Zipping through Breakneck
Metro-North FL9 Nos. 2032 and 2007 power a northbound commuter train at Breakneck Ridge north of Cold Spring, New York, at 4:19 p.m. on April 11, 1991.

Late in the afternoon of July 4, 2019, Mother Nature decided to provide some of her own fireworks over Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. Torrential rain, lots of lightning and some wind sent us into t... (more)

A charter passenger train dubbed the “Bill Gates Special” cruises through Broomfield on the BNSF’s Front Range Subdivision on September 25, 1998. The classy train was made up of mostly BNSF and Wi... (more)

Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western’s “corn train” rounds the horseshoe curve south (east) of Merida, North Dakota, on August 29, 2018. The empty train has recently departed Blue Flint Ethanol locat... (more)

A lucky little boy gets to ride in the fireman’s seat of Colorado & Southern EMD E5 No. 9952-A as it powers a passenger train at the Illinois Railroad Museum in September 1984. C&S was a subsidiar... (more)

A San Luis & Rio Grande photo freight thunders around a curve at Fir, Colorado, after a round trip from Alamosa to La Veta on September 20, 2007. Originally a Southern Pacific locomotive, the 2-6-... (more)

An empty Union Pacific coal train led by line GE AC4400CW No. 6963 heads up the Energy Spur several miles west of Adams Junction near Steamboat, Colorado, on October 16 2010. In the background is ... (more)

Not too long after departing the railroad’s facilities at Sugar Junction near Monte Vista, Colorado, San Luis Central No. 70 plods along with a northbound freight on the morning of May 24, 2007. B... (more)

Soo Line EMD FP7 No. 502-A sits on a whisker track at the railroad’s roundhouse at Shoreham in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in September 1984. At this time Soo Line kept four F units handy for winter s... (more)

Rio Grande caboose No. 01425 trails the Potash Local westbound over Thompson Hill just east of Thompson, Utah in July 1984. The car has recently had its side windows skillfully plugged by the car ... (more)

Rio Grande EMD GP40-2 Nos. 3125 and 3117 power the Potash Local westbound over Thompson Hill just east of Thompson, Utah in July 1984. The four idler flat cars between the three tank cars, along w... (more)

Amtrak’s eastbound Empire Builder passes the small BNSF yard and Izaak Walton Inn at Essex, Montana. It’s October 10, 2018, and autumn has arrived as the tamaracks begin to change to gold in this ... (more)

The sun pops out on the short winter day of January 27, 2020, as an eastbound BNSF grain train approaches Trout Creek, Montana, on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision.

Two Hooker (HOKX) tank cars are repaired in the busy Progress Rail Services car shop at Amarillo, Texas, on June 15, 2012.

Amtrak’s Winter Park Express ski train has just arrived at Denver Union Station as the eastbound California Zephyr departs at dusk on March 13, 2020.