Led by a trio of Super Fleet GE B40-8Ws, Santa Fe’s 199 train zips out of Chillicothe, Illinois, and up Edelstein Hill at Houlihan’s Curve at 5:50 p.m. on August 31, 1991.

From the rocky rim of Wendover Canyon, our Beagle “Minturn” intently watches a BNSF coal empty roll along the North Platte River between Wendover and Cassa, Wyoming, on the afternoon of June 2... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific coal train eases down the two-percent grade at Coal Creek Canyon between Plainview and Clay, Colorado, on a snowy January 5, 2005. the head end is passing mile 22.6, whi... (more)

A westbound BNSF unit oil train, led by Kansas City Southern EMD SD70ACe No. 4114 and Union Pacific EMD SD70M No. 4936, exits Tunnel 16 in South Draw east of Crescent, Colorado, on UP’s Moffat T... (more)

During an incredibly windy, frigid and hostile springtime snowstorm in April 1984, a Rio Grande coal train led by EMD SD40T-2 No. 5349, is about to enter the 6.21-mile Moffat Tunnel departing East... (more)

An assortment of Santa Fe locomotives, as well as a set of Grand Trunk Western power off a transfer freight, gather at Santa Fe’s Corwith Yard in Chicago, Illinois, on February 9, 1991. From lef... (more)

On a sparkling morning at a snowy Heber Valley in Utah, Union Pacific 2-8-0 No. 618 storms by with a freight train at sunrise on February 7, 2006. The wintery action takes place on the Heber Valle... (more)

The conductor on a CSX transfer out of C&NW’s Proviso Yard looks back at his train rocking and rolling through the crossovers at Bellwood, Illinois, on September 1, 1991. The train is entering I... (more)

At Spire Rock, Montana, under an angry sky is a Montana Rail Link ballast train approaching the loader on October 3, 2022. A pair of MRL’s EMD SD70ACes power the train that is running on this po... (more)

A northbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight crawls up North Mason Street in Fort Collins, Colorado, on June 1, 2002. A trio of EMD SD40-2s power the train, led by repainted No. 6896.

Heading downhill at a good clip is Montana Rail Link’s Helena local bound for the lime plant at Townsend, Montana, on the afternoon of July 7, 2022. MRL EMDs Nos. 109 and 355 have the local past... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific coal train drops off the mesa that contains Big 10 Curve and is about to pass over the west switch of Rocky siding on Colorado’s Moffat Tunnel line on April 28, 2002. ... (more)

Amtrak’s California Zephyr is negotiating Byers Canyon west of Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado, on November 15, 2021.

Powered by Alco RS11 Nos. 321 and 318, a northbound Kankakee, Beaverville & Southern freight train departs Cheneyville as it trundles past Illinois farmland on the blustery spring day of April 24,... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific freight rumbles through Taggart, Utah, on February 8, 2007. The train is passing through 538-foot Tunnel 8 and crossing one of the truss bridges spanning the Weber River... (more)