Low clouds hang in the Clark Fork River Valley at Trout Creek, Montana, as a BNSF unit oil train cruises westbound on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision on February 5, 2023.

UPY EMD GP15-1 No. 610 sits in the sandblasting bay at the paint shop at Union Pacific’s Jenks Shop in North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 19, 2015. After all the desired paint and lettering is ... (more)

Amtrak’s westbound Southwest Chief departs Chicago for Los Angeles on a forty-one hour journey through America’s heartland and southwest on the afternoon of April 17, 2009.

At Bensenville, Illinois, on September 13, 1987, Milwaukee Road EMD SD40-2 No. 174 leads a locomotive consist back to their train at the west end of Bensenville Yard. Soo Line has owned the Milwau... (more)

Looking like a Zephyr streaking through northern Illinois on the C&I, or maybe across Iowa farmland on the Q main line, is Chicago, Burlington & Quincy EMD E5 No. 9911-A and the Nebraska Zephyr Bu... (more)

Coming and going with a pair of Metra commuter trains operating on the BNSF west line in a view from Roosevelt Road overpass on April 17, 2009. Metra EMD F40PHM-2 No. 200 has been idle for a while... (more)

A pair of Conrail SD50s power westbound CR ELIC, a freight from Elkhart Yard in Indiana to Illinois Central, just east of Dolton Junction, Illinois, on December 3, 1988. The train is meeting a sho... (more)

An eastbound BNSF coal empty hurries across Bridge 62 at Tuscor, Montana, on September 17, 2011.

Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 No. 5371 sprints westbound through Spring Glen, Utah, on a fine February 2, 2005.

Wisconsin Central was a friendly railroad to be around with a camera. I frequently wandered around the engine facility, as well as locomotive and car shop at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin—or “S... (more)

A trio of former Milwaukee Road EMD GP20s, now owned by Chicago Central & Pacific, depart the CC’s locomotive facility at Hawthorne Yard at Cicero, Illinois, on November 22, 1986. These EMD GP9s... (more)

A Chicago Transit Authority commuter train curves along the base of century Tower at the busy junction at CTA Tower 18 on the elevated route over Wells Street to Lake Street in Chicago, Illinois, ... (more)

The sun is low to the horizon in Powder River Basin as a Union Pacific coal empty growls over Logan Hill north of Bill, Wyoming, on the eve of July 2, 2016.

Seaboard System Railroad EMD SD40-2 No. 8204 rests with several Soo Line and Canadian Pacific SD40-2s at Soo’s former Milwaukee Road locomotive facility at Bensenville Yard, Illinois, on Septemb... (more)

A trio of dirty Missouri Pacific EMD SD40-2s sit at the locomotive facility in Yard Center at Dolton, Illinois, on August 10, 1986.