In honor of “National Beagle Day”, (I didn’t even know this was a thing, until today…) I present a photo of our Beagle named Minturn watching a BNSF coal train climb Logan Hill in Powder R... (more)

Ice is thick enough on this part of the Clark Fork as a couple of guys try there luck ice fishing, including a warming tent for set up for comfort. Not far away on the causeway just west of Trout ... (more)

As part of the overhaul of Union Pacific AC4400CW-CTE No. 5687, the still good generator is removed from the old 4,400 hp 7FDL16 prime mover, which will be mated to its new engine. The work is bei... (more)

Denver & Rio Grande 4-6-0 No. 168 has just finished climbing the east slope of Cumbres Pass as a helper on a double-headed passenger special the afternoon of August 27, 2021. The locomotive is abo... (more)

An eastbound Montana Rail Link helper set of the usual four EMD SD70ACes, drops downgrade out of Weed, Montana, and through Iron Ridge cut on MRL’s main line over Mullan Pass on June 29, 2022. T... (more)

A serendipitous sliver of sunshine illuminates three BNSF coal trains at Converse Junction, Wyoming, on the afternoon of June 25, 2022. Out on the four-track main line is a coal load that is about... (more)

Illinois Central’s SCMI freight operating from Chicago to Memphis, Tennessee, is passing one of Metra Highliner electric commuter trains at University Park, Illinois, on January 21, 1989.

After the passage of a thunderstorm, it’s still raining as a westbound BNSF unit oil train climbs the 2.2 percent grade up Mullan Pass between Austin and Weed, Montana, on the afternoon of July ... (more)

At Union Pacific’s Kansas City Locomotive Facility in Kansas City, Missouri, several UP machinists wrestle with a drawbar after installing new draft gear in the front of UPY EMD GP15-1 No. 697 o... (more)

Orange and gray Illinois Central Gulf EMD GP11 No. 8733 switches a sizable plastics manufacturing plant on the southeast side of Jacksonville, Illinois, in September 1984.

On the afternoon of June 23, 2022, a westbound (northbound) BNSF coal train follows water’s edge of the North Platte River through Wendover Canyon between Wendover and Cassa, Wyoming.

The dark, cavernous hall of Wisconsin Central’s car shop at Shops Yard in North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on a quiet Saturday of October 8, 1994. Looks like a boxcar and a bulkhead flat are among ... (more)

A freshly-painted Wisconsin Central boxcar gets finishing touches inside the car shop at the railroad’s Shop Yard complex at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on October 8, 1994. Two painters on sca... (more)

With a new crew aboard, an eastbound Burlington Northern freight is about to depart Whitefish, Montana, amid a light snowfall on March 2, 1989.

Chicago & North Western’s PRITA, a Proviso to Itasca Yard in Superior freight, curves through North Lake, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of March 30, 1991.