Just south of Crabtree, Oregon, on September 27, 2016, an Albany & Eastern Railroad log train has just crossed Oregon State Highway 226 leaving town. The train is returning from the Teevin Bros. l... (more)

Santa Fe red-and-silver Warbonnets can be seen on a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight at Rollinsville, Colorado, on the afternoon of July 29, 2000.

Conrail EMD SD40-2 No. 6394 and SD50 No. 6737 roll through a curve with a westbound freight at Hudson Lake, Indiana, at 1:04 p.m. on September 10, 1988.

From the cab of Wisconsin Central EMD SD45 No. 6520 pulling a passenger special is a view of a meet with a northbound WC freight led by WC SD45 6502 roaring by on the main at March, Wisconsin, on ... (more)

An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight exits Tunnel 1 and fills the horseshoe curve at the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon as it drops downgrade between Plain and Clay, Colorado, on a dry Ja... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s MMISLAU freight, also known simply as the ML, heads downgrade passing milepost 215 on Winston Hill between Winston and Townsend, Montana, on October 14, 2023. Leading the tra... (more)

Powered by new Union Pacific EMD SD70M No. 4926, a westbound UP Office Car Special exits Tunnel 18 east of Crescent, Colorado, on June 10, 2002.

A trio of Wisconsin Central EMD SD45s get a clear at Duplainville, Wisconsin, and smoke it up as they haul a WC ore train toward Chicago on August, 29, 1992.

An eastbound BNSF double empty train, consisting of a unit grain and a unit oil train, rolls downgrade through Austin Montana, while the road’s QALTPTL6-23D ascends Mullan Pass on the adjoining ... (more)

EMD built 54 1,800 hp SD18 locomotives, built for Bessemer & Lake Erie, Chesapeake & Ohio, Chicago & Illinois Midland, Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range, and Reserve Mining. They were constructed with ... (more)

On October 3, 2022, clouds are quickly building over Homestake Pass as a Montana Rail Link ballast empty works upgrade to the loader at Spire Rock at Pipestone, Montana. The train is running on a ... (more)

Columbia Basin Railroad Wheeler turn switches cars at milepost 1 west of Wheeler, Washington, on September 29, 2021. The train is powered by a pair of EMD SD9s, both of which can trace their ances... (more)

Eastbound and westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freights meet at Leyden, Colorado, on Union Pacific’s former Rio Grande Moffat Tunnel main line west of Denver on February 19, 2002. The east... (more)

A rugged Mission Range looms over Montana Rail Link’s night gas local rolling westbound along the Flathead River past milepost 44 near Dixon at McDonald, Montana, on June 26, 2020.

A quartet of Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACes being used on one of the helper sets out of Helena, Montana, for Mullan Pass drops downgrade after helping a westbound BNSF heavy (coal or grain train) ... (more)