through the curve approaching Athol, Idaho, on February 3, 2022.