Milwaukee Road EMD SD40-2 No. 186 sits alongside the enginehouse at the railroad’s locomotive facility at Bensenville, Illinois, on February 7, 1987.

Amtrak’s City of New Orleans passes the caboose of a southbound Illinois Central train north of Peotone, Illinois, at 8:28 a.m. on May 9, 1992.

Montana Rail Link’s 844 local makes its weekly trip up the Harrison branch with four covered hoppers for Harrison Elevator Co. on October 10, 2023. The train is powered by MRL EMD GP35 Nos. 404 ... (more)

Santa Fe’s QNYLA intermodal train, operating from New York to Los Angeles with Conrail, flies out of Chillicothe, Illinois, at 12:17 p.m. on December 8, 1990. Super Fleet GE B40-8W No. 503 and a... (more)

In an unusual move, a pair of Burlington Northern EMD SD70MACs power Canadian Pacific’s train 425 west past the Brookfield depot in a Wisconsin snowstorm on the eve of January 26, 1996.

An eastbound Southern Pacific coal train meets an westbound SP train at Soldier Summit, Utah, on September 7, 1995. During this era, SP AC4400CWs were common on this former Rio Grande main line.

Big blue Conrail GE No. 6040 leads an eastbound CR freight through New Carlisle, Indiana, at 1:35 p.m. on March 16, 1991. CR No. 6040 is one of 25 4,000 hp C40-8's bought from GE in 1989, assigned... (more)

Soo Line train 17 enters a curve passing the Brookfield, Wisconsin, depot on the afternoon of April 12, 1987. Soo Line EMD GP9 Nos. 400 and 2402 share locomotion with leased Conrail EMD GP38 Nos. ... (more)

There are some storms brewing to the north as an eastbound BNSF coal train rumbles through the massive cut at East Stokes, Wyoming, on June 21, 2020. In the spring of 1998, BNSF daylighted Sunset ... (more)

Chicago & North Western EMD SD40-2 Nos. 6907 and 6901, running through on the Conrail main line to Elkhart Yard in Indiana, power eastbound CR ELPR through the long curves at New Carlisle, Indiana... (more)

At 6:25 a.m. on the morning of May 28, 1989, Conrail EMD GP40 No. 3200 leads an eastbound CR freight through a curve at Burdick, Indiana.

In a scene where it almost appears like a Santa Fe freight flying through the Midwest… until you look at the details. Single track and Wisconsin Central boxcars provide a clue.

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Morrison-Knudsen EMD F45 No. 5525 sits in Martin, Utah, on September 7, 1995, while serving Utah Railway. The paint job certainly doesn’t conceal it’s former days as Santa Fe No. 5950.

Conrail EMD SD40 Nos. 6280 and 6277 helper locomotives are on the rear of an eastbound freight, assisting with braking on the Allegheny Mountain crossing west of Altoona, Pennsylvania, on October ... (more)

The Montana Rail Link yard at Logan, Montana, is busy on the morning of October 3, 2022. MRL’s 844 Logan local waits for a MRL Ballast train to clear before it can continue switching its own tra... (more)