Two Kansas City Southern trains meet at Greta, Texas, on Union Pacific’s Brownsville Subdivision on March 14, 2013. A wave from the engineer on ES44AC No. 4801 on the northbound holding the main, ... (more)

Canadian Pacific ES44AC No. 8789 leads a westbound stack train west of Spences Bridge, British Columbia, in the scenic Thompson River Canyon on September 24, 2012.

A northbound Kansas City Southern freight approaches Guadalupe, Texas, on Union Pacific’s Cuero Subdivision between Victoria and Placedo on March 13, 2013.

Union Pacific’s west local is eastbound at mile 14.5 west of Leyden, Colorado, on July 8, 2012. The Front Range of the Rockies is in the background, and is cloaked in ominous looking clouds.

On September 23, 1993, Canadian Pacific train No. 409 curves toward Mink Harbour along the spectacular shoreline of Lake Superior at Coldwell, Ontario.

Montana Rail link’s gas local rumbles through the curves just east of Perma, Montana, on September 27, 2007. Electro-Motive Division SD70ACe No. 4308 and older SD45 (MRL calls it a SD45-2) No. 355... (more)

As raindrops continue to patter and run down on the roundhouse office windows, Montana Rail Link Machinist Doug Garcia contemplates what these new EMD locomotives will mean to his job after changi... (more)

Bound for Schiller Park: A Soo Line freight heads south through Waukesha, Wisconsin, on April 20, 1985. Two SD40s and a GP38-2 take the train across West Avenue and past Prairie Home Cemetery in t... (more)

Several TTX flatcars loaded with brand-new Oshkosh Corporation MRAP All-terrain vehicles (M-ATV) are heading south through Sussex, Wisconsin, on April 22, 2010, on Canadian National’s former Wisco... (more)

Norfolk Southern grain train No. 52A rumbles southbound over the truss bridge at Walton, Kentucky, on August 12, 2012. This bridge crosses over CSX’s “Short Line.”

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)