Heading for a crew change at South Pekin, a Chicago & North Western freight skirts Peoria, Illinois, and crosses Kickapoo Creek in March 1984. The southbound train is powered by venerable EMD GP9R... (more)

A trio of manned helper sets utilizing EMD SD40-2s and used in pushing Burlington Northern trains over Marias Pass, rest in the BN yard at Essex, Montana, on the cold and snowy day of March 4, 198... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern local freight—comprised of two EMD GP20s, six wood chip gons and a caboose—zips past the wood frame station at Cromwell, Minnesota, on October 19, 1985.

A trio of EMD SD9043MACS power a westbound Union Pacific coal train through the snowy curves approaching the siding at Crescent, Colorado, on a very wet April 23, 1999.

For several years, Canadian National’s route to Chicago from the northwest was via trackage rights over Burlington Northern, with this changing over to Wisconsin Central trackage rights and even... (more)

A climb up a tall bluff at Trempealeau, Wisconsin, yields this view of the Mississippi River valley and Burlington Northern’s long causeway just east of Winona, Minnesota. On the morning of June... (more)

St. Maries River Railroad EMD SW1200 No. 501 switches the PotlatchDeltic lumber mill at St. Maries, Idaho, on September 27, 2021. The locomotive is slowly pulling two loaded boxcars of plywood out... (more)

Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 309 and UP EMD SD70ACe No. 8381 are in Diesel House at UP’s Burnham Shops facility in Denver, Colorado, on the eve of December 4, 2015.

My wife Katie, Riley the Beagle, along with Miniature Pinscher brother Kevin, intently watch the westbound Rio Grande Ski Train climbing through Big 10 Curve between Rocky and Clay Colorado, on Ju... (more)

Blanketed by a heavy snow is the rugged scenery surrounding the mountain town of Pinecliffe, Colorado, on April 23, 1999. A Union Pacific coal train curves into town as it proceeds west on UP’s... (more)

Rolling eastbound through the Thompson River Canyon west of Drynoch, British Columbia, is a Canadian Pacific Office Car Special on July 7, 2004, led by CP EMD GP38-2 No. 3084 and EMD FP9 No. 1401.... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s LM (Laurel to Missoula) manifest freight waits at the end of double track west of Livingston, Montana, as a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe Q train passes by on the af... (more)

Union Pacific GE AC4400CW-CTE No. 5687 is inside the former Rio Grande backshop at Burnham Shops in Denver, Colorado, for an overhaul on the evening of December 7, 2015.

Canadian Pacific train 571 speeds through a Wisconsin snowstorm at Pewaukee on January 16, 1994. The train is led by former Soo Line EMD SD40-2 No. 6603, now painted in parent Canadian Pacific col... (more)

Alco caboose hop
Chicago & North Western Alco RS32 No. 4243 on a caboose hop, rolls by at Green Bay, Wisconsin, on April 27, 1985. Both the RS32 and bay window caboose No. 11031 are pain... (more)