It's blue light hour at Boston Bar, BC and the Super Continental has arrived for its station stop and head end crew change. A CN caboose shows off its markers in the background and two other westb... (more)

Amtrak's Leavenworth Snow Train arrives at the station near Leavenworth in the midst of mountains and orchards. The full train will unload into school buses for the short ride into town and the em... (more)

CEFX 1012 leads a Lake Superior & Ishpeming mine run through Palmer Junction after leaving Tilden Mine. The train is returning to Eagle Mills, MI where it will later head about 10 miles east to th... (more)

CP 6018 and 5946 layover at Red Wing, MN with their rail train. Looking a little worse for wear, the 6018 still sports the CP Rail 1980s scheme including the multi-mark logo on the rear of the hoo... (more)

Climate change in eastern Montana is alive and well as an eastbound coal train gets help from DPUs BNSF 6135 and BNSF 9258 rolling a mile east of Hathaway along the Yellowstone River valley. Sunbr... (more)

MRL 259 runs long hood first with a Jimbo work train headed east at Belknap after working the west end of the Montana Rail Link during the week. MRL 259 is former BN 6324, built in November 1971, ... (more)

UP 8516 rolls west with a covered hopper train on the mainline a few miles east of Ogallala, NE. This train appeared to be an empty soda ash train headed to western Wyoming.

Minnesota Southern Geeps 1365 and 1379 pair up to switch a train together at Worthington, MN along side UP's main track through town. MSWY 1365 is a late phase GP9 originally built in July 1959 fo... (more)

Soo Line SW1200 no. 324 handles switching duties at Irvine Yard in Chippewa Falls, WI on a cool January 1973 afternoon. Delivered in black with duluxe gold striping, the unit fits well into the sn... (more)

IC 8075, a Paducah rebuilt GP10 featuring frog eye headlights, a Mars light, ox yoke air filters and quad exhaust stacks leads a freight south out of Markham Yard through Homewood, IL. It is fitti... (more)

One of CP Rail's famous yellow wide vision cabooses brings up the rear of a westbound freight as it rolls by the speeder shed and station in a snow storm on (US) Presidents Day weekend in February... (more)

The head end crew of the Canadian has given the okay to a passing freight train on Kicking Horse Pass and will soon be back on board their train to continue into Lake Louise station and on to Banf... (more)

Milwaukee Road FM switcher 731 idles with a pair of F7s at Janesville, WI in September 1972. This unit features the steam locomotive inspired cab roof extension over the end of the cab as well as ... (more)

Milwaukee Road received some of the earliest EMD SD40-2s after foregoing SD40s in favor of a handful of SD45s. Originally delivered in the 3000 series they were the last engine model delivered wit... (more)

UP 5942 is the DPU on a westbound empty coal train rolling through Odessa not long before sunset. An easttbound freight waits its turn to use the crossovers.