A westbound BNSF stack train crosses the inlet of Trout Creek into the Clark Fork on Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Montana, on June 29, 2020.

Busy afternoon on Mullan
Three trains negotiate Montana Rail Link’s Mullan Pass west of Helena, Montana, on the afternoon of June 25, 2020. In the background going downgrade at Austin i... (more)

Powered by EMD SD60 No. 6067, Union Pacific’s short-lived Roadrailer departs the former Missouri Pacific Dolton intermodal yard on its trip from Chicago, Illinois, to Dallas, Texas, on December 3,... (more)

For years, Colorado’s Minturn yard has sat empty, rusty and forlorn, as seen on June 4, 2018. The sand tower is now gone and weeds grow between the rails that once supported interstate commerce. O... (more)

A Union Pacific passenger train follows the Colorado River approaching Yarmony, Colorado, while traveling westbound over the railroad’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision on August 3, 2014. Powering the ni... (more)

Santa Fe’s 198 train, running from Chicago to Los Angeles, curves through Ransom, Illinois, in the very last sunlight of April 16, 1994.

Changing of the guard
On February 22, 1992, Burlington Northern commuter trains to Aurora, Illinois, were still being hauled by some vintage BN EMD E9s, but new Metra F40PHM-2 locomotiv... (more)

Running light engines between Tunnel Nos. 5 and 4 south of Clifton, Arizona, is the Arizona Eastern Railway’s South Siding to Clifton train making a second turn to Clifton on October 27, 2020. The... (more)

Heading southbound on the Indiana Harbor Belt main line, a Belt Railway of Chicago freight is about duck under the Burlington Northern three-track main line at La Grange, Illinois, late in the day... (more)

In a typical Wisconsin winter that never seems to end, Wisconsin Central’s westbound PRANA freight, led by EMD F45 No. 6651, slogs through wet snow at Oshkosh on April 30, 1996.

A westbound BNSF coal load climbs the 2.2% grade out of Austin, Montana, on the the serpentine route over Mullan Pass on October 7, 2020. The head end is working toward the loop around Iron Ridge,... (more)

On a cold October 8, 2018, an eastbound BNSF stack train crosses the bridge over Two Medicine River at East Glacier, Montana.

In need of a thorough cleaning, Canadian Pacific’s GE AC4400CW No. 9820 leads an eastbound freight through Division Street at St. Paul, Minnesota, on June 10, 2016.

Rails worn by heavy tonnage, the late afternoon sun glints off the diamonds of Burlington Northern’s crossing of Soo Line’s former Milwaukee Road main line at Savanna, Illinois, on September 10, 1... (more)

A pair of Santa Fe GE locomotives power a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe stack track crosses the Vermillion River at South Streator, Illinois, on the afternoon of April 26, 1997.