The tower that use to guard the Chicago & Northwestern and Soo Line diamond still stands in middle of the woods as seen from Wisconsin Northern 1500 heading north towards Rice Lake, Wisconsin. You... (more)

A BNSF freight train streaks across the calm St. Croix River on the Prescott, Wisconsin lift bridge.

A trio of BNSF power brings an empty Weston coal train up Canadian Pacific rails at Red Wind, Minnesota, as the sun dips below the horizon.

The CTA's Midway train heads back into the downtown Chicago Loop.

An almost abstract view of the number boards glowing in the night from an Union Pacific SD70M.

A Canadian Pacific freight train pounds the diamond in the middle of the night at the Rondout Tower.

The St. Paul local has a gorgeous matched set of Soo power heading down the frozen Mississippi River at Maple Springs, Minnesota.

A Soo Line SD60 leads a string of red Canadian Pacific GEs up the Mississippi River at Maple Springs, Minnesota.

An Iowa, Chicago, and Eastern train makes time down the Mississippi River in the late afternoon at Weaver, Minnesota.

The Altoona local has just made it back to the yard as a severe thunderstorm comes in from the west.

A empty coal train flies under a gorgeous sky just outside of Scottsbluff, Nebraska in the early morning hours, on it's way back to the Powder River Basin.

A low pressure front along with a thunderstorm are riding the heels of a late Triple Crown Roadrailertrain led by a pair of Norfolk Southern locomotives head across the Chippewa River in Eau Clair... (more)

TRAINS Magazine 2011 Grand Prize Photo Contest Winner. The view of a falling snowflake. A heavy January snow fall blankets the area in snow while Union Pacific MSSPR makes a set out in Altoona,... (more)

Containers of corn are busted open and leaking at their seams as Herzog equipment move and stack the debris off the BNSF mainline.

A horse looks on, as the Ashley Furniture's 40th Anniversary passenger special rolls by being pulled by Illinois Central 100.