Switching the Rock Island yard in Amarillo, Texas, is RI SW8 826. The end-cab switcher was built for the railroad by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in November 1952, 20 years and 4 months... (more)

Union Pacific “Big Boy” 4014 passes through Oro Grande shortly before it’s servicing stop in Victorville, California, on October 9, 2019. This is the big Alco 4-8-8-4’s second day in California, ... (more)

Chicago Transit Authority train 307 departs the Pink Line’s Costner Station in the city’s Lawndale neighborhood following the season’s first significant snowfall on November 11, 2019. This four-c... (more)

Departing Metra’s Stone Avenue Station in La Grange, Illinois, is train 1264, making its way from the western suburb of Aurora to downtown Chicago on November 11, 2019. This six-car mid-day train... (more)

The snow has stopped – for now – as Metra train 1231 arrives in Berwyn, Illinois, on November 11, 2019. This train, carrying mid-day passenger s from downtown Chicago to the suburb of Aurora (alo... (more)

Climbing Cajon Pass, and rounding Sullivan’s Curve in the process, is BNSF Railway train S-LHALPC1-11. On the headend of this intermodal train are BNSF Dash 9-44CWs 4056 and 4592, with the rear D... (more)

Not all of Chicago’s "El" trains are elevated. The Chicago Transit Authority’s Pink Line has some ground level running, complete with grade crossings. Pink Line train 303, with Bombardier 5000-s... (more)

Passing under the Canadian National bridge as they back onto their train are BNSF Railway ES44DC 7437, ES44C4 8079, Dash 9-44CW 5074, Dash 9-44CW 5488, Dash 9-44CW 994 and ES44DC 7651. Before lon... (more)

An arctic blast with a fast moving snow storm hit Chicago on the morning of November 11, 2019. Over 1200 flights were cancelled at the city’s airports, with one airliners sliding off the runway, ... (more)

Metra commuter train 2230 (Elgin to Chicago) departs the Bensenville, Illinois, station on a snowy November 11, 2019. This train, led by Nippon Sharyo cab car 8548, has F59PHI 73 shoving on the r... (more)

The first day of winter is still nearly two months away, but it is hard to tell as BNSF Railway coal train C-BTMCGK0-76 kicks up new-fallen snow as it passes through the Highlands station in Hinsd... (more)

On a hot, muggy August day, Southern Pacific SD45R 7406 brings an intermodal train into Tucumcari, New Mexico. Tucumcari used to be the interchange between the SP and the Rock Island. When the R... (more)

Passing a lone Joshua Tree on a bright and snowy January 1988 day, Amtrak train 35, the now-discontinued Desert Wind, threads its way through Cajon Pass's Mormon Rocks area on its way from ... (more)

A very short Santa Fe freight, the SDX headed from Barstow to San Diego, rounds the curve into Cajon on a snowy day in Cajon Pass. Up front are a pair of SDs and a GP, and on the rear is a ... cab... (more)

One-year-old Soo Line SD60 6057 was laying over in Bensenville, Illinois, on October 22.1990.