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)

Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western’s “Corn Train” rumbles through through a curve approaching the town of Wilton, North Dakota, on the railroad’s Missouri Valley Subdivision on August 29, 2... (more)

A Montana Rail Link “Jimbo” work train works its way downgrade out of Weed, Montana, on June 30, 2021. Leading the way east is former MRL caboose, now shoving platform No. 1007.

Lone BNSF GE ES44C4 No. 8036 leads an eastbound grain empty through Lombard Canyon east of Toston, Montana, on the morning of July 9, 2022.

Amtrak EMD SW8 No 749 switches some Heritage Fleet passenger cars on the tracks adjoining the railroad’s Chicago, Illinois, locomotive facility in a view from the 18th Street overpass on Februar... (more)

A quartet of Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACe being used as a manned helper for trains climbing Mullan Pass out of Helena, Montana, heads back to town at Austin after helping a train up the pass on t... (more)

An eastbound Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range taconite train rumbles through Brimson, Minnesota, on the trip to the ore dock at Two Harbors on September 30, 1989.

Fast moving clouds part just long enough to let the sun illuminate a northbound BNSF coal empty cruising over Logan Hill in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin on June 25, 2022.

A Montana Rail Link helper set arrives at Helena Yard on July 1, 2020. Quite a few blue MRL locomotives are present—three helper sets, the Helena local power and MRL’s Laurel to Missoula freig... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific coal train heads downgrade through Tolland, Colorado, on the sunny morning of September 25, 2000.

On September 15, 2002, the Royal Canadian Pacific luxury passenger train rolls through a broad curve north of Aldersyde, Alberta, on the CP’s Aldersyde Subdivision between Lethbridge and Calgary... (more)

Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr traces the Colorado River through scenic Ruby Canyon between Shale and Utaline, Colorado, on the afternoon of June 23, 2021. The Sightseer Lounge would be a ... (more)