Metra EMD F40C No. 601 leads a westbound commuter train past Tower B17 at Bensenville, Illinois, on March 3, 1990. Similar looking to Amtrak’s SDP40F, the F40C has unique corrugated side panels ... (more)

The storm that left a skiff of snow in its wake still shrouds the peaks of Glacier National Park in light snow and fog on the morning of March 1, 1992. In a different look at a popular location, T... (more)

A Canadian Pacific coal train rolls westward on Canadian National’s Ashcroft Subdivision just west of Basque, British Columbia, on the afternoon of September 1, 2007.

The water is calm along the Clark Fork on the hot afternoon of June 30, 2021, as a westbound BNSF coal train rumbles by on Montana Rail Link’s scenic Fourth Subdivision main line between Noxon a... (more)

A Santa Fe freight cruises eastbound through Toluca, Illinois, powered by EMD GP20 No. 3032, along with a GP7u and another GP20, on April 16, 1994.

On November 25, 1994, an empty Wisconsin Central unit coal/taconite ore train, operated in conjunction with Southern Pacific, curves over a trestle between Amherst Junction and Custer, and will so... (more)

A Canadian National stack train skirts the Thompson River between Spences Bridge and Seddall, British Columbia, on July 7, 2004. Powering the westbound train on CN’s Ashcroft Subdivision through... (more)

A Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range taconite ore train marches through Wales, Minnesota, on the railroad’s Iron Junction to Two Harbors route on September 30, 1989.

Copper Basin Railway’s unit train rolls through Ray Junction, Arizona, late in the afternoon on April 20, 2017, led by CBRY No. 302, a rebuilt GP40 now classified as a GP40-3.

Two Copper Basin Railway employees work in the repair shop at Hayden, Arizona, on April 20, 2017. The shop is fully-equipped to make repairs to the railroad’s locomotive and freight car fleets, ... (more)

In a rugged canyon formed by an emerald Kicking Horse River, a westbound Royal Canadian Pacific tour train approaches Glenogle, British Columbia, on September 20, 2002.

Canadian Pacific’s local that works east out of Max, North Dakota, on the railroad’s New Town Subdivision arrives to a chock-full Max Yard on August 28, 2018. The local this day is powered by ... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific grain train, led by Canadian Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 8610 and UP GE ES44AC No. 5523, crosses UP’s impressive Joso Bridge over the Snake River at Joso, Washington, on Se... (more)

Santa Fe bought 40 EMD F45s in mid-1968, mostly for freight service, although the last 20 had steam lines and could be found pulling passenger trains for a few years too. An F45 is essentially a c... (more)

The sheer depth of the rock walls lining Gore Canyon dwarf Amtrak’s California Zephyr as it approaches Azure, Colorado, on September 15, 2021.