Westbound Penn Central freight train at Bay Junction in West Detroit, Michigan, on October 14, 1973. The large building at the left is General Motors' Cadillac plant. Photograph by more)

Soo Line no. 397 taking a spin on the turntable at Shoreham Yard in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in August 1962. The locomotive was one of four center cab Baldwin DT-6-6-2000s acquired from the Duluth,... (more)

Dead locomotives abound at the Milwaukee Road’s West Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Shops in this 1980 view from the 35th Street Viaduct. Earlier in the year, the bankrupt railroad had ceased operations ... (more)

Lehigh Valley power gathered at Sayre, PA in May 1973. Photograph by John F. Bjorklund and cou... (more)

Westbound Erie-Lackawanna freight train powered by E8A no. 824 and three mates at Akron, Indiana, on June 28, 1975. During its final years, the E-L relegated many of its passenger-geared E-units t... (more)

Milwaukee Road "Little Joe" electric motor no. E70 leads a brace of diesels on a westbound freight train past the depot at East Portal, Montana, on July 12, 1973. The train is about to enter St. P... (more)

Westbound empty coal train passing through Kinsley, Kansas, on the Santa Fe's La Junta Subdivision in late fall 1992. The train's two warbonnet C40-8W locomotives are leading empty hoppers back to... (more)

A pair of Lehigh Valley Alco products led by C628 #640 lead an eastbound freight at Dupont, PA in July 1975. Photograph by more)

Westbound Soo Line freight train at Hamel, Minnesota, in December 1974 with an A-B-B-B consist of F-units. The train has just left Minneapolis and is crossing over U.S. Highway 55. The photograph... (more)

Westbound Union Pacific freight train behind 4-12-2 no. 9047 charging through Lawrence, Kansas, on Christmas Eve, 1950. Photograph by Wallace W. Abbey, collection of the Center for Railroad Photog... (more)

Amtrak’s westbound Empire Builder arrives at Columbus, Wisconsin, in 1974. Leading the train is Burlington Northern F7 no. 9736, still in Great Northern paint. Several Northern Pacific baggage c... (more)

Southbound Milwaukee Road freight train climbing the steep grade out of Tacoma, Washington, on August 7, 1978. The train is passing under Interstate Five, whose entrance and exit ramps flank both ... (more)

On an overcast spring day in 1983, Burlington Northern coal trains meet at Palmer Lake, Colorado. At right is a loaded train from Wyoming's Powder River Basin, throttling up to continue its southw... (more)

Westbound Detroit, Toledo & Ironton freight train passing the Michigan Central station in downtown Detroit, Michigan, on September 5, 1976. The station was built in 1912-13 and remained in use unt... (more)

ATSF local freight, engine no. 3637, crossing the big bridge over Alamito Creek near Presidio, Texas, on March 26, 1984, as seen from the caboose. This was on the line from San Angelo to Presidio,... (more)