Fresh out of the The Wisconsin and Southern’s Paint Facility in Horicon, Wisconsin, on September 17, 1995, is the first Wisconsin Central EMD F45 to be repainted, No. 6650. WC bought six F45s and ... (more)

With neither animal or footprint in sight, eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe grain train G06 passes an abandoned ranch west of Blossburg, Montana, on the west slope of Mullan Pass on a snowy ... (more)

Burlington Northern train 120 crosses Austin Creek Trestle just west of Skyline, Montana, as it descends Mullan Pass on September 9, 1995. The eastbound freight is powered by three EMD SD40-2s and... (more)

Chicago & North Western EMD SD60 No. 8023 leads a southbound C&NW coal train approaching Antelope siding in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin on July 4, 1989. Note how the Orin Line is still single tra... (more)

A westbound Southern Pacific taconite ore train headed for Geneva Steel is working through the curves at Kyune, Utah, while climbing over Soldier Summit on September 8, 1995. Powering the train up... (more)

Three Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 Tunnel Motors push on a westbound Southern Pacific taconite ore train at Kyune, Utah, climbing the eastern grade of Soldier Summit. Passing the helpers is lone Utah Ra... (more)

Your Friendly Sand Man
Green Dubuque Sand & Gravel EMD SW1 No. 537 sits on the company’s trackage at East Dubuque, Illinois, on August 21, 1994. The switcher was originally built by EMD... (more)

Torrential rain and thunderstorms have just pounded Wyoming’s Logan Hill, and as the storms head east, a southbound Union Pacific coal train climbs the hill at Logan at sunset on July 4, 2019.

Storms are moving away, as is a southbound Union Pacific coal train that has just crested Logan Hill with GE ET44AC shoving as rear DPU, late in the day of July 4, 2019. Logan Hill is north of Bil... (more)

A westbound Santa Fe freight sprints through Helendale, California, on a windy February 29, 1988. The first two units in the consist—EMD SD45-2 No. 5800 and an SD45—are still dressed in the Southe... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s Helena local rumbles through Lombard Canyon west of Lambard, Montana, with seven cars for Helena yard late in the afternoon of June 29, 2016.

On the afternoon of May 15, 2013, a BNSF manifest freight curves westbound along the Missouri River in Lombard Canyon between Lombard and Toston, Montana.

Canadian Pacific’s wayfreight between Cranbrook and Golden is crossing the Kootenay River at Fort Steele, British Columbia, on September 21, 2013.

A still bright warbonnet-painted Burlington Northern Santa Fe GE C44-9W No. 4719 leads a westbound freight that begins the climb of Mullan Pass leaving Helena at Tobin on June 5, 2002. The grade i... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific freight exits the Hermosa Tunnels on Track 2 at Hermosa, Wyoming, while traversing Sherman Hill on the afternoon of May 10, 2007.