Erie-Lackawanna ticket windows at Hoboken, New Jersey, in this 1981 scene. Photograph by John F. Bjorklundmore)

Norfolk Southern U30C no. 8000 leads a westbound loaded coal train through Narlo, Ohio, on November 2, 1986. Photograph by more)

Great Northern Railway passenger power lays over at the roundhouse next to St. Paul Union Depot in the early 1960s. The F3As and E7As pictured here were used on the GN's premier trains, including ... (more)

On an overcast spring day in 1983, Burlington Northern coal trains meet at Palmer Lake, Colorado. At right is a loaded train from Wyoming's Powder River Basin, throttling up to continue its southw... (more)

An aerial view in winter 1965 of the Chicago & North Western roundhouse area at Council Bluffs, Iowa. Photograph by Wallace W. Abbey and courtesy of the more)

Westbound empty coal train passing through Kinsley, Kansas, on the Santa Fe's La Junta Subdivision in late fall 1992. The train's two warbonnet C40-8W locomotives are leading empty hoppers back to... (more)

Westbound Milwaukee Road freight train climbing the grade up from the Columbia River at Doris, Washington, on July 14, 1979. Photograph by John F. Bjorklund and courtesy of the more)

Southbound Milwaukee Road freight train climbing the steep grade out of Tacoma, Washington, on August 7, 1978. The train is passing under Interstate Five, whose entrance and exit ramps flank both ... (more)

Westbound Detroit, Toledo & Ironton freight train passing the Michigan Central station in downtown Detroit, Michigan, on September 5, 1976. The station was built in 1912-13 and remained in use unt... (more)

Westbound Erie-Lackawanna freight train powered by E8A no. 824 and three mates at Akron, Indiana, on June 28, 1975. During its final years, the E-L relegated many of its passenger-geared E-units t... (more)

Canadian Pacific Railway SW8 no. 6705 and idler cars rests beside the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario, just across from Detroit, Michigan. A tug with a car float is in the process of crossing th... (more)

Milwaukee Road "Little Joe" electric motor no. E70 leads a brace of diesels on a westbound freight train past the depot at East Portal, Montana, on July 12, 1973. The train is about to enter St. P... (more)

Two Milwaukee Road SD40-2s lead an eastbound freight train across Peedee Viaduct in Idaho's northern panhandle on July 12, 1979. The bridge is between Plummer and St. Maries, part of the "gap" tha... (more)

An eastbound BN train works through a through truss bridge and by a pair of classic signals at Mandan, ND on July 6, 1980. Photograph by John F. Bjorklund and courtesy of the more)

A steam powered suburban train emerges from the C&NW's Chicago passenger terminal (now Metra's Olgilvie Transportation Center) in this 1952 view by photographer Wallace W. Abbey. Courtesy of the <... (more)