Union Pacific 2-8-0 No. 618 pulls a freight train past an icy cold “Jake’s Pond” near Charleston, Utah, on a winter photo freight operated by Heber Valley Railroad on February 7, 2007.

A heavy BNSF coil steel unit train snakes westbound through multiple curves approaching the west switch of Bealville, California, on a sunny March 1, 2016.

An eastbound Chicago Central & Pacific train, led by former Illinois Central Gulf GP10 No. 8134, crosses the mighty Mississippi River at East Dubuque, Illinois, on July 20, 1991. CC&P was formed i... (more)

Late on the afternoon of June 20, 2017, a southbound BNSF freight emerges from 177-foot Tunnel 4 in Wind River Canyon between Dornick and Piper, Wyoming, on BNSF’s Casper Subdivision.

A Union Pacific coal empty works westbound through Clay, Colorado, on the stormy afternoon of June 2, 2007. Big 10 Curve and downtown Denver can be seen above the pair of GE AC4400CW locomotives l... (more)

A Montana Rail Link “Jimbo” work train slowly departs the siding at Plains, Montana, and begins picking up old ties laying along the right-of-way after the passage of a tie gang on May 12, 2021. H... (more)

A westbound BNSF grain train follows the Missouri River through Lombard Canyon east of Toston, Montana, on the clear morning of June 26, 2016.

On October 20, 2015, an eastbound Deseret Power Railway empty unit coal train rolls through the curve at milepost 24 in colorful Coyote Basin, Utah.

Union Pacific ES44AC No. 5401 gets lettered, striped and “Scotchlited” inside the paint shop at the Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 18, 2015. Skilled workers like Carm... (more)

Union Pacific EMD SD70ACe No. 1943 leads a westbound passenger train (office car special) on UP’s former Rio Grande Moffat Tunnel route west of Rocky, Colorado, on August 21, 2019.

An eastbound Chicago Central & Pacific coal train rumbles through Joliet, Illinois, on February 22, 1989. CC&P was formed on August 27, 1986, to operate Illinois Central’s Chicago to Omaha, Nebras... (more)

Southbound BNSF stack train STACOMA (Tacoma to Omaha) emerges from within the rocky confines of Sheep Canyon north of Greybull, Wyoming, on June 21, 2017.

Union Pacific employees Michael Liles and James L. Pemberton prepare a new traction motor/wheel assembly on the wheel track at UP’s Kansas City Locomotive Facility on October 21, 2013. The new axl... (more)

Snow is falling on stormy-looking Book Cliffs in the background as Union Pacific’s LJP45 “dirt train” local rolls into brilliant sunshine as it passes through Banning, Utah, on February 5, 2004. T... (more)

New prime mover
An EMD 16 710G3C prime mover is carefully lowered onto the frame of Union Pacific SD70ACe No. 8382 on May 18, 2015, at UP’s Downing B. Jenks Shop in North Little Rock, A... (more)