Amtrak’s Empire Builder is about to leave the mountains of Glacier National Park behind as it cruises eastbound through Grizzly, Montana, on February 29, 1992.

Chicago Transit Authority car No. 5127 crosses the diamonds at Tower 18 on the elevated “L” rapid transit railway above Lake and Wells Streets on November 8, 2018. This junction is still considere... (more)

A pair of brand-new GE ES44AC locomotives, Nos. 7651 and 7653, power an eastbound Union Pacific freight on Track 1 at Dale Junction while climbing over Sherman Hill on the morning of October 16, 2... (more)

On September 5, 2003, a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest crosses the bridge over Lake Pend Oreille between Sandpoint and Algoma, Idaho. Leading the train is former Santa Fe GE B40-8... (more)

Rebuilds under a Big Sky
A trio of unique Montana Rail Link locomotives with a westbound freight climbs out of Helena at Tobin, Montana, heading for the 2.2% grades of Mullan Pass on the... (more)

An eastbound BNSF coal empty cruises by a relic from another age—the old Northern Pacific-era stock pens, complete with two loading chutes—still located at Toston, Montana, on July 1, 2018.

Almost like the “good old days”
Even after Union Pacific’s merger of Southern Pacific, for several years, locomotives for the West local out of Denver on the former Rio Grande Moffat Tu... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight train climbs Raton Pass at Gallinas, Colorado, on February 26, 1999, led by GE C40-8W No. 911 still nicely displaying Santa Fe’s famous warbonnet l... (more)

Two trains meet near Palmer Lake, Colorado, at a location know as “Sag” or Spruce. When the Santa Fe built its line between Colorado Springs and Denver, Rio Grande was already there, and per agree... (more)

Led by Western Pacific heritage SD70ACe No. 1983, Union Pacific’s Denver to Phippsburg, Colorado, manifest freight train works upgrade out of Eisele toward Blue Mountain Drive grade crossing on th... (more)

The jagged mountains of Glacier National Park fill the background behind an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe stack train at Bison, Montana, on the morning of June 4, 2002.

Clouds fill the Clark Fork Valley at Trout Creek, Montana, as a lowly westbound BNSF ballast train crosses the causeway past a reflective frog pond on May 9, 2010.

Southern Pacific GE C44-9W No. 8194 leads a Wisconsin Central taconite ore train up Byron Hill at Byron, Wisconsin, on February 26, 1995.

Following the Bighorn River, BNSF’s Cowley turn departs Himes, Wyoming, and is entering incomparable Himes Canyon as it heads northbound on the morning of June 25, 2018. The local operates out of ... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe intermodal train crosses the towering Two Medicine Bridge at East Glacier, Montana, on December 21, 1998. A trio of Heritage I GE C44-9Ws power the train—N... (more)