The sun is low to the horizon in Powder River Basin as a Union Pacific coal empty growls over Logan Hill north of Bill, Wyoming, on the eve of July 2, 2016.

Seaboard System Railroad EMD SD40-2 No. 8204 rests with several Soo Line and Canadian Pacific SD40-2s at Soo’s former Milwaukee Road locomotive facility at Bensenville Yard, Illinois, on Septemb... (more)

A trio of dirty Missouri Pacific EMD SD40-2s sit at the locomotive facility in Yard Center at Dolton, Illinois, on August 10, 1986.

Melting snow has left a skiff of water on top of the ice over Frog Pond along the Clark Fork at Trout Creek, Montana, on February 4, 2023—just enough water to capture a soft reflection of a BNSF... (more)

Coors Brewing Company EMD SW900 No. C987 waits for more tasks at Golden, Colorado, on November 21, 2005. This 900 hp switcher was originally built as an EMD SW in May 1938 for Rock Island, and was... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD SW1000 switchers Nos. 394 and 393 haul a BN transfer freight through West Hoffman past Dayton’s Bluff in St. Paul, Minnesota, in September 1984. Both locomotives were bui... (more)

BNSF’s Cody local switches at Powell, Wyoming, on June 28, 2018. The eastbound train is headed for the connection to BNSF’s Casper Subdivision at Frannie, and is powered by GP38-3R No. 2392 an... (more)

Chicago & North Western EMD SD18 No. 6633 shows off its new paint job at the railroad’s Proviso Yard locomotive facility at Proviso, Illinois on the morning of March 15, 1992. C&NW acquired a gr... (more)

A westbound Rocky Mountaineer Railtours passenger train gets a moment of sunshine approaching the west switch of Yarmony siding east of Bond, Colorado, on November 14, 2021. This is the first year... (more)

A quintet of Cascade green Burglinton Northern motors power a westbound BN coal train through Orella, Nebraska, on July 3, 1989. Orella is located at milepost 440 between Joder and Ardmore on the ... (more)

CSX GE C40-8W No. 7354, along with National Railway Equipment Leasing EMD SD40-2 Nos. 7352 and 7351, sit at Union Pacific’s Joliet Intermodal Terminal’s locomotive facility on November 10, 201... (more)

A westbound Canadian Pacific Office Car Special crosses the Thompson River at Lytton, British Columbia, running over Canadian National’s Ashcroft Subdivision on September 2, 2007. Powering nearl... (more)

EMD GP38-2 No. 6222, still decorated in the orange paint scheme of Detroit, Toledo & Ironton, is now working for Grand Trunk Western after a merger and leads a GTW freight train on February 7, 198... (more)

On former U.S. Highway 30 at James Town, west of Green River, Wyoming, is a long-abandoned gas station with a southerly view out the facade of Union Pacific’s main line climbing Peru Hill. On th... (more)

A pair of CP Rail SD40s take a breather among other Soo Line power at the former Milwaukee Road Bensenville Yard locomotive facility on December 5, 1987.