It’s snowing in far western Montana as an eastbound BNSF train follows an icy cold Clark Fork between Heron and Noxon while traversing Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision on February 6, 2021.

An eastbound Burlington Northern freight is about to thump across the diamond as it passes the creaky, old tower guarding the Milwaukee Road crossing of the BN at Savanna, Illinois, in November 19... (more)

On the morning of April 24, 1988, an eastbound Santa Fe freight crosses the wide Mississippi River from Fort Madison, Iowa, into Illinois on an impressive multi-span deck and truss bridge built in... (more)

A Chicago & Illinois Midland freight curves through downtown Pekin, Illinois, on February 17, 1991. Lead locomotive on the train—C&IM EMD SD38-2 No. 72—is about to pass over Illinois State Route 9... (more)

A quartet of Union Pacific GEs eases a UP freight downgrade off Peru Hill just west of Green River, Wyoming, on September 27, 2020. The two lead motors are repainted AC4400CWs, followed by a pair ... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2 No. 6795 leads train 12 eastbound along the bank of the Mississippi River as it approaches Savanna, Illinois, at 4:10 p.m. on October 19, 1996. Trailing units are LM... (more)

Powered by sets of EMD SD40-2s and on mainline trackage skirting Burlington Northern’s Galesburg Yard in Illinois, a eastbound intermodal train meets a heavy taconite ore train headed for Granite ... (more)

An outbound Freeport McMoRan train has negotiated the railroad’s steep grade from Morenci, Arizona, and approaches the junction and interchange yard with Arizona Eastern Railway at Clifton on the ... (more)

Soo Line train 943 rattles the bay windows of the Brookfield depot on the afternoon of May 27, 1990. Candy-apple red EMD SD60 No. 6052 leads the westbound on this pleasant spring day in Wisconsin.

Heading westbound on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision, a BNSF freight approaches the east switch of the siding at Lombard, Montana, on the afternoon of July 2, 2017. The Missouri River is ca... (more)

Hottest of the hot
Powered by a quartet of Super Fleet GE B40-8Ws, Santa Fe’s 199 train, the hottest in a fleet of hot intermodal trains, barrels through Ancona, Illinois, at 4:00 p.m. ... (more)

A Freeport McMoRan train works up the steep grade between Clifton and Morenci, Arizona, approaching Corral Cut on October 28, 2020. Lead locomotives FMI No. 59 is former Rio Grande GP40 No. 3075 t... (more)

Soo Line train 220 heads east out of Savanna, Illinois, at 12:25 p.m. on October 24, 1992. The railroad’s abandoned, former Milwaukee Road yard at Savanna is still populated by a large assortment ... (more)

A northbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight rounds the wide curve through Powder River, Wyoming, on BNSF’s Casper Subdivision on September 1, 1998. Behind lead unit EMD SD40-2 No. 6338 is BN... (more)

Burlington Northern “Expeditor” intermodal train 47 passes over Main Street grade crossing as it skirts the city of La Crosse, Wisconsin, on February 20, 1993. The lofty vista is from a public vie... (more)