With dynamic brake grids needing replacing in Union Pacific GE C44-9W No. 9666, a machinist in UP’s Kansas City Locomotive Facility prepares to perform this maintenance up on the access panels o... (more)

Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western’s “Corn Train” rolls through Falkirk, North Dakota, approaching milepost 511 on the railroad’s Missouri Valley Subdivision on August 29, 2018. The train i... (more)

An eastbound “Rockies to the Red Rocks” Rocky Mountaineer luxury passenger train passes through Gore Canyon between Azure and Gore, Colorado, on Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision dur... (more)

On August 4, 2014, lone EMD SD70ACe No. 8657 trails an eastbound UP coal load headed east through Little Gore Canyon between Radium and Azure, Colorado.

A trio of Union Pacific GE AC4400CWs are working as a mid-train DPU on an eastbound UP coal train negotiating Little Gore Canyon between Radium and Azure, Colorado, on August 4, 2014.

A Union Pacific coal train rolls eastbound above the Colorado River through Little Gore Canyon between Radium and Azure, Colorado, on August 4, 2014.

A cut of Kennecott Copper Corporation acid cars head east on a BNSF manifest freight at mile 14.5 on Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision west of Leyden, Colorado, on March 10, 2013.

A Chicago & North Western coal train meets some Indiana Harbor Belt locomotives at the north end of C&NW’s Proviso Yard near Grand Avenue in Northlake on December 5, 1987.

Led by a pair of Cascade green EMD SD40-2s, Burlington Northern train 50 rolls through the curve at Naperville, Illinois, at 9:02 a.m. on April 15, 1989. A pair of long, sweeping curves through Na... (more)

Under a plethora of stars on a clear Montana night, the Northern Pacific-era cantilevered signal announces the dispatcher’s decision to route a BNSF train west on Montana Rail Link’s main line... (more)

On a pretty July 5, 2018, morning, Montana Rail Link’s MLAUMIS manifest freight climbs the last bit of grade on Winston Hill approaching Winston, Montana.

At 8:20 a.m. the morning of September 1, 2003, Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s V KCMPTL 29 blows by the mile 207.2 semaphores at Donlan, Montana. In the left seat of this former Santa Fe GP50 is... (more)

Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific locomotives are gathered at Yard Center at Dolton on December 3, 1988. MP was merged into UP on December 22, 1982, and initially it was to remain separate in nam... (more)

An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight crosses Cedar Creek Trestle east od Superio, Montana, on July 3, 2001. Leading the train is recently-repainted SD60M No. 9299 (former BN “Desert... (more)

BNSF’s Sandpoint local zips through Algoma, near Sagle, Idaho, on the return trip from Sandpoint to Spokane, on February 7, 2023.