An eastbound BNSF coal empty approaches Trident, Montana, along the Missouri River on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision on September 26, 2007.

The southbound Napa Valley Wine Train leaves the Grgich Hills Winery stop in a cloud of black smoke, like any self-respecting Alco/MLW should, north of Rutherford, California, on March 13, 2006. T... (more)

An eastbound Southern Pacific unit coal train of CTRN hoppers claws up Tennessee Pass in the canyon between Redcliff and Pando, Colorado, on the afternoon of September 4, 1995. The SP GE AC4400CWs... (more)

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe EMD FP45 No. 90 rests at the Corwith Yard engine facility near Chicago, Illinois, on Labor Day weekend in 1991. This locomotive certainly had its share of renumberings ... (more)

A coal train drops downgrade at the old Mitchell siding location just west of Tennessee Pass, Colorado, in July 1984. Denver & Rio Grande Western SD40T-2 No. 5409 leads four Missouri Pacific SD40-... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s Paradise Local rumbles along the Clark Fork just west of Eddy (east of Thompson Falls), Montana, on January 24, 2013. A build-up of ice on the rocks on the edges of a cove alon... (more)

Rogers Pass coal: A Canadian Pacific coal train emerges from the Mount Macdonald Tunnel over Rogers Pass, British Columbia, on a beautiful September 25, 2012 afternoon. The longest railroad tunnel... (more)

Clear block into the blue: Passing one of Northern Pacific’s classic cantilevered searchlight signals at the east end of Laurel Yard on the evening of January 27, 2013, a departing BNSF coal train... (more)

On March 14, 2002, the Grand Canyon Railway train has arrived at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. The passenger train is led by a matched set of Alco-designed Montreal Locomotive Work... (more)

A unit oil train is framed through the empty window of an abandoned Sinclair gas station along old U.S. 30 through James Town near Green River, Wyoming, on the afternoon of March 12, 2012. Sunset ... (more)

Windermere reflections: Canadian Pacific’s Royal Canadian Pacific luxury excursion train is heading south out of Golden, British Columbia at McMurdo on the beautiful Windermere Subdivision on Sept... (more)

An Alco built in 1962, Chicago and North Western RS-32 now decked out in Zito Yellow, switches Green Bay, Wisconsin, on April 27, 1985.

Arizona & California’s eastbound freight approaches Chubbuck, California, on March 16, 2004. The Ship Mountains dominate the background at this desolate location in the Mojave Desert. Powering the... (more)

An eastbound Wisconsin and Southern passenger train waits patiently at the Crawford diamond just east of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, on May 19, 1996. A westbound Burlington Northern freight led b... (more)

A Canadian Pacific stack train exits the tunnel in Black Canyon west of Ashcroft, British Columbia, on June 25, 2006. Two GE AC4400CWs power the train, led by No. 9707. The Canadian National line ... (more)