A setting sun peeks through the clouds long enough to illuminate a westbound BNSF grain train climbing out of Austin on Montana Rail Link’s main line over Mullan Pass on June 28, 2022.

A thunderstorm has just passed, but wet rail left behind slows a westbound BNSF oil train as it climbs the 2.2 percent grade of Mullan Pass at Iron Ridge between Austin and Weed, Montana, on the a... (more)

Sitting on the old Rock Island main line at Joliet Union Station is a Metra bi-level commuter train that is about to depart for Chicago on February 22, 1989. The station, built in 1912, once serve... (more)

Likely the most widely used 4-wheel truck in American railroad is EMD’s Blomberg truck. A rebuilt Blomberg sits in the rain outside Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, ... (more)

The amount of indoor track space inside the cavernous main shop at Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop in North Little Rock, Arkansas, is impressive. On the northeast side of the shop facing t... (more)

On May 18, 2015, Union Pacific GE ES44AC No. 5401 gets repainted and lettered at the railroad’s Downing B. Jenks Shop in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Gary Dunlap, a carman by trade, is applying ... (more)

The setting sun illuminates a trio of BNSF EMDs leading a westbound BNSF coal train past Frog Pond at Trout Creek, Montana, on October 2, 2015.

Cowl along the Mississippi: Led by EMD SD60F No. 5528, Canadian National train 385 cruises along the Mississippi River on Burlington Northern’s (actually early BNSF by this time) double track ma... (more)

A Union Pacific coal train begins its climb up Logan Hill at Converse Junction and passes a BNSF coal train that just finished loading at Antelope Mine. The BNSF load will soon follow the UP train... (more)

On a cool October 8, 2018, a westbound BNSF manifest freight train works through Marias, Montana, after crossing the summit of Marias Pass on the railroad’s Hi Line Subdivision.

Led by Conrail GE B36-7 No. 5057, CR piggyback train TV1 rolls toward Chicago at Chesterton, Indiana, at 7:41 p.m. on June 30, 1990.

First shift paint shop supervisor David Smith takes inventory of the Scotchlite Union Pacific lettering used on the sides of locomotives that aren’t adorned with the large flags, such as hood un... (more)

Union Pacific EMD SD9043MAC No. 3598, along with several other units, is stored behind the shop at UP’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 18, 2015. Larger shield and w... (more)

Rainy day in Arkansas
Union Pacific EMD GP38-2 No. 689 is in the process of being rebuilt into a GP38N at UP’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, on a rainy May 20, ... (more)

Storm clouds build over Homestake Pass as a Montana Rail Link ballast empty heads upgrade to the loader at Spire Rock at Pipestone, Montana, on October 3, 2022. This train is operating on a portio... (more)