Union Pacific EMD SD40-2 No. 3743 leads a freight past the signals at mile 634.5 between Como and Ramsey, Wyoming, on July 5, 1988. In the background, just barely visible above the train is anothe... (more)

No longer serving its intended purpose is the tired depot at Grayville, Illinois, on a rainy April 25, 1993, as an Indiana Hi-Rail freight ambles through town on a former Illinois Central line. Th... (more)

A westbound BNSF stack train, with two Boeing loads up front, rolls through the snow approaching Noxon, Montana, on February 7, 2021.

An eastbound Santa Fe intermodal train crosses the Illinois River over this substantial truss bridge at Chillicothe, Illinois, on the morning of April 30, 1988. This double track bridge, replacing... (more)

BNSF’s Sandpoint local is passed by the DPUs of a westbound BNSF grain train at East Algoma, Idaho, on February 4, 2021. After meeting two westbound trains, the local will depart and cross the lon... (more)

Getting a bath
Late in the day of September 17, 1989, CP Rail EMD SD40 No. 5404 and a Soo Line SD40-2 are run through the wash building at Soo Line’s former Milwaukee Road Bensenville Y... (more)

An eastbound BNSF intermodal train climbs toward the east end of Bealville on the pretty spring day of March 2, 2016, while climbing California’s famed Tehachapi Pass.

Montana Rail Link’s day gas local follows the Flathead River eastbound at Perma, Montana, on October 2, 2015. MRL’s gas train operates between Missoula and Thompson Falls (Pipeline), usually on a ... (more)

On June 20, 2020, a westbound BNSF manifest freight train follows the North Platte River through scenic Wendover Canyon, located between Wendover and Cassa, Wyoming, on BNSF’s Canyon Subdivision. ... (more)

Led by Chicago & North Western EMD SD50 No. 7020 and Union Pacific GE C40-8 No. 9201, an eastbound grain train works past a field of summer flowers between Rochelle and Creston, Illinois, on Augus... (more)

Burlington Northern’s executive passenger train passes a weed sprayer work train at Yates City, Illinois, on June 24, 1995, giving participants of the annual Galesburg Railroad Days a ride on the ... (more)

A westbound BNSF coal train rolls through a curve approaching milepost 57 west of Trout Creek in the middle of a quick-moving Montana snowstorm.

On the afternoon of February 8, 2021, an eastbound BNSF coal empty crosses Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Montana. A small snowstorm two days before still clings to much of the surroundings at this loc... (more)

Following the first section by 34 minutes, a second section of Santa Fe’s QNYLA train swings through the long curve at Ancona, Illinois, at 2:41 p.m. on May 2, 1992. Powering the speedster is a qu... (more)

A 12-car Pend Oreille Valley Railroad freight heads west toward Sandpoint along the Pend Oreille River between Laclede and Dover, Idaho, on February 5, 2021. POVA operates this portion of the form... (more)