An eastbound Southern Pacific coal train meets an westbound SP train at Soldier Summit, Utah, on September 7, 1995. During this era, SP AC4400CWs were common on this former Rio Grande main line.

Big blue Conrail GE No. 6040 leads an eastbound CR freight through New Carlisle, Indiana, at 1:35 p.m. on March 16, 1991. CR No. 6040 is one of 25 4,000 hp C40-8's bought from GE in 1989, assigned... (more)

Soo Line train 17 enters a curve passing the Brookfield, Wisconsin, depot on the afternoon of April 12, 1987. Soo Line EMD GP9 Nos. 400 and 2402 share locomotion with leased Conrail EMD GP38 Nos. ... (more)

There are some storms brewing to the north as an eastbound BNSF coal train rumbles through the massive cut at East Stokes, Wyoming, on June 21, 2020. In the spring of 1998, BNSF daylighted Sunset ... (more)

Chicago & North Western EMD SD40-2 Nos. 6907 and 6901, running through on the Conrail main line to Elkhart Yard in Indiana, power eastbound CR ELPR through the long curves at New Carlisle, Indiana... (more)

At 6:25 a.m. on the morning of May 28, 1989, Conrail EMD GP40 No. 3200 leads an eastbound CR freight through a curve at Burdick, Indiana.

In a scene where it almost appears like a Santa Fe freight flying through the Midwest… until you look at the details. Single track and Wisconsin Central boxcars provide a clue.

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Morrison-Knudsen EMD F45 No. 5525 sits in Martin, Utah, on September 7, 1995, while serving Utah Railway. The paint job certainly doesn’t conceal it’s former days as Santa Fe No. 5950.

Conrail EMD SD40 Nos. 6280 and 6277 helper locomotives are on the rear of an eastbound freight, assisting with braking on the Allegheny Mountain crossing west of Altoona, Pennsylvania, on October ... (more)

The Montana Rail Link yard at Logan, Montana, is busy on the morning of October 3, 2022. MRL’s 844 Logan local waits for a MRL Ballast train to clear before it can continue switching its own tra... (more)

A Montana Rail Link helper set is on the point of a Burlington Northern Santa Fe priority freight heading west over Mullan Pass west of Helena, Montana, on July 1, 2001. The train is crossing curv... (more)

Amtrak’s California Zephyr passes the site of Tunnel 41, removed many years ago by Rio Grande, in Little Gore Canyon approaching Radium, Colorado, on the afternoon of September 19, 2023.

Conrail trains swap power at La Porte, Indiana, alongside the railroad’s busy Chicago to Elkhart main line on September 11, 1988. New Conrail B40-8 No. 5085 is only four month old, built by Gene... (more)

Powered by a pair of Rio Grande EMD GP60s, a summer run of Ansco’s Rio Grande Ski Train works upgrade through Clay, Colorado, on the morning of July 15, 2000.

Powered by CSXT EMD GP15-1 No. 1523 and trundling down the old Rock Island line from Bureau Junction to Peoria, is a short three-car CSX freight train heading southbound at Putnam, Illinois, on a ... (more)