Running southbound on Colorado’s Joint Line is a brand-new Burlington Northern Santa Fe EMD SD70MAC No. 9840 making its first revenue run at Greenland on a cold December 11, 1997. Interesting to... (more)

An eastbound Amtrak Capitol rolls along San Pablo Bay at Pinole, California, on March 12, 1995. The train is led by GE P32BWH “Pepsi Can” No. 501, that was later sold and became California Dep... (more)

Maintenance-of-way is done for the day and has all their equipment into the short house track at Lombard siding—and now traffic is moving again in Montana’s Lombard Canyon on June 17, 2014. A ... (more)

On the afternoon of June 17, 2014, another BNSF coal empty slinks through the curves of Lombard Canyon just west of Lombard, Montana, on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision main line.

Metra EMD F40PHM-2 No. 188 sits between runs at Aurora, Illinois, on March 15, 1992. Chicago’s regional commuter authority Metra bought 30 of these units in 1991-92. The 3,200 horsepower locomot... (more)

After a morning departure from Glenwood Springs, an eastbound Union Pacific Board of Directors special curves through Dotsero, Colorado, on October 1, 2000. The train is led by new EMD SD70M No. 4... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe train 207 crosses the large bridge at Cutbank, Montana, on October 7, 1996. New BNSF GE C44-9W No. 966 leads a trio of Burlington Northern locomotives for power on the... (more)

BNSF’s Cowley turn rolls through the scenic landscape between Sheep Canyon and Himes, Wyoming, on BNSF’s Casper Subdivision on the morning of June 26, 2018.

On the afternoon of December 28, 1995, a Burlington Northern local freight, arrives at Rochelle, Illinois. The “caboose hop” is powered by BN GP9 No. 1977, a former Spokane, Portland & Seattle... (more)

Norfolk Southern Roadrailer train 258, powered by NS EMD GP60 No. 7115, passes through a deep cut of the Southern Railway’s upgraded “Rathole” line between Cincinnati and Chattanooga at Keno... (more)

Kicking up a goodly amount of accumulating lake-effect snow is Conrail EMD GP40 No. 3009 leading an eastbound CR freight out of La Porte, Indiana, on a wintery February 25, 1990.

A Fox River Valley Railroad freight crosses the long bridge over thin ice atop Little Lake Butte des Morts at Menasha, Wisconsin, on a cold November 18, 1989. All three of FRVR’s EMD GP30s—Nos... (more)

Winter in Montana can be brutal, and during one of these bitter cold days, a Montana Rail Link section crew digs out a switch serving Thompson River Lumber before MRL’s Paradise local arrives to... (more)

At 9:54 a.m. on April 16, 1994, an eastbound Santa Fe freight rolls through Toluca, Illinois, led by venerable ATSF EMD GP20 No. 3032. Even near the end of its existence, Santa Fe could deliver a ... (more)

On the track in the foreground, a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal empty drops downgrade on Nebraska’s Crawford Hill west of Belmont on April 11, 1998. On the other side of the valley... (more)