An eastbound stack train waits for a higher-priority TOFC train to pass it under a vast illuminated sky in the Arizona desert.

True Heritage is bleeding through in the form of blue paint. UPY 720 was born as Missouri Pacific 1720.

Three different CP paint schemes are featured on the power of an eastbound freight rolling along the Bow River.

A freshly outshopped stimulus-rebuild P40 leads the Hoosier State past a set of Monon semaphores in downtown Crawfordsville, Indiana. The semaphores are slated to come down by the end of summer.

Minnesota Transportation Museum volunteers Phil Wellman (left) and Andy Inserra are working on moving the headlight on MTM's SDP40. The locomotive was delivered with a high headlight as Great Nort... (more)

Clear as mud - one of a handful of surviving unpatched or unrepainted Southern Pacific locomotives rests next to a mud puddle in the Hoffman Avenue yard in St. Paul.

A trash train marches along the Columbia River, as viewed from the rest area at Lyle.

Having dropped their inbound transfer at West Chicago, UP's Olympians dash on to Proviso.

Wisconsin & Southern's Janesville-to-Chicago freight meets the business train at Spring Grove, IL. Photo taken with permission.

The sun sets on a southbound surfliner.

A pristine B&O caboose, decked out in full Capitol Dome paint, trots along at the end of CSX's Lorain local. How many years did this caboose have to wait for the paint scheme on the locomotives to... (more)

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The two remaining Chicago & North Western locomotives lead a transfer past JB tower in West Chicago. Equal credit for the photo goes to Ryan Parent, who provided the flash equipment. This was our ... (more)

Southbound coal loads swing southeast over the Youghiogheny River for their journey into Pennsylvania and Maryland.

Iowa Interstate's heritage unit blasts past the CSX facility in Seneca with an ethanol train.