Just after lunchtime, Rio Grande SD40T-2s leave East Carbon, Utah, passing one of Bo Huff's custom cars (looks to be a Ford product) on October 8, 2004. Until the very end, Rio Grande painted and ... (more)

A westbound Southern Pacific intermodal train (probably the DVRVF) led by Rio Grande Tunnel Motor No. 5347, cruises by the towering sandstone cliffs east of Utaline, Colorado, on the afternoon of ... (more)

Under a nice blue sky with puffy clouds, a northbound Kansas City Southern freight departs Sinton, Texas, on Union Pacific’s Brownsville Subdivision on March 14, 2013.

Two Union Pacific SD40-2s (Nos. 3303 and 3723) lead a westbound local across the eastern portion of the American Falls Bridge over the Snake River at American Falls, Idaho, on January 21, 2013.

A westbound commuter train speeds through Berwyn, Illinois, in a panned photograph made on December 23, 1988. This Metra train is led by venerable Burlington Northern E9A No. 9907, originally buil... (more)

Only a couple of days before Milwaukee Road will disappear forever, a Chicago-bound train passes Lake Tower in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on December 28, 1985. The view is from the Layton Avenue bridge... (more)

Chicago and North Western’s Janesville to Chicago freight crosses the Tiffany Bridge over Turtle Creek at Tiffany, Wisconsin, on the morning of August 12, 1995. Powering the eastbound train are th... (more)

Green, red and blue: A westbound BNSF freight exits Tunnel 4 in scenic Wind River Canyon east of Dornick, Wyoming, on October 2, 1997. Leading the colorful consist is Burlington Northern SD40-2 No... (more)

The rear platform of UPP No. 115, the business car “Selma,” is adorned with a drumhead representing the Union Pacific steam program. Seen through the latticework of window panes of the roundhouse ... (more)

The blue-winged Union Pacific logo wraps around the glossy nose of E9A No. 949 inside the Cheyenne, Wyoming, roundhouse on March 25, 2013. In the background is sister locomotive No. 951. Out of th... (more)

Inside the Cheyenne, Wyoming, roundhouse on March 25, 2013, Union Pacific’s two E9As wait for another season of pulling passenger trains. Both were built in 1955, and in the early ’90s, UP sent th... (more)

Inside the heart of a steam locomotive: Well, maybe the boiler is the heart, but perhaps we can think of the firebox as where a locomotive gets her “life.” The famous Union Pacific No. 844 gets so... (more)

Union Pacific No. 844 gets some off-season work done at the Steam Shop in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on March 25, 2013. Work is being done on the superheaters and firebox, among other things. Steam locomo... (more)

Always a favorite, Union Pacific No. 844 gets some off-season work done at the Steam Shop in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on March 25, 2013. Note the easily-seen twin stacks with the smokebox door removed a... (more)

A spotlight of sun shines brightly where it needs to be as Southern Pacific coal train with four AC4400CWs gets recrewed at Minturn, Colorado, on September 5, 1995. SP’s ACs were only a few months... (more)