A trio of Union Pacific locomotives have just cut off their coal train in the background and have crossed the state line between Illinois and Indiana, and are now passing the tower at Holman Avenu... (more)

An eastbound BNSF manifest freight with mostly tank cars filling out its consist, rolls downgrade through Big 10 Curve between Eisele and Rocky, Colorado, on the afternoon of February 13, 2016.

The last sunlight of December 3, 1988, lights up the autoracks on a Grand Trunk Western freight, led by freshly-painted GTW EMD GP38-2 No. 5721, at Blue Island, Illinois. The eastbound train is cr... (more)

A three-car Montana Rail Link Paradise local scurries eastbound along the Clark Fork at milepost 5 between Plains and Paradise, Montana, on September 25, 2009.

A southbound BNSF coal train is approaching Converse Junction on the Orin Line in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin on the afternoon of June 24, 2022.

A westbound Burlington Northern freight rumbles through Aurora, Illinois, and passes BN/Metra commuter trains laying over in Hill Yard on Saturday, April 16, 1988. The second unit on the freight i... (more)

Soo Line Train 203, led by brand new EMD SD60M No. 6060, curves through Delafield, Wisconsin, on December 10, 1989.

Montana Rail Link’s gas local cruises along the Flathead river west of Perma, Montana, on September 25, 2008. Powering the eastbound train running from Pipeline at Thompson Falls to Missoula is ... (more)

Canadian National GMD1 No. 1421, along with GP9RM No. 7055, switch the grain elevators along Low Level Road at North Vancouver, British Columbia, on September 26, 2001. The locomotive is essential... (more)

On August 8, 1991, an eastbound Burlington Northern coal train, led by new EMD SD60M No. 9297, passes the old grain elevators at Taylor, North Dakota.

In the snow-covered desert of Utah, Union Pacific’s LJP45 dirt train approaches the ECDC landfill at East Carbon on February 5, 2004. Three Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 Tunnel Motors, Nos. 5349, 5371 ... (more)

A big departure for the all-Alco/MLW roster of Arkansas & Missouri was the arrival of a trio of EMD SD70ACe locomotives in 2013. On May 7, 2014, A&M No. 72 is leading its two sisters on the freigh... (more)

A pair of Conrail EMD SD50s power CR’s Elkhart, Indiana, to Illinois Central’s Markham Yard (ELIC) freight onto the IC at Riverdale, Illinois, on December 3, 1988.

Several new GE B32BWHs, EMD F40PHs and a former GO Transit GMD GP40TC gather at Amtrak’s locomotive facility at Chicago, Illinois, on February 22, 1992.

An eastbound Union Pacific freight passes the massive red sandstone rocks of Echo Canyon just east of Echo, Utah, on February 8, 2007.