As the blue hour settles over Denver, Colorado, on December 7, 2015, Union Pacific GE AC4400CW-CTE No. 5687 sits inside the cavernous main hall of the former Rio Grande backshop at Burnham Shops. ... (more)

UPY EMD GP15-1 No. 610 sits in the sandblasting bay at the paint shop at Union Pacific’s Jenks Shop in North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 19, 2015. After all the desired paint and lettering is ... (more)

Wisconsin Central was a friendly railroad to be around with a camera. I frequently wandered around the engine facility, as well as locomotive and car shop at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin—or “S... (more)

A trio of former Milwaukee Road EMD GP20s, now owned by Chicago Central & Pacific, depart the CC’s locomotive facility at Hawthorne Yard at Cicero, Illinois, on November 22, 1986. These EMD GP9s... (more)

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.

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)

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 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.

At Union Pacific’s locomotive facility at the railroad’s Joliet Intermodal Terminal, the service track equipped with a drop pit is well lit at night as seen on the eve of November 8, 2010.

Amtrak GE P42DC and P32BWH locomotives, along with former EMD F40PH units converted to NPCU cab cars, rest outside Amtrak’s Locomotive Service Building at Chicago, Illinois, on April 17, 2009.

Super Fleet warbonnet Santa Fe locomotives are everywhere at the railroad’s servicing facility at Corwith Yard in Chicago, Illinois, on June 2, 1996. General Electric B40-8W No. 521 shares track... (more)

A string of CSX locomotives rest underneath a relic from a different age on the afternoon of March 19, 1988. This imposing concrete coaling tower that once loaded steam locomotive tenders with fue... (more)

Chicago & North Western EMD SD40-2 No. 6839 and Belt Railway of Chicago EMD GP7 No. 477 sit in the morning sun at C&NW’s Proviso Yard locomotive facility on February 9, 1992.

A diminutive Wisconsin Central shop switcher waits for the next move, which is likely moving WC EMD SD45 No. 6554, after it is thoroughly sandblasted down to bare metal before being painted in WCâ... (more)