Still adorned in Illinois Central Gulf orange-and-white colors, Chicago Central & Pacific GP8 No. 7985 and GP10 No. 8188 lead a CC train around a curve at 55th Street Interlocking on the Belt Rail... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD SD60M No. 9249 leads a coal train toward Alliance, Nebraska, at East Bonner on July 25, 1992.

A westbound Union Pacific freight slowly makes its way upgrade on Peru Hill between Green River and Peru, Wyoming, on the morning of June 26, 2021.

All the westbound BNSF heavies have been pushed up Mullan Pass at night into first light before a long work window begins west of Helena, Montana, on July 7, 2022. The last Montana Rail Link helpe... (more)

An eastbound BNSF freight heads up the Clark Fork River Valley on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision main line between Heron and Noxon, Montana, on the afternoon of February 24, 2015. I bit ... (more)

Chicago & North Western EMD GP15-1 No. 4410 and EMD GP7 No. 4144 tug at a long string of coal gons out of the east end of Proviso Yard on September 1, 1991. The train is approaching the 25th Avenu... (more)

Colorado & Southern 3-foot narrow gauge boxcar No. 8311 displays its weathered billboard lettering at Como, Colorado, on the afternoon of August 24, 2021.

This roundhouse was built in 1881 by Italian stonemasons for the Denver, South Park & Pacific Railway as part of the facilities needed for their division point of Como, Colorado. The original six-... (more)

On the afternoon of November 12, 2001, a Canadian Pacific freight pulled by lone CP GE AC4400CW No. 8630, rumbles westbound through Duplainville, Wisconsin. In the 2000s, the Soo Line Railroad and... (more)

Powered by a nice set of Cascade green EMD SD40-2s, GE C30-7s and a GE U30C, an eastbound Burlington Northern coal load makes its way out of Newcastle, Wyoming, on July 3, 1989. Afternoon thunders... (more)

Brand-new Burlington Northern Santa Fe EMD SD70MAC No. 9840 makes its first revenue run down Colorado’s Joint Line at Greenland on a cold December 11, 1997. Weird to think that orange paint was ... (more)

On the morning of August 22, 2021, BNSF’s 23rd Street locomotive facility in Denver, Colorado, has plenty of modern GE power, along with a smattering of EMD locomotives waiting for servicing or ... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD E9 No. 9907 sits alongside two of its replacements—Metra EMD F40PHM-2 Nos. 189 and 191—at Hill Yard in Aurora, Illinois, on February 22, 1992. Metra bought 30 of these ... (more)

Nearing the summit of Logan Hill in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin is a southbound Union Pacific coal train grinding up the grade late in the afternoon of June 25, 2022.

Three Rio Grande Tunnel Motors on Union Pacific’s LJP45 local are picking up a cut of cars at the east end of Sutro siding on the west side of the Soldier summit grade. During this moment in ti... (more)