The sun has set on the longest day of the year, June 21, 2020, as a southbound BNSF coal train surmounts Logan Hill north of Bill, Wyoming. Over on Track 1, a southbound Union Pacific coal load ch... (more)

A City of Prineville freight train slowly proceeds westbound on a long tangent with a pretty good vertical curve, approaching Prineville Junction, Oregon, on a sunny September 28, 2016.

Power for Copper Basin Railway’s Smelter Job switches in the yard at Hayden, Arizona, as seen from CBRY EMD GP39 No. 505 leading ore train OT-1 that is ready to depart on April 20, 2017. Locomotiv... (more)

Inside Union Pacific’s Kansas City Locomotive Facility, mechanical department employee Don Sullivan does some paperwork as EMD GP15-1 UPY 697 awaits further attention in the background on October,... (more)

Negotiating the undulating profile of the C&I line in northern Illinois farm county is a pair of Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2s powering eastbound BNSF double stack train 54 west of Flag Center o... (more)

A westbound City of Prineville Railway freight passes through ranch country in the Crooked River Valley west of Prineville, Oregon, as it approaches Lone Pine Road grade crossing at O’Neil on Sept... (more)

The fuel tracks are quiet on the night of December 22, 2012, at Union Pacific’s North Yard locomotive facility in Denver, Colorado.

Union Pacific 2-8-0 No. 618 approaches Decker’s Bay with a freight amid the snowy splendor of Utah’s Wasatch Mountains in winter on February 6, 2007. The chartered photo freight is operating on Ut... (more)

A southbound Kansas City Southern freight passes through Union Pacific’s Bloomington Yard at Bloomington, Texas, on March 13, 2013. From Victoria, KCS uses trackage rights on UP’s Cuero, Angleton ... (more)

Sunset over Wendover Canyon
At day’s end on July 4, 1999, an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train powered by three SD70MACs, leaving a thin veil of exhaust in its wake, neg... (more)

On the afternoon of October 28, 2020, Freeport-McMoRan EMD GP38/38-2 locomotives chant loudly curving through corral cut while climbing the steep three to five percent grade from the Arizona Easte... (more)

Soo Line train 223 trundles along a frozen Mississippi River at Lansing, Iowa, on February 20, 1993. Lead locomotive, Soo Line EMD GP38-2 No. 4512, is a former Milwaukee Road locomotive in “Bandit... (more)

A westbound Chicago & North Western grain train passes under a vestige from the historic days of steam locomotives, a substantial concrete coaling tower, still spanning the main line at De Kalb, I... (more)

The blue hour is approaching as an eastbound BNSF coal empty rolls eastbound on Montana Rail link’s Fourth Subdivision at Trout Creek, Montana, on February 8, 2021.

Helm Leasing Corp. (HLCX) EMD GP38-2 No. 3849 has a pair of machinists replacing a power assembly in the unit at Union Pacific’s Kansas City Locomotive Facility on October 22, 2013. An overhead cr... (more)