Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western’s “wayfreight” slowly rolls northbound through through Baldwin, North Dakota, on August 27, 2018.

Softly burbling on the still night of August 29, 1987, is Escanaba & Lake Superior Baldwin RS12 No. 300 on the lead of a chartered passenger train at Howard, near Green Bay, Wisconsin. Dressed in ... (more)

Chicago & North Western EMD SD40-2 Nos. 6826 and 6827 trundle along the shore of scenic Devil’s Lake, near Baraboo, Wisconsin, enroute to Milwaukee with the ever-popular circus train on July 10,... (more)

BNSF’s Sandpoint local, led by EMD GP60M-3 No. 105, flies through the curve approaching Athol, Idaho, on February 3, 2022.

The blue hour is settling in over Sandpoint, Idaho, on the eve of February 3, 2022, as an eastbound BNSF grain empty crosses the long bridge over Lake Pend Oreille. In the foreground on the frozen... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s Helena switch, led by EMD GP9 No. 109, is passing the old stock pens and loading chute at Townsend, Montana, on July 3, 2018.

Denver & Rio Grande T-12 No. 168 gets serviced at Chama, New Mexico, on the evening of August 28, 2021. After service on Rio Grande for 55 years, the ten-wheeler spent 1938 to 2016 in Antlers Park... (more)

Wisconsin & Southern EMD GP20 No. 2001 rolls through the Wisconsin countryside north of Burnett on the WSOR’s Horicon to Oshkosh line on May 6, 1997.

On Chicago & North Western’s Adams Line, a C&NW potash extra heads eastbound through North Lake, Wisconsin, on a wintery March 22, 1992.

A southbound Wisconsin Central freight treads as lightly as it can through the front yards of homes lining Division Street in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, on November 18, 1989. Two children head down the s... (more)

A BNSF grain train crosses the Clark Fork on Bridge 208 west of Donlan, Montana, while working west over Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision on October 6, 2020.

Pastureland along Montana Rail Link’s Harrison branch is verdant green on June 22, 2015, as MRL’s 844 local brings three covered hoppers upgrade to the Harrison Elevator Company at the end of ... (more)

Chicago & North Western train 569 curves through Wales, west of Waukesha, Wisconsin, in August 1983, powered by a trio of EMD GP7 locomotives. Early the following year, C&NW abandoned this line fr... (more)

Green Bay & Western train 2 crosses a bridge parallel to a dam on the Black River that forms Lake Arbutus at Hatfield, Wisconsin, on December 5, 1992. The train is pulled by a quartet of GB&W Alco... (more)

Heading southwesterly on the Burlington Northern Fourth Subdivision main line from Galesburg to West Quincy (and eventually, Kansas City) is a BN freight at Saluda, Illinois, on August 27, 1989. T... (more)