Amtrak’s eastbound Southwest Chief flies over a fill along a trackside pond west of Leeds, Illinois, on May 9, 1992. Powering train 4 is a pair of new GE B32BWH locomotives bracketing an older EMD... (more)

The rugged peaks of Glacier National Park stand tall in the background on October 8, 2018, as a westbound BNSF vehicle train rumbles through Marias, Montana.

On October 24, 1992, the Soo Line’s abandoned, former Milwaukee Road yard at Savanna, Illinois, is still populated by a large assortment of Soo and Milwaukee cars awaiting a date with the cutting ... (more)

A new Amtrak GE P32BWH shows off its new colors at Amtrak’s locomotive facility in Chicago, Illinois, as older EMD F40PH No. 299 stands by in the background on a sunny February 22, 1992.

On the cold, damp, rainy morning of May 8, 2019, Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 descends the Wasatch grade at Castle Rock, Utah. The locomotive leads the 150th anniversary of the Golden Spike spec... (more)

On October 19, 2015, an afternoon run of the Deseret Power Railway’s unit coal train has just crested Holum Pass and is now dropping downgrade past milepost 7 at Blue Mountain, Colorado.

In Burlington Northern’s sprawling Galesburg Yard, locomotives and freight cars always seem to be on the move at this important crossroads facility. In front of a wall of stacked BN shipping conta... (more)

A Freeport McMoRan train works up the steep grade between Clifton and Morenci, Arizona, after crossing Copper Verde Lane grade crossing on October 27, 2020. Lead locomotives FMI No. 59 is former R... (more)

On the afternoon of February 29, 2020, Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad steam-powered Rotary OY, pushed by 2-8-2 Mikados Nos. 487 and 484, plows its way east on the three-foot gauge railroad, up t... (more)

Powered by a trio of EMD SD70MACs, a BNSF coal empty is westbound approaching Anselmo, Nebraska, on BNSF’s Sand Hills Subdivision on the afternoon of May 22, 2014.

A Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western “corn train” rolls southbound approaching Bismark just north of Arnold, North Dakota, over the DMV&W’s Missouri Valley Subdivision on August 29, 2018. The unit ... (more)

Waiting for a warmer time of year are the piers and a diving board of the cottages lining the shore of Loon Lake, Washington, and on the cold morning of January 31, 2019, BNSF’s Chewelah Turn slow... (more)

An eastbound Santa Fe intermodal train descends Edelstein Hill and is entering Houlihan’s Curve just above the town of Chillicothe, Illinois, on December 8, 1990. Leading the way is a former Amtra... (more)

Just before a golden sunset on July 1, 2019, Montana Rail Link’s Helena switch tops Winston Hill and begins dropping downgrade just east of Winston, Montana. Powering the local with cars for RY T... (more)

At the end of the day on July 1, 2020, a westbound Montana Rail Link ballast extra climbs upgrade on Mullan Pass west of Helena, Montana. The train is passing through striking Iron Ridge cut betwe... (more)