Montana Rail Link EMD GP9 Nos. 127 and 109 switch their train at Thompson Falls, Montana, before heading back home to Paradise on January 24, 2013.

A westbound BNSF ballast train of Herzog cars crosses one of the many “prairie pothole” lakes found in the area just east of Cleveland, North Dakota, on the afternoon of September 1, 2018.

Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western EMD SD50F No. 5439 and EMD SD40-3 No. 3134 sit inside the railroad’s compact, but capable, locomotive shop in Bismarck, North Dakota, on August 27, 2018.

GE and EMD Locomotives pause on the diesel service tracks at Union Pacific’s Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska, on May 4, 2011.

Stack over Two Medicine
It’s autumn, but snow has already coated the jagged peaks in Glacier National Park. On October 8, 2018, a BNSF stack train crosses the oft-photographed Two Med... (more)

After the passage of a large thunderstorm on Wyoming’s Peru Hill, the late afternoon sun pops out and lights up a Union Pacific stack train heading west on the Evanston Subdivision on June 22, ... (more)

A southbound Illinois Central freight train, with coal hoppers behind the locomotives, passes a picturesque barn between Ashkum and Danforth, Illinois, on May 6, 1990. The modern day IC locomotive... (more)

In a panned photograph, LTV Mining (former Erie Mining Company) EMD F9A No 4212 leads an empty ore train west through Cramer, Minnesota, on September 24, 1994.

A Great Northwest Railroad (GRNW reporting marks, a Watco Company) freight led by WAMX No. 3920 rolls across Union Pacific’s huge Snake River Bridge at Joso, Washington, on September 21, 2015. T... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s 844 local has just made a run up to Harrison to pick up a pair of empty fertilizer cars from the Harrison Elevator and is now at Sappington, Montana, on June 27, 2023. The co... (more)

Two BNSF coal trains meet on the four-track main line over Logan Hill north of Bill, Wyoming, on the afternoon of October 18, 2018.

Respite at sunset: At sunset on May 4, 2011, East Hump at the sprawling Union Pacific Bailey Yard at North Platte, Nebraska, has a lull between trains. The double crossover and diamond between, ar... (more)

As freight cars roll over East Hump utilizing the north track, a track gang works on south track on May 3, 2011. Union Pacific’s massive North Platte Yard in Nebraska is always busy and has to k... (more)

A Union Pacific train gets sorted outside the windows of East Hump tower while East Hump Foreman R.C. McKain supervises the operation in the lower level of the tower at North Platte, Nebraska, on ... (more)

Jake Linderman, second trick operator on the second floor of East Hump tower, talks to a switch crew on the radio at Union Pacific’s big yard at North Platte, Nebraska, on May 3, 2011.