A Canadian National coal empty rolls through the 7,037-foot siding at Embarras, Alberta, on railroad’s Foothills Subdivision on August 8, 2016.

A pair of Indiana Harbor Belt EMD SW1500s power a northbound IHB freight approaching the Santa Fe main line diamonds at McCook, Illinois, on September 13, 1986.

BNSF’s Cowley turn out of Greybull, Wyoming is running northbound through otherworldly landscape along the Bighorn River between Spence and Himes on the morning of June 24, 2019.

A westbound Canadian National trackage rights train on Burlington Northern, now the newly formed Burlington Northern Santa Fe, rolls out of Chicago at Highlands, Illinois, and is greeted by good f... (more)

A fascinating maze of trackage outside Chicago Union Station is about to be negotiated by an outbound Metra commuter train on April 17, 2009.

A westbound Conrail stack train creates its own snowstorm as it rolls through New Carlisle, Indiana, in lake-effect snowfall from frigid temperatures blowing off Lake Michigan on January 15, 1994.

Burlington Northern local freight 11451 rolls smartly through Highlands, Illinois, powered by a pair of leased former Reserve Mining EMD SD38-2s on a sunny March 15, 1992.

Powered by a pair of brand new GE ES44C4s, Florida East Coast train 226-11 curves through St. Augustine, Florida, on January 12, 2015.

A westbound Union Pacific passenger special crosses the Colorado River as it approaches Burns, Colorado, running over the Dotsero Cutoff on August 3, 2014. Powering the nine-car train is EMD SD70A... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern detour heads west on Chicago & North Western’s Adams line in Wisconsin. On the afternoon of June 25, 1993, BN GP39E No. 2766 leads two GE cabless B30-7ABs leads t... (more)

Crossing Wyoming’s Sherman Hill on the afternoon of September 12, 2007, is a westbound Union Pacific stack train, passing through one of the Hermosa Tunnels on Track 2.

Daytime work windows for Montana Rail Link track gangs have made Mullan Pass west of Helena, Montana, a busy place late in the afternoon, as trains waiting out the curfew begin to move. As a westb... (more)

A westbound BNSF coal train climbing Mullan Pass west of Helena, Montana, is about to meet an eastbound BNSF freight at the siding of Austin very late in the afternoon of June 29, 2021. Both train... (more)

BNSF’s local that operates south (east) out of Greybull makes a trip through Wind River Canyon on June 28, 2021, moments after passing through Tunnel 4 between Dornick and Piper, Wyoming. In 202... (more)

A trio of CSX Transportation EMD locomotives in three paint schemes pause at Burlington Northern’s Clyde Yard locomotive facility in Cicero, Illinois, on February 9, 1992. Resting closer to the ... (more)