Wisconsin Central’s westbound PRANA freight, led by EMD F45 No. 6651, switches at Black Wolf, Wisconsin, as the man on the ground tries to stay warm at the junction switch. Winter can last a long ... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2 No. 6836 and Montana Rail Link EMD F45 No. 392 lead BN train 110 over the Rock River at Oregon, Illinois, on the morning of October 22, 1994. MRL No. 392 is still pa... (more)

Former Amtrak EMD SDP40F No. 635, rebuilt by the Santa Fe at the San Bernardino Shops into SDF40-2 No. 5254 in 1985, rests at the locomotive facility at Corwith Yard near Chicago, Illinois, on Feb... (more)

A trio of Grinstein-painted EMD SD70MACs leads an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train following the North Platte River in Wendover Canyon between Cassa and Wendover, Wyoming, on July... (more)

A Burlington Northern local heads to East Dubuque light engine and passes milepost 172 at the twin truss bridges over the Sinsinawa River west of Portage, Illinois, on April 3, 1993. This location... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD F9A-2 BN-1 and F9B-2 BN-2 lead a passenger special of borrowed Metra commuter cars and BN E9A No. 9902. The train was giving visitors short rides in the Galesburg, Illinois... (more)

BN’s trademark
Burlington Northern EMD GP39E No. 2759, a rebuilt GP30 originally built as Southern Railway No. 2547, shows off its new low short nose decorated in bold “whiteface” colors... (more)

Small town, Illinois
With horns blazing, an eastbound Chicago & North Western freight crosses Third Street at Malta, Illinois, on March 25, 1995. The old brick buildings lining the sidew... (more)

Led by lone Union Pacific GE ES44AC No. 8172, a westbound vehicle train climbs Peru Hill on the railroad’s Evanston Subdivision west of Green River, Wyoming, on the afternoon of October 9, 2015.

A short eastbound Burlington Northern ‘Expediter’ intermodal train, pulled by lone EMD GP50 No. 3151, approaches Savanna, Illinois, in a view from Mississippi Palisades State Park on September 5, ... (more)

Union Pacific EMD SD40-2 No. 3071 is in the process of being remanufactured into a SD40N at railroad’s capable shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 18, 2015.

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)

Just before sunset on October 7, 2020, Montana Rail Link’s Helena local accelerates out of Townsend, Montana, after meeting an eastbound BNSF train there, and storms over the Missouri River bound ... (more)

On a cold February 17, 1985 day, a short Wisconsin & Calumet freight slowly curves south at Oneco, Illinois, just south of the Wisconsin state line. A former Milwaukee Road GP9 powers the train, t... (more)

VIA Rail train 1, the westbound Canadian, scoots across the Snaring River Bridge at Henry House, Alberta, on July 19, 2013. A deadheading Park-series dome-observation car is behind the power on to... (more)