A northbound BNSF coal train heads back to the Powder River Basin for loading as it traverses the ranch country around Dwyer, Wyoming, on May 3, 2007. Today, a 4,660-foot siding exists here, with ... (more)

Columbia Basin Railroad’s Connell turn climbs toward Frischknecht, Washington, after interchanging trains with the BNSF at Connell on September 28, 2021. It’s neat to see a machine built over ... (more)

Herzog ditching train HZGX 173 moves west in the siding at Crescent, Colorado, on April 24, 2007. Union Pacific has maintenance-of-way people along with the Herzog train, to do some tunnel work on... (more)

Union Pacific maintenance-of-way people meet to discuss how they are going to do some tunnel work on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision amid train traffic and a heavy snowstorm. The plan was to use a H... (more)

The goal is to have a Herzog ditching train do work in one of the tunnels west of Crescent, Colorado, on Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision on April 24, 2007—but Mother Nature has other... (more)

On July 3, 1989, an eastbound Burlington Northern coal train rolls through a curve east Newcastle, Wyoming. Powering the train are Cascade green BN EMD SD40-2 No. 6736, leading a quartet of GE loc... (more)

A race of sorts is occurring out of Ashcroft, British Columbia, on September 1, 2007. Lone Canadian National EMD SD60F No. 5554 powers an empty unit sulphur train eastbound, while on the other sid... (more)

Metra EMD F40C No. 601 leads a westbound commuter train past Tower B17 at Bensenville, Illinois, on March 3, 1990. Similar looking to Amtrak’s SDP40F, the F40C has unique corrugated side panels ... (more)

The storm that left a skiff of snow in its wake still shrouds the peaks of Glacier National Park in light snow and fog on the morning of March 1, 1992. In a different look at a popular location, T... (more)

A Canadian Pacific coal train rolls westward on Canadian National’s Ashcroft Subdivision just west of Basque, British Columbia, on the afternoon of September 1, 2007.

The water is calm along the Clark Fork on the hot afternoon of June 30, 2021, as a westbound BNSF coal train rumbles by on Montana Rail Link’s scenic Fourth Subdivision main line between Noxon a... (more)

A Santa Fe freight cruises eastbound through Toluca, Illinois, powered by EMD GP20 No. 3032, along with a GP7u and another GP20, on April 16, 1994.

On November 25, 1994, an empty Wisconsin Central unit coal/taconite ore train, operated in conjunction with Southern Pacific, curves over a trestle between Amherst Junction and Custer, and will so... (more)

A Canadian National stack train skirts the Thompson River between Spences Bridge and Seddall, British Columbia, on July 7, 2004. Powering the westbound train on CN’s Ashcroft Subdivision through... (more)

A Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range taconite ore train marches through Wales, Minnesota, on the railroad’s Iron Junction to Two Harbors route on September 30, 1989.