It’s 10:05 p.m. as an eastbound BNSF unit train slinks its way through Lombard Canyon and past illuminated Toston Dam between Toston and Lombard, Montana. Even at this late hour, the pretty suns... (more)

Amtrak’s Chicago, Illinois, locomotive facility hosts Grand Trunk Western EMD GP40-2 No. 6413 amongst the usual plethora of Amtrak EMD F40PH locomotives on September 1, 1991.

With stormy looking clouds to the west, a southbound BNSF freight makes its way through Himes Canyon just north of Himes, Wyoming, on BNSF’s Casper Subdivision at 5:29 a.m. on the morning of Jun... (more)

With a hot rail on the adjoining main line, a UP construction crew working on a new concrete bridge over Southwest Branch of Big Papillion, stands by in the clear of the intermodal train.

Union Pacific GE 7945 leads a westbound manifest freight past the old siding switch for West Kennard, Nebraska, on August, 15, 2012. A UP construction crew works on the new bridge over Southwest B... (more)

Union Pacific EMD SD70ACe No. 8834 and EMD SD70M No. 4261 lead a loaded coal train through Converse Junction and begin the climb of Logan Hill in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin on June 21, 2019.

While being serviced on the afternoon of August 30, 2021, after taking a train to Cascade and back, Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad’s K-28 2-8-2 No. 473 rotates on the turntable at Dur... (more)

Powered by five Cascade green locomotives, Burlington Northern train 161 begins its trip west as it departs Cicero passing the tower on the far west end of Clyde Yard approaching LaVergne, Illinoi... (more)

With dynamic brake grids needing replacing in Union Pacific GE C44-9W No. 9666, a machinist in UP’s Kansas City Locomotive Facility prepares to perform this maintenance up on the access panels o... (more)

Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western’s “Corn Train” rolls through Falkirk, North Dakota, approaching milepost 511 on the railroad’s Missouri Valley Subdivision on August 29, 2018. The train i... (more)

An eastbound “Rockies to the Red Rocks” Rocky Mountaineer luxury passenger train passes through Gore Canyon between Azure and Gore, Colorado, on Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision dur... (more)

On August 4, 2014, lone EMD SD70ACe No. 8657 trails an eastbound UP coal load headed east through Little Gore Canyon between Radium and Azure, Colorado.

A trio of Union Pacific GE AC4400CWs are working as a mid-train DPU on an eastbound UP coal train negotiating Little Gore Canyon between Radium and Azure, Colorado, on August 4, 2014.

A Union Pacific coal train rolls eastbound above the Colorado River through Little Gore Canyon between Radium and Azure, Colorado, on August 4, 2014.

A cut of Kennecott Copper Corporation acid cars head east on a BNSF manifest freight at mile 14.5 on Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision west of Leyden, Colorado, on March 10, 2013.