The southbound Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western “wayfreight” passes the Peavey grain elevator at Coleharbor, North Dakota, on August 31, 2018. Powering the train is DMVW SD50F Nos. 5439 and 5408 ... (more)

Skirting the southern border of Glacier National Park, a westbound BNSF vehicle train passes through Marias, Montana, under a mountain backdrop not long after crossing the summit of Marias Pass on... (more)

In the mid-1980s, Burlington Northern was operating two or three big trains from 31st Street Yard in Denver out to Coors in Golden, Colorado, on a daily basis. For a good portion of the ’80s, ther... (more)

Wisconsin Central EMD SD45 No. 7592 leads a southbound freight up Byron Hill at Byron, Wisconsin, on November 12, 2001.

Union Pacific’s yard in Cheyenne, Wyoming, is packed with a variety of freight cars on July 19, 2003.

On July 22, 2011, a westbound Canadian National grain train crawls along the Thompson River east of Lasha, British Columbia. This view is from Skihist Provincial Park just east of Lytton, British ... (more)

Under storm light on the afternoon of October 11, 2018, a westbound Eastern Washington Gateway Railroad grain train approaches Medical Lake, Washington, powered by two former Montana Rail Link SD4... (more)

Flying eastbound on the Crowsnest Subdivision east of Fort Macleod, Alberta, is Canadian Pacific’s Royal Canadian Pacific luxury train on September 15, 2002. Dashing the train toward Lethbridge is... (more)

A Canadian National intermodal curves westbound over the Thompson River one last time at Lytton, British Columbia, on July 7, 2004. EMD SD75I Nos. 5743 and 5629 bracket EMD SD50F No. 5433 as power... (more)

In a view inside Colorado’s Big 10 Curve, a westbound Union Pacific coal empty at Clay passes above the rear of the train heading toward the big curve west of Rocky on the morning of August 4, 20... (more)

Led by Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW Nos. 314 and 182, a westbound Union Pacific coal empty approaches Big 10 Curve west of Rocky, Colorado, on the morning of August 4, 2001.

BNSF’s Cody local crosses a trestle west of Vocation, Wyoming, on it’s eastward trek to the Casper Subdivision main line at Frannie on June 28, 2018. The large cut of grain cars will be set out at... (more)

In the low sun of May 19, 1995, northbound Wisconsin Central No. 45 roars down the main line at Byron, Wisconsin. Lead F45 No. 5959 has recently graduated from high-speed service across the west o... (more)

Wisconsin pastoral
Rolling through a bucolic Wisconsin scene north of Allenton is northbound Wisconsin Central train 45, with bright Santa Fe F45 No. 5959 leading the way across an empty... (more)

Springtime thunderstorms gather over Tennessee Pass as a westbound Rio Grande freight descends the steep three-percent grade through the town of Red Cliff, Colorado, on the afternoon of May 24, 19... (more)