It’s almost 8:00 p.m. on the longest day of the year as a BNSF coal load meets a Union Pacific empty on top of Logan Hill north of Bill, Wyoming, on June 21, 2020. The Orin Line isn’t as busy as i... (more)

Frog Pond is half ice and half open water, and reflects a winter sky that has finally quit raining on the afternoon of January 27, 2020, as an eastbound BNSF coal empty cruises by at Trout Creek, ... (more)

Metra trains powered by Burlington Northern E9s assemble at Chicago Union Station in October 1983, waiting patiently for commuters to board for a trip home to the western suburbs.

A westbound Santa Fe freight is about to duck under the old Division Street overpass at Lockport, Illinois, on a pleasant autumn day of October 12, 1985.

After a crew change, a Union Pacific stack train departs Green River, Wyoming, on September 27, 2020. The westbound train is crossing the Green River as it begins the climb up Peru Hill on the rai... (more)

The BNSF’s South Seattle, Washington, to Alliance, Texas, Q train heads east beneath the Crazy Mountains just out of Big Timber, Montana, on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision on June 25, 2017... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s local out of Logan hauls one car up to the grain elevator on the 2.2% grade mountain grade of the Harrison Branch approaching milepost 6 on September 10, 2011.

A Freeport McMoRan train drops downgrade into Clifton, Arizona, on the morning of October 28, 2020. The train will be interchanged to the Arizona Eastern Railway in the compact yard at Clifton. Hi... (more)

Chicago & North Western GE C44-9W No. 8663 belches thick black smoke as it passes the old Clinton, Iowa, depot while leading a westbound coal train on April 14, 1995.

A Wisconsin & Calumet three-car freight trundles down a snow-covered former Illinois Central Gulf branch line running between Madison, Wisconsin, and Freeport, Illinois, on February 17, 1985. A fo... (more)

A Santa Fe intermodal train sprints across the Kankakee River Bridge at Lorenzo, Illinois, on the afternoon of May 10, 1986. The westbound train is powered by a pair each of EMD SD45s and SD40-2s.

Iowa Interstate Montreal Locomotive Works M420W No. 800 rests at the railroad’s facilities at Council Bluffs, Iowa, on May 7, 1995. This unit is former Providence & Worcester No. 2001 built in Feb... (more)

Under a big Montana sky, a westbound BNSF freight climbs Winston Hill approaching milepost 216 at Winston on the afternoon of June 25, 2019.

On January 27, 1996, Wisconsin Central train 43 has tops Byron Hill, south of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, in extremely high winds and well below zero temperatures. The area around Fond du Lac received... (more)

An eastbound Santa Fe freight rolls into Ludlow, California, while crossing the Mojave Desert between Barstow and Needles on March 8, 1995.