Conrail EMD SD50 No. 6713 leads CR’s ELKA westbound toward Chicago rumbling through the curves at New Carlisle, Indiana, at 4:10 p.m. on March 16, 1991.

A westbound BNSF Q train flies across Bridge 62 at Tuscor, Montana on July 4, 2022. This bridge spans the inlet for Swamp Creek into the Clark Fork on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision.

Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACe Nos. 4301 and 4311, power the road’s ML (Missoula to Laurel) freight through Bonita Tunnel on September 20, 2008. The tunnel is located at mile 94.6 just east of Bo... (more)

Early spring weather rolls eastward from the Medicine Bow Mountain Range and rolls over Wyoming’s Sherman Hill with gray clouds on March 25, 2008. A momentary and serendipitous break in the clou... (more)

Weather was abysmal, but the at least the subject is rare and worthy. Green Bay & Western Alco RS3 (RS3u) No. 308 leads three Fox River Valley Railroad Geeps on a northbound freight departing Nort... (more)

Rio Grande EMD GP40-2 Nos. 3126 and 3121 switch the aggregates plant at the end of Rocky Spur leaving the main line at Rocky, Colorado, on February 21, 2002. During this era, two or three Rio Gran... (more)

A BNSF grain train reflects in the Missouri River as it traces the banks of the Missouri River through Lombard Canyon just west of Lombard, Montana, on the clear afternoon of September 22, 2009. T... (more)

Rio Grande EMD GP60 No. 3154 leads Ansco’s Rio Grande Ski Train through Tunnel 29 east of Pinecliffe, Colorado, on June 24, 2000. These summer runs of the ski train often operated to special eve... (more)

Powered by a trio of EMD SD70Ms, an eastbound Union Pacific stack train exits one of the bores of Hermosa Tunnels on Track 2 east of Hermosa, Wyoming, while crossing Sherman Hill on September 12, ... (more)

Switching the Harrison Elevator Co. is Montana Rail Link’s 844 local, and it is almost at the end-of-track on the branch as it noses across the U.S. Highway 287 grade crossing at Harrison, Monta... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s 844 local takes four tankcars to CHS’ Logan Petroleum Facility just outside town off the MRL’s Fifth Subdivision on October 10, 2023.

Wisconsin Central train 49 pounds over the Wisconsin & Southern crossing at Slinger, Wisconsin, on April 14, 1997. A reminder of the past is the structure on the right that the westbound WC train ... (more)

Santa Fe EMD GP30 No. 2746 leads AT&SF train 301 into Houlihan’s Curve as it descends Edelstein Hill west of Chillicothe, Illinois, at 3:23 p.m. on May 11, 1991.

A fleet of Metra bi-level cab cars facing Chicago’s Loop with commuter trains, wait out the work day laying over at the BNSF/Metra coach yard along Canal Street at Chicago, Illinois, as seen fro... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD GP40 No. 3012 leads an eastbound BN military extra through Buda, Illinois, on the railroad’s Galesburg to Aurora main line on May 21, 1989.