A single QJ-class 2-10-2 steam locomotive leads a westward mixed freight train through the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, near Chaganhada Station on the Jitong Line.

Two shopworkers adjust the running gear of a QJ-class locomotives at Daban, just two months prior to the end of steam. In the background lurks one of the many DF4-class diesels that replaced the Q... (more)

On the Hegang Coal Railway in northeastern China, an afternoon passenger train creates a traffic jam as it steams through a busy level crossing. The steam in the foreground is from a food vendor's... (more)

Four men who unload coal by hand put down their shovels and head to lunch at Huanan, a city of over 100,000 in China's far northeastern Heilongjiang province. The trains on the 30-in. gauge railwa... (more)

A fireman on the Huanan Narrow Gauge Coal Railway trims coal in the tender of C2-class 0-8-0 no. 168 during a stop at Xiahua Station. Xiahua, 12 miles east of Huanan, is a common meeting point for... (more)

A section gang on the Huanan Narrow Gauge Coal Railway prepares for their evening meal on the outskirts of Tuoyaozhi, a village of about 10,000 people in Heilongjiang Province. Despite such amenit... (more)

An eight-car coal train steams up the grade out of Lixin with 0-8-0s pulling and pushing. Each car on the 30-in. railway carries about 15 tons of coal, giving the total train about the same capaci... (more)

Union Pacific's six-days-a-week manifest from Hinkle, Oregon, to Spokane, Washington, heads north at dawn through the deep cut at Palouse Falls State Park.

Montana Rail Link's daily easbound manifest, the ML from Missoula to Laurel, Montana, crests the summit of Mullan Pass at Blossburg near sunset in July 2005.

The St. Maries River Railroad's inbound Clarkia Logger crosses its namesake at Alder Creek, Idaho. Behind the two ex-Milwaukee Road GP9s are 50 loads of logs from the Potlatch reload in Clarkia an... (more)

On the last day of the 2004 NFL regular season, a westbound Norfolk Southern intermodal train passes Cleveland Browns fans tailgating in the snow. The Browns lost to the playoff-bound San Diego Ch... (more)

An eastbound Norfolk Southern freight train passes over, in front of, and behind three of the many bridges spanning the Cuyahoga River valley in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.

At sunrise in Cleveland, Ohio, the first-trick bridge tender starts his shift on Norfolk Southern's former Nickel Plate Road drawbridge over the Cuyahoga River. In the next eight hours, this opera... (more)

Westbound Norfolk Southern mixed freight crossing the mouth of the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, as blue dusk falls on a gray winter day and seagulls search for food.

The South Branch Valley's Chessie-painted GP9, no. 6240, leads a short Petersburg Turn northward along the railroad's namesake river shortly after departing Petersburg, West Virginia. The water le... (more)