Chicago, Burlington & Quincy EMD E5 No. 9911-A and the Nebraska Zephyr Budd-built streamliner trainset rests in a siding at Burlington, Wisconsin, on the night of September 29, 1993. This classy Z... (more)

An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight drops downgrade through Skyline, Montana, while crossing Montana Rail Link’s Mullan Pass west of Helena, on July 6, 2001.

Canadian National EMD SD40 No. 5013 leads eastbound CN train 340 through Genoa, Wisconsin, on Burlington Northern’s main line along a frozen Mississippi River on February 27, 1993.

After changing crews, a westbound Union Pacific intermodal train begins the climb of Peru Hill at Green River, Wyoming, on September 26, 2020.

Wisconsin Central train 45 works out of Ackerville, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of June 11, 1996. Powering the westbound train is a pair of EMD F45 “cowls”, Nos. 6650 and 6653, along with a ne... (more)

On October 18, 2018, a long string of BNSF EMD SD70MAC locomotives is in long-term storage alongside BNSF’s yard between Donkey Creek and Rozet, Wyoming, on the railroad’s Black Hills Subdivis... (more)

A Soo Line grain extra storms westbound through Brookfield, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of April 19, 1987. When built in July 1973, Milwaukee Road EMD SD40-2 No. 16, was originally numbered 177, b... (more)

Getting out of St. Regis before dawn, we headed to some of Montana Rail Link’s last Northern Pacific-era semaphores east of town. Magic colors appeared as a rising sun finally peaked over the ta... (more)

On June 27, 2020, a westbound BNSF coal train arcs through the curved fill along the Clark Fork between Noxon and Heron, Montana, on Montana Rail Link’s scenic Fourth Subdivision.

Crossing the expansive Great Salt Lake basin on Union Pacific’s former Southern Pacific main line, an eastbound UP freight approaches Lakeside, Utah, on March 5, 2012.

After overextending themselves acquiring Milwaukee Road, Soo Line established a wholly-owned division called Lake States Transportation Division on 10 February 1986, to operate its mostly former S... (more)

Led by Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACe No. 4315, MRL’s eastbound Helena local traces the Missouri River into Lombard Canyon east of Toston, Montana, on June 29, 2016.

Santa Fe’s 791 train, led by GE B40-8W No. 506, sprints around the curve into Ancona, Illinois, at 2:44 p.m. on May 30, 1992.

Passing another train that is tied down in a siding, a westbound Southern Pacific freight, led by Cotton Belt GE B40-8 No. 8080, approaches Tucson at Wilmot, Arizona, on the afternoon of April 21,... (more)

Chicago Central’s train 51 pops out of the curved tunnel at East Dubuque, Illinois, and is about to clatter over the crossing of Burlington Northern’s main line on the autumn afternoon of Octo... (more)