While following the Missouri River through Lombard Canyon, an eastbound BNSF grain train passes Toston Dam east of Toston, Montana, running on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision on the morni... (more)

At 3:15 p.m. on August 20, 1988, an eastbound Santa Fe trailer train, led by AT&SF EMD F45 No. 5975, drops downgrade off Edelstein Hill just west of Chillicothe, Illinois.

Climbing the two-percent ramp out Leyden, Colorado, under stormy skies is Union Pacific’s westbound MDVRO manifest freight on the afternoon of October 29, 1999. Six locomotives power the train, ... (more)

A Conrail autorack train, led by CR GE C40-8W No. 6098, approaches Chicago & North Western’s Proviso Yard at Northlake, Illinois, on February 9, 1992. On the left, C&NW EMD SD38-2 No. 6654 switc... (more)

Milwaukee Road EMD GP40 No. 2001 leads Soo Line train 249 westbound out of the yard at La Crosse, Wisconsin, on October 3, 1987. A man in the elevated signal tower on the right still manually cont... (more)

On a crisp, breezy October 6, 2018, an eastbound BNSF grain train crosses the long bridge over Lake Pend Oreille at Sandpoint, Idaho.

An eastbound BNSF freight drops downgrade on Montana Rail Link’s Winston Hill east of Winston, Montana, on the morning of July 1, 2020.

Powered by a pair of EMD SD40-2s, an eastbound Burlington Northern intermodal train follows a frozen Mississippi River into Savanna, Illinois, on the afternoon of January 30, 1993.

Santa Fe EMD SD45 No. 5341 is flanked by EMD GP7u No. 2013 and GE C30-7 8057 in front of the diesel house at the railroad’s Corwith Yard locomotive facility at Corwith, Illinois, on December 5, ... (more)

In a view from wading into the water, Chicago & North Western’s Janesville to Chicago freight crosses the Tiffany Bridge over Turtle Creek at Tiffany, Wisconsin, on the morning of July 29, 1995.... (more)

Passing Geraniums neatly-planted along the platform at Hinsdale, Illinois, is a westbound Metra “dinky” accelerating after discharging passengers at the station stop on the pleasant spring aft... (more)

Late in the day of May 29, 1998, a southbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train crosses the bridge over Caballo Creek at milepost 17 on the Orin Line in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin.

Several Soo Line and Milwaukee Road units rest outside the illuminated enginehouse at the locomotive facility at Bensenville Yard in Bensenville, Illinois, on the night of December 5, 1987.

Coal for University of Wisconsin-Madison’s power plant arrived via barge on the Mississippi River at Prairie du Chien. It then was switched by this old Whitcomb locomotive, and picked up by a Wi... (more)

An eastbound Santa Fe piggyback train flies past a trackside pond just west of Leeds, Illinois, on the morning of May 30, 1992. Powering the train is EMD GP50 No. 3811, followed by an A-B-B set of... (more)