The Airbnb vacation home we rented in Montana had an outdoor fire pit perfect for hanging out, enjoying a beer and grilling brats over an open fire. An added attraction is a westbound BNSF train g... (more)

Montana Rail Link EMD SD40-2XR No. 262 powers a MRL “Jimbo” work train through East Helena, Montana, moments after departing Helena Yard on October 16, 2023.

On September 27, 2023, an eastbound Union Pacific unit oil train slowly heads downgrade out of Pinecliffe, Colorado, following South Boulder Creek into the Tunnel District.

Norfolk Southern EMD SD70ACe Reading heritage No. 1067 leads coal train 77J through New Albany, Indiana, on the afternoon of August 9, 2012.

In a view from Roosevelt Road overpass, Metra MP36PH-3S No. 402 powers a Metra commuter train at Chicago, Illinois, on April 17, 2009.

An eastbound Union Pacific oil train has come to a stop in the siding at Tolland, Colorado, as the “Rockies to the Red Rocks” Rocky Mountaineer passenger train scurries by on the main line on ... (more)

Colorado’s Joint Line, when it was relocated around Denver Union Station, was once out in the open. But no longer, as can be seen by this southbound BNSF coal train growling through an urban can... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s 844 local switches cars at the Harrison Elevator Co. at the end of the railroad’s Harrison branch on October 10, 2023.

Montana Rail Link’s Billings Transfer departs Laurel Yard on the morning of October 8, 2023. The train is powered by MRL SD40-2XR Nos. 263 and 259 and has a substantial amount of cars for Billin... (more)

After a relaxing night camping along the Clark Fork over the Fourth of July holiday, Minturn the Beagle watches a Montana Rail Link train roll by on the morning of July 5, 2023. We didn’t expect... (more)

A westbound BNSF Office Car Special meets an eastbound BNSF grain train at Muir, Montana, on Montana Rail Link’s main line over Bozeman Pass on October 7, 2023. This is a deadhead move west as c... (more)

A westbound BNSF Office Car Special climbs Bozeman Pass just east of Muir, Montana, on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision main line on October 7, 2023. This deadhead move is also transportin... (more)

Bi-level Metra Highliner-equipped commuter trains sit at the end of the former Illinois Central electric main line out of Chicago at University Park, Illinois, on the morning of May 9, 1992. The H... (more)

A CSX freight, led by EMD GP15T No. 1515, works out of Dolton at Riverdale, Illinois, on the afternoon of March 19, 1988.

On the service tracks at Union Pacific’s Bailey Yard locomotive facility, an employee inspects UP GE AC4400CW No. 7129 as prior to being serviced on May 4, 2011.