An Amtrak baggage car No. 1222 is tied down after being set out by Amtrak train 5, the westbound California Zephyr at Denver Union Station on February 26, 1987. That’s a pretty snazzy Amtrak jacke... (more)

LMX GE B39-8 No. 8536 leads an eastbound Burlington Northern grain train over the Java Bridge over the Middle Fork of the Flathead River at Java, Montana, while climbing Marias Pass on March 1, 19... (more)

Four of a kind
On BNSF, the locomotive road number doesn’t get any bigger than this. On September 21, 2009, BNSF EMD SD70MAC No. 9999 is the trailing DPU on the rear of a coal train cl... (more)

It’s beginning to snow as nightfall settles in over East Ely, Nevada, on February 6, 2005. Nevada Northern 2-8-0 No. 93 rests on a track in the yard as NNRy Alco RS3 No. 109 brings a freight train... (more)

In a view from above West Cordero Junction, a Union Pacific coal train passes by with a lone DPU locomotive on the rear of the train at Haire, Wyoming, on June 30, 2002. In the background is a por... (more)

A southbound Union Pacific coal train approaches West Cordero Junction at a location once known as Haire on the Orin Subdivision in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin on June 30, 2002.

Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 Tunnel Motor No. 5349 leads Union Pacific’s Denver to Salt Lake City manifest freight at Leyden, Colorado, on the eve of December 28, 2000.

On Burlington Northern’s triple-track main line from Chicago to Aurora, another commuter train, or “dinky” as they are called locally, heads west on Track 1 at Highlands, Illinois, on August 2, 19... (more)

Led by Union Pacific EMD SD40-2 No. 3391, an eastbound UP double stack train notches it up as it curves out of Dale Junction and heads for Dale on Sherman Hill’s Track 1 in July 1984.

Surrounded by craggy and arresting rock cliffs, a northbound BNSF freight led by SD70ACe No. 9235 approaches the south switch of Dornick siding in Wyoming’s Wind River Canyon on June 24, 2018.

St. Maries yard
After switching the PotlatchDeltic mill on the west side of town, St. Maries River Railroad SW1200 No. 501 rolls slowly through the empty yard at St. Maries on the way b... (more)

The hydraulic wings of a spreader work great to push snow far back from the track. With the blades on the nose adjusted to push snow all to one side, Southern Pacific spreader MW 4034 cleans wet s... (more)

A BNSF coal load passes a Union Pacific empty on top of Logan Hill north of Bill, Wyoming, at 8:00 p.m. on June 21, 2020. The Orin Line isn’t as busy as it used to be, and at the time of this phot... (more)

Rumble through Champion
A northbound Canadian Pacific freight passes the grain elevators at Champion, Alberta, on CP’s Aldersyde Subdivision running between Lethbridge and Calgary on Se... (more)

The great expanse of the San Luis Valley surrounds a tiny Rio Grande local freight headed from Alamosa to Antonito at Estrella, Colorado, on the morning of May 24, 1991. Even though it doesn’t loo... (more)