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)

Montana Rail Link’s 840 local, the Helena local, has returned. The train operates out of Helena on weekdays and serves the cement plants at Montana City and Townsend. On June 25, 2020, MRL GP9 No.... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific freight curves toward Borie, Wyoming, at milepost 518 on Track 1 following the original alignment over Sherman Hill. The stark snow-covered scenery doesn’t divulge that t... (more)

On the afternoon of May 28, 2000, Santa Fe GE C40-8W No. 846, along with a pair of Heritage II C44-9Ws, leads a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest out of Rocky Colorado. The train is ... (more)

Amtrak’s California Zephyr has just passed through Tunnel 1 and approaches Plainview, Colorado, where an eastbound Union Pacific coal train waits in the siding for the meet on September 4, 2000.

An eastbound Union Pacific unit potash train cruises by Dale Junction over Track 1 on September 17, 2008. The rear of the train is at actual junction with Track 3, seen curving off to the left, bu... (more)

Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 201 rests on the pass-through track from the turntable as a shop employee walks between the two roundhouse buildings at the locomotive facility of Wisconsin Centra... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s Stockton to Denver manifest is about to pass the DPUs of a loaded Union Pacific coal train tied down in Rocky siding on the afternoon of April 28, 2002. In the late ... (more)