A westbound Burlington Northern/Metra commuter train, led by BN E9 No. 9906, is panned past the park at the station at Highlands, Illinois, on June 18, 1989.

Heavy railroad ties and stout pipe is utilized at a corner in the fencing along Wyoming’s Orin Line on Logan Hill, and in the background, another BNSF coal empty cruises up the hill at Logan on ... (more)

Powered by EMD SD40-2XR No. 257 and EMD SD45 No. 346, an eastbound Montana Rail Link ballast train takes the siding at Townsend, Montana, on the morning of June 26, 2019.

Amtrak’s westbound Empire Builder passes Soo Line train 17 at Duplainville, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of June 6, 1987. Leading train 17 is a former Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern EMD SD39,... (more)

Chicago & North Western locomotives await assignment at the railroad’s engine facility at Proviso, Illinois, on September 13, 1987. C&NW’s Proviso Yard was the railroad’s major yard in the C... (more)

On December 3, 1988, Baltimore & Ohio EMD SD9 No. 1836, dressed in colorful Chessie System colors, sits near the locomotive facility at Barr Yard in Riverdale, Illinois.

Beginning the arduous climb over Mullan Pass is Burlington Northern train 123 at Tobin, just west of Helena, Montana, on September 10, 1995. A portion of the city of Helena can be seen in the back... (more)

A pair of Amtrak GE B32BWH “Pepsi can” locomotives with the eastbound Southwest Chief fly out of Ancona in a panned photograph on the afternoon of May 15, 1993. Neatly-planted rows of corn tha... (more)

Belt Railway of Chicago Alco C424 Nos. 603 and 604 crosses over to Track 1 on the Indiana Harbor Belt main approaching the Burlington Northern overpass at La Grange, Illinois, on February 7, 1987.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe train 144 hustles past the Trempealeau Marina along the Mississippi River at Trempealeau, Wisconsin, on June 15, 1996. Almost looking like a BN train, the Santa Fe EMD... (more)

Chicago & North Western EMD GP40 No. 5534 and an older EMD GP7, sit in front of the depot at Spooner, Wisconsin, on the railroad’s Eau Claire to Superior line on September 19, 1991.

At 3:40 p.m. on August 20, 1988, A westbound Santa Fe freight climbs Edelstein Hill east of Edelstein, Illinois. The train is led by AT&SF EMD FP45 No. 5990, painted in the doomed red and yellow S... (more)

Emerging from Tunnel 7 in the scenic Columbia River Gorge is an eastbound BNSF vehicle train on September 24, 2016. This location on BNSF’s Fallbridge Subdivision is accessed from the Chamberlai... (more)

Wisconsin Central EMD GP40 No. 3006 is in the railroad’s locomotive shop at Shop Yard in North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on September 26, 1992. On the left is Southern Pacific GP9r No. 3373 awaiti... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD E9 cab units line up on Metra commuter trains paused for the weekend at Hill Yard in Aurora, Illinois, on the afternoon of June 8, 1991.