A manned helper set has been added to the point of Montana Rail Link’s westbound Laurel-Missoula road freight (LM) and begins its assault of Bozeman Pass just west of Livingston, Montana, on Sep... (more)

Approaching Hermosa Tunnels while climbing the grade to Sherman Hill is an eastbound Union Pacific stack train at Hermosa, Wyoming, on September 25, 2003. Trailing lead UP EMD SD70M No. 4363 is a ... (more)

HPC EMD GP9 No. 7516 sits silently beneath the High Plains Co-Op grain elevators at Kimball, Nebraska, on September 13, 2017. This Geep is former Pennsylvania No. 7011, which later became Penn Cen... (more)

Led by venerable Montana Rail Link EMD GP9 No. 109, MRL’s Helena local rolls smartly eastward between East Helena and Winston, Montana, on the afternoon of September 29, 2022.

An old, wooden outside-braced 40-foot boxcar, likely a former Chicago, Burlington & Quincy car, is neatly utilized as part of a dwelling in the remote settlement of Bonneville, Wyoming, on June 22... (more)

Led by Santa Fe GE B23-7 No. 6406, Santa Fe’s 102 train, a Chicago to Ft. Madison long distance local, switches the yard at Streator, Illinois, on a sunny April 25, 1987.

On the morning of June 5, 1993, Burlington Northern train 144 crosses one of the truss bridges over the Sinsinawa River west of Portage, Illinois. This location is on the BN main line along the Mi... (more)

On June 24, 2018, BNSF’s HDENLAU freight passes through 370-foot Black Tunnel between the sidings of Piper and Dornick in Wyoming’s impressive Wind River Canyon on June 24, 2018.

With plenty of freight to move, and a scramble to acquire used locomotives to fill its roster, early Wisconsin Central was a colorful railroad. Three weeks after its startup, WC train 42 approache... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s 840 local, also known as the Helena local, rolls east through Lombard Canyon between Toston and Lombard, Montana, on the afternoon of June 26, 2016. The train is powered by M... (more)

Amtrak train 6, the eastbound California Zephyr, travels along the Colorado River through Burns, Colorado, between the sidings of Range and Dell on Union Pacific’s Glenwood Springs Subdivision o... (more)

Nice pair at Byron
Soaking up some of the last sunlight of the day, Soo Line train 11 and its pair of GP30s throw exhaust into the sky while topping the grade at Byron, Wisconsin, on Ju... (more)

Using the overhead crane, two machinists begin the careful lift of the old prime mover of Union Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 6704 at UP’s South Morrill Locomotive Facility on September 14, 2017. Unfo... (more)

A service track equipped with a drop pit is well lit at night at the locomotive facility of Union Pacific’s Joliet Intermodal Terminal. On this date of November 8, 2010, the intermodal yard, als... (more)

Parting clouds late in the day allow the lowering sun to momentarily illuminate a northbound (timetable westbound) BNSF freight following the North Platte River through Wyoming’s Wendover Canyon... (more)