Montana Rail Link’s day gas local heads eastbound on the Fourth Subdivision, passing the signals at the west end of the siding at Plains, Montana, on the morning of October 4, 2020.

Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western’s “wayfreight” has switched cars at Coal Creek Junction, North Dakota, on August 28, 2018, and is ready to depart southbound for a trip to Bismarck on the Missour... (more)

Looking right at home, Union Pacific No. 1989, the Rio Grande heritage locomotive, exits Tunnel 29 east of Pinecliffe, Colorado, leading UP’s MRONY over former D&RGW territory on July 10, 2006.

Led by a quartet of yellow and blue EMDs, an eastbound Santa Fe freight rumbles over Bridge 873.8 crossing Abo Arroyo east of Sais, New Mexico, on the morning of June 2, 1995. The train is climbin... (more)

Dakota Southern Railway Alco C-420 No. 213 sits at the railroad’s facility at Chamberlain, South Dakota, on May 14, 1995. The locomotive is dressed is a Rock Island-inspired red-and-black paint sc... (more)

Hauling interchange traffic from Freeport McMoRan’s railroad operating from the giant copper mining complex at Morenci to Clifton, Arizona Eastern Railway’s South Siding to Clifton train works upg... (more)

New Santa Fe EMD SD75M No. 213 leads an eastbound freight as it departs Becker siding east of Belen, New Mexico, on June 3, 1995.

A westbound Santa Fe freight climbs Ash Hill at Klondike, California, while crossing the Mojave Desert on March 9, 1995. Powering the train is GE C40-8W No. 851, GE C44-9W No. 610 and EMD SD45-2B ... (more)

Freshly-painted Conrail EMD GP38 No. 7716 leads an eastbound vehicle train through Hudson Lake, Indiana, on a snowy February 25, 1990.

Seven four-axle units haul a westbound Arizona & California freight approaching the Santa Fe interchange at Cadiz, California, late in the day of March 8, 1995.

Santa Fe GE C40-8W No. 872, west unit in a helper set of locomotives, sits in the yard near the station at Raton, New Mexico, on the morning of May 30, 1995.

Five Freeport McMoRan EMD GP38/38-2s ease a train down the steep grade on the railroad’s main line from Morenci to Clifton, Arizona, on the morning of October 28, 2020.

Norfolk Southern EMD SD40-2 No. 6170 switches cars at industries at Whitehorn Road grade crossing near Bulls Gap, Tennessee, on May 10, 2014.

Montana Rail Link EMD SD40-2XR No. 257 scoots a “Jimbo” work train out of Elliston, Montana, on the way east over Mullan Pass on October 7, 2020.

Four-of-a-kind—and they aren’t Dash 9s
A matching quartet of Super Fleet GE C40-8W Nos. 909, 833, 802 and 878, power a Santa Fe stack train through the Mojave Desert east of Ludlow, Cal... (more)