A Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight approaches Thompson Falls, Montana, on September 17, 2006. Leading the eastbound manifest on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision is former Santa Fe GE B40... (more)

On the morning of July 17, 1985, a westbound Santa Fe intermodal train hustles over Bridge 874.2 at the west end of Abo Canyon at Sais, New Mexico. Powering the train are four models—an EMD SD40-2... (more)

Six minutes behind Santa Fe’s 881 train, a trio of “hot rod” GP60Ms speed the 791 train eastbound out of Ancona, Illinois, at 5:38 p.m. on May 9, 1992, seen in a panned photograph. When was the ne... (more)

Canadian National SD40s powering a Milwaukee Road freight passes a trio of Burlington Northern SD40-2s at Hoffman Avenue below Dayton’s Bluff in St. Paul Minnesota, in September 1984.

A quartet of Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 Tunnel Motors power Union Pacific’s LJP45 “dirt train” past mile 607.4 east of Wash, Utah, on February 4, 2003. The train is hauling contaminated dirt and munic... (more)

GE locomotives in three different BNSF paint schemes lead an eastbound manifest freight across the Clark Fork between Thompson Falls and Belknap, Montana, on October 15, 2017, casting an almost pe... (more)

Two Union Pacific coal trains meet on the four-track main line through Converse Junction on the Orin Line in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin on the afternoon of May 29, 2009.

On February 25, 1999, a southbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train rumbles past a stately barn located at Greenland on a more rural portion of Colorado’s Joint Line. Because of its proximi... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight curves into Crescent, Colorado, during a high-country springtime snowstorm on April 22, 2001. Lead BNSF C44-9W No. 4558 is an unfortunate ... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern coal train emerges from under the former Milwaukee Road bridge at Terry, Montana, on the afternoon of July 26, 1992. Both routes are operated by BN, now BNSF, with ... (more)

Before Union Pacific went ‘everywhere west’ like it does now, it interchanged a great deal of traffic to Southern Pacific in Ogden, Utah, bound to and from Central California. With imposing mounta... (more)

A pair of Union Pacific’s 6,000 horsepower SD90MAC-H locomotives grind away with a southbound freight approaching Tunnel 2 at Bealville, California. The train is in the middle of a long climb of T... (more)

An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight soars over 797-foot Marent Trestle east of Evaro, Montana, on the afternoon of July 2, 2000. This is Montana Rail Link’s tallest bridge at 226 fee... (more)

On the morning of March 23, 2002, the westbound Rio Grande Ski Train rolls through the curves exiting Tunnel 1 just east of Plainview, Colorado.

A Burlington Northern Santa Fe double-stack train heads east at Grizzly, Montana, on the beautiful spring morning of June 4, 2002. The snow-covered peaks of Glacier National Park dominate the back... (more)