Entering the large horseshoe curve west of Belmont, an eastbound Burlington Northern coal train slowly works its way up Nebraska’s Crawford Hill on July 9, 1994. Powering the train up front is E... (more)

Dome-observation club car “Northern View” carries the markers for an eastbound chartered passenger train called the “Bill Gates Special” heading downgrade through Crescent, Colorado, on Oc... (more)

A chartered passenger train called the “Bill Gates Special,” utilizing Wisconsin & Southern, BNSF and privately-owned equipment, rolls through Crescent, Colorado, on Union Pacific’s former R... (more)

Union Pacific GE C36-7 No. 9005 leads an eastbound intermodal train out of Green River, Wyoming, on the morning of July 6, 1988.

An eastbound Soo Line intermodal train, still operating like one of Milwaukee Road’s “Sprint” trains, approaches the end of double track at Raymore, Wisconsin, at sunset on September 26, 198... (more)

On April 5, 1996, scrappers working near the locomotive facility at Wisconsin Central’s Shops Yard at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, are reducing older surplus locomotives to pieces of scrap and ... (more)

BNSF’s east local out of Greybull powered by a pair of EMD SD40-2s, rolls southward with a single car for Bonneville, in Wyoming’s picturesque Wind River Canyon just south of the siding of Min... (more)

The massive overhead crane inside the Backshop at Union Pacific’s Burnham Shops in Denver, Colorado, easily lifts the old 4,400 hp 7FDL16 prime mover out of UP GE AC4400CW-CTE No. 5687 during an... (more)

An eastbound Burlington Northern intermodal train rolls along the bank of the Mississippi River through Victory, Wisconsin, late in the afternoon of October 12, 1991. Behind EMD GP50 No. 3127 and ... (more)

A westbound Chicago & North Western Railway freight crosses over Diggins Street as it passes through Harvard, Illinois, on its way Janesville, Wisconsin, on June 13, 1993.

A Burlington Northern Santa Fe Q train trundles by as it climbs Bozeman Pass, and with only two locomotive pulling it, MRL’s LM (Laurel to Missoula freight) has caught up to it on red signals an... (more)

A pair of Arizona Eastern Railway GE B40-8s sit in the railway’s yard at Miami, Arizona, on October 24, 2020. These units are used on a job that works Freeport McMoRan’s Miami Operations near ... (more)

After switching the grain elevator in Harrison, Montana Rail Link’s 844 local rolls downgrade on the Harrison Branch on June 27, 2016. The 9.5-mile branch out of Sappington, Montana, on MRL’s ... (more)

Grain makes its way over Washington’s Providence Hill on a westbound BNSF train while crossing the railroad’s former Northern Pacific main line, now BNSF’s Lakeside Subdivision, on the after... (more)

On a sunny and bright October 23, 2020, Freeport-McMoRan EMD GP38/38-2 locomotives work hard on a train of loaded acid tank cars curving through corral cut while climbing the steep grade from Clif... (more)