Keokuk Junction Railway power (EMD FP9s Nos. 1750 and 1752, and GP20 No. 2003) pass a farm just east of Cuba, Illinois, on April 7, 2016. The locomotives are running light to Bushnell to switch th... (more)

The angled nose of Canadian National EMD SD40 No. 5220, a trailing unit on CN train 348 at Savanna, Illinois, on Burlington Northern’s C&I line on the afternoon of August 21, 1994.

Along Jasper Lake in scenic Jasper National Park, Canadian National intermodal train 192 is eastbound at Windy Point, between Snaring and Devona, Alberta, on July 19, 2011. Powering the train is a... (more)

Chicago Central & Pacific EMD GP10 No. 8199 leads an eastbound train out of the curved tunnel at East Dubuque, Illinois, on March 10, 1991. Tunnels are rare in Illinois—this one, and three on the ... (more)

The fields are plowed and the crops are planted on this spring day of April 26, 1997, as a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight led by a pair of Santa Fe locomotives hustles through Leed... (more)

Standing on the crumbling abutments of Milwaukee Road’s impressive curved bridge over the Missouri River, we watch a distant storm skirt the ghost town of Lombard, Montana, at sunset on June 29, 2... (more)

Metra EMD F40PH-3 No. 179 powers an inbound commuter train passing through CP Taylor approaching Chicago Union Station on a snowy November 11, 2019.

The sky darkens, signaling winter storms approaching the Clark Fork Valley of Montana on the afternoon of February 5, 2021, as a westbound BNSF grain train crosses the causeway separating Frog Pon... (more)

Sitting on the station track at Jasper, Alberta is VIA Rail train 5, former known as the Skeena, waiting for departure time on July 19, 2011. The short four-car train led by EMD F40PH-3 No. 6411 t... (more)

VIA Rail train 5, former known as the Skeena, waits for departure time at Jasper, Alberta, on July 19, 2011. Carrying the markers for the 4-car train is Park-series sleeper buffet-dome observation... (more)

Metro-North EMD FL9 Nos. 2021 and 2007 power a northbound commuter train through the signals at milepost 55 at Breakneck Ridge north of Cold Spring, New York, on May 23, 1993.

Still earning its keep
Montana Rail Link’s Helena local with eight cars flies up Winston Hill at milepost 215 east of Winston, Montana, on the afternoon of June 25, 2020. MRL EMD GP9 No... (more)

An eastbound Southern Pacific (subsidiary St. Louis Southwestern, more commonly known as the Cotton Belt) freight train crosses the massive Thebes Bridge over the Mississippi River jointly owned w... (more)

Running through a foot of freshly fallen snow, Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 rolls northbound at milepost 7 between Adams and Dupont on the Greeley Subdivision on November 26, 2019. After departi... (more)

A Union Pacific coal train crossing County Road 27, led by EMD SD70ACe No. 8677 and GE AC4400CW No. 6190, has just about finished unloading at the Xcel Energy Hayden Station power plant on Septemb... (more)