At one time, Union Pacific interchanged a great deal of traffic to Southern Pacific in Ogden, Utah, bound to and from Central California. On February 23, 1985, UP and SP locomotives wait while a t... (more)

On September 24, 2015, a westbound Canadian Pacific coal train snakes along the rocky edge of the Thompson River in Black Canyon west of Ashcroft, British Columbia. On the other side of the river ... (more)

Three brand-new BNSF EMD SD70ACes lead an eastbound coal train descending the Front Range of the Rockies at Coal Creek Canyon between Plainview and Clay, Colorado, on May 5, 2014.

VIA Rail’s eastbound Canadian curves along the shore of Brule Lake at Swan Landing, Alberta, on July 13, 2013. EMD F40PH-3 Nos. 6427 and 6410 power the 21-car streamliner eastbound on Canadian Nat... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s Spokane to Great Falls freight train rumbles past the old wooden grain elevator at Vaughn, Montana, on September 5, 1998. Vaughn is 12.3 miles west of Great Falls on... (more)

On a wintery February 4, 2004, Union Pacific’s Grand Junction, Colorado, to Salt Lake City manifest freight climbs the grade over Soldier Summit at Kyune, Utah.

A Union Pacific coal train has just about finished unloading at the Xcel Energy Hayden Station power plant located on a short spur off the Craig Branch just east of the east switch of Dawson sidin... (more)

Plowing snow between Dalton, New Mexico, and Cresco, Colorado is Cumbres & Toltec Rotary OY and outfit train on the afternoon of February 29, 2020. Pushing the steam-powered plow is K-36 Nos. 487 ... (more)

Freeport-McMoRan EMD GP38/38-2 locomotives work hard on a train of loaded acid tank cars curving through corral cut while climbing the steep three to five percent grade from the Arizona Eastern Ra... (more)

A pair of Union Pacific’s abundant GE AC4400CWs lead an eastbound coal train out of the 6.21-mile Moffat Tunnel at East Portal, Colorado, during the peak of autumn color in the high country on Oct... (more)

On October 25, 2020, a pair of GE B40-8s on an Arizona Eastern Railway job, switches boxcars used to ship copper cathodes and anodes at the smelter of Freeport McMoRan’s Miami Operations near Glob... (more)

After a rainy and cold day in the high desert country of Arizona, the sun breaks out briefly late in the afternoon, illuminating the scene in golden light, as the Arizona Eastern Railway South Sid... (more)

A Freeport McMoRan train passes through a cut and heads downgrade just past the Corral Road grade crossing between Morenci and Clifton, Arizona, on October 22, 2020. Up front in the train are gond... (more)

A Union Pacific Operation Lifesaver Special pauses at La Salle, Colorado, on April 27, 2006. The train will make several trips on the railroad’s Greeley Subdivision and is powered by a pair of EMD... (more)

A pair of GE ET44C4s lead an eastbound BNSF oil train over the Clark Fork west of Noxon, Montana, on October 2, 2020.