Westbound train crosses Missouri River at dusk.

Unit train MAR shuttled pelletized iron ore between the mine at Pea Ridge and Lone Star Steel in East Texas.

The tracks on First Street were among the oldest in Michigan - the right-of-way of the Southern Michigan Railroad chartered by the state in 1837.

Friends and fans lined about every grade crossing on the train's way to Saginaw.

Eastbound train skirts the Missouri River bluffs near Rocheport, Mo.

Westbound TOFC along the limestone bluffs overlooking the Missouri River bottoms.

Locomotive numbers reflected in yardmaster's office window

Crossing Illinois Central diamond on TP&W.

700 miles from Roanoke. The J walks across the Missouri River for the first time on an excursion from St. Louis to Moberly, Mo., on a former Wabash line.

Unseasonably warm temperatures that Friday morning created a fog bank over Southeast Michigan. DT&I 204 pulls a string of cars from Flat Rock to Ford's River Rouge Plant in Dearborn. Concrete arch... (more)