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Burlington Northern/Metra bi-level commuter cars fill Hill Yard in Aurora, Illinois, on weekends like in this view on Saturday, April 16, 1988.

An eastbound BNSF freight on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision, heads out of Big Timber, Montana, beneath the Crazy Mountains on the morning of June 25, 2017. The name Crazy Mountains is a sh... (more)

A southbound (eastbound) Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western coal train passes a small dam on Painted Woods Creek just west of Merida, North Dakota, on August 28, 2018. DMVW SD50F Nos. 5454 and 5418... (more)

Wisconsin Central train 47 departs Duplainville during a Wisconsin snowstorm on January 25, 1996.

Dense fog is finally burning off in Utah’s Heber Valley on the morning of February 6, 2007, as Union Pacific 2-8-0 No. 618 storms past with a freight train operated by the Heber Valley Railroad, s... (more)

The big bridge over little Muddy Creek feels the weight of an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight at Collins, Montana, on September 5, 1998. The train heading for Great Falls is led by ... (more)

The power for Union Pacific’s LJP45 “dirt train” local out of Helper, Utah, sits near the locomotive facility on the cold night of December 1, 2004.

An eastbound Union Pacific coal train climbs Winter Park hill leaving Fraser, Colorado, on February 16, 2002. Just visible across from the station at Fraser is the Rio Grande Ski Train, led by an ... (more)

As early summer thunderstorms rumble over the Book Cliffs, a trio of Rio Grande SD40T-2 Tunnel Motors, Nos. 5349, 5390 and 5371, head westbound out of Mounds, Utah, with Union Pacific’s LJP45 “dir... (more)

A pair of Southern Pacific GE AC4400CWs lead an eastbound Union Pacific coal train over Coal Creek between Plainview and Clay, Colorado, on a sunny and dry January 21, 2002.

After switching the Weyerhaeuser’s Santiam Lumber mill at Waterloo south of Lebanon, Oregon, an Albany & Eastern train heads back to Lebanon on the AERC’s Sweet Home branch on September 26, 2016. ... (more)

An eastbound BNSF freight, powered by a pair of GE C44-9Ws, curves out of Dallesport, Washington, on the morning of September 29, 2016. Mount Hood stands prominently in the background at this loca... (more)

Burlington Northern GP9 No. 1858 and Fort Worth & Denver caboose No. 185 are assigned to local service at Mendota, Illinois, and wait for their next call of duty on the night of August 24, 1991. B... (more)

For a couple of years in the late ’90s, Ansco’s Rio Grande Ski Train leased Amtrak F40PHs for power, before purchasing three for the train in 2000. On December 27, 1997, Amtrak Nos. 388 and 298 pu... (more)

Five GE AC4400CW locomotives, a quartet still in Southern Pacific colors, lead Union Pacific’s MDVRO (Denver to Roper Yard in Salt Lake City) manifest freight out of Tunnel 16 as the train approac... (more)