After an almost completely stormy and rainy day in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, a southbound BNSF coal train is south of Bill as it casts itself against a sky illuminated by the setting sun on ... (more)

Winter reflection
Mountains lining the Clark Fork Valley cast a reflection in the confluence of Trout Creek as an eastbound BNSF grain train crosses over Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Monta... (more)

Fog is burning off just after sunrise on October 2, 2014, as a BNSF freight crosses the Clark Fork between Heron and Noxon, Montana, while working east on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision.

On February 25, 1994, it’s still snowing and dusk is approaching as Soo Line train 421 blasts west through Brookfield, Wisconsin, with Soo EMD SD60 No. 6014 clearing the way, and has all but obs... (more)

After Union Pacific began operation of the Moffat Tunnel line in the wake of the Southern Pacific merger, there was a brief era when UP assigned Rio Grande’s GP60s to the Ski Train. On the morni... (more)

Raising is own rooster tail of blowing snow is an eastbound Burlington Northern freight at Grizzly, Montana, beneath the towering peaks of Glacier National Park on March 3, 1989. The train is led ... (more)

An empty BNSF coal train crosses Union Pacific’s massive bridge at Joso, Washington, on September 21, 2015. These BNSF coal trains use UP’s Ayer Subdivision (the Washy) out of Spokane to the p... (more)

A bitter cold winter day has caused a rail break on the Wisconsin Central main line entering Shops Yard near the Subway Road grade crossing at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on December 11, 1994. T... (more)

An eastbound BNSF coal train passes through the massive cut at East Stokes, Wyoming, on June 21, 2020. In the spring of 1998, BNSF daylighted Sunset Tunnel, also known as the 1,928-foot Tunnel 2 b... (more)

The sun tries to break through on a snowy morning in the mountains of Colorado as Union Pacific’s Denver to Grand Junction freight, led by Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 149, rumbles through C... (more)

Dense fog is finally burning off in Utah’s Heber Valley on the morning of February 6, 2007, as Union Pacific 2-8-0 No. 618 storms past with a freight train operated by the Heber Valley Railroad,... (more)

Four Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 Tunnel Motors bring the westbound Union Pacific LJP45 “dirt train” local into Mounds, Utah, on the sunny afternoon of January 30, 2003. The train is about to enter ... (more)

Wallowing in the weeds at Walton
Quiet in the tiny hamlet of Walton, Illinois, is disturbed by the infrequent passage of an eastbound Burlington Northern local on June 10, 1984. Trackage... (more)

On September 21, 2015, Canadian Pacific AC4400CW No. 9620 leads a westbound Union Pacific grain train across the huge bridge spanning the Snake River at Joso, Washington.

An eastbound Southern Pacific manifest freight grinds uphill climbing Tennessee Pass and crosses the Eagle River approaching Pando, Colorado, on August 2, 1996. Not only does the train have to fig... (more)