Following the Missouri River is an eastbound BNSF grain empty at Lombard, Montana, on the morning of June 25, 2020.

A westbound Soo Line freight charges through Duplainville, Wisconsin, during a winter snowstorm on February 23, 1994. The interlocking plant at Duplainville is also lined up for an eastbound train... (more)

Santa Fe’s 168 train, powered by a pair of SF30Cs (rebuilt GE U36Cs) and an EMD GP20, pass milepost 133 working upgrade through Houlihan’s Curve up Edelstein Hill west of Chillicothe, Illinois, on... (more)

Thunder on Tennessee Pass
The summer monsoons in Colorado’s high country have arrived again on the afternoon of August 2, 1996, as an eastbound Southern Pacific freight that has been cl... (more)

An eastbound BNSF coal train rumbles past the Montana Rail Link depot at Thompson Falls, Montana, on September 17, 2011.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s Denver to Stockton freight climbs up the eastern grade of Utah’s Soldier Summit through the curves of Kyune on the afternoon of February 5, 2004.

Kyle Railroad plow No. MWK 06 slices through deep snow west of Edson, Kansas, on January 2, 2007. Needless to say, visibility for the crew in the pushing locomotives is non existent when plowing t... (more)

On a clear July 28, 2001, afternoon, an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train heads downgrade out of Plainview, Colorado.

An eastbound Union Pacific coal train descends the two percent grade of the rugged Moffat Tunnel Subdivision between Tunnel 3 and Tunnel 2 just west of Plainview, Colorado on the morning of Februa... (more)

The engineer gives a hearty wave from the cab of C30-7 No. 5593 on a Burlington Northern coal train led by five GE locomotives climbing out of a sag in the undulating Black Hills Subdivision main ... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight train passes the old, unused station at Huntley, Montana, on the afternoon of June 28, 2000. Huntley is the location where BNSF’s Big Horn Subdivis... (more)

The rear of a westbound BNSF unit coke train works out of Austin, Montana, while climbing Montana Rail Link’s Mullan Pass west of Helena on the morning of June 26, 2020. Above the rear DPU, anothe... (more)

A group of Union Pacific locomotives are spotted for work and servicing inside the main locomotive shop building at the railroad’s massive Bailey Yard at North Platte, Nebraska, on May 5, 2011.

Toward the end of a beautiful, clear day in Wyoming, a southbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train grinds past a oil well pump jack south of Bill in Powder River Basin on July 8, 1999.

Northbound on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s Casper Subdivision is a freight led by BNSF EMD SD40-2 No. 6338 at Sodium, Wyoming, on September 1, 1998. Behind No. 6338 is BNSF GP9u No. 1638 and... (more)