Montana Rail Link’s 844 local drops back to the Fifth Subdivision main line with eight tank cars from the petroleum facility at Logan, Montana, on June 26, 2017. Milwaukee Road’s line to Bozem... (more)

An obvious former Milwaukee Road unit, WAMX EMD MP15AC No. 1598 sits at Columbia Falls, Montana, while operating for Mission Mountain Railroad on October 7, 2018. The Soo Line black patch “bandi... (more)

An eastbound BNSF coal train snakes along the scenic Missouri River as it approaches Trident, Montana, on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision on September 26, 2007. Powering the train is BNSF... (more)

A San Luis & Rio Grande photo freight, powered by 2-6-0 No. 1744, aims at La Veta Pass east of after departing Alamosa, Colorado, at first light. This is a special photo freight operated by the ra... (more)

The sun has just cracked the horizon on the morning of September 20, 2007, as San Luis & Rio Grande’s former Southern Pacific 2-6-0 No. 1744 works toward La Veta Pass east of Alamosa, Colorado. ... (more)

Autumn in Glacier country
A westbound BNSF grain train exits Tunnel 4 and curves along the Middle Fork of the Flathead River just east of West Glacier (Belton), Montana, on October 8, 20... (more)

The grittiness of a big city like Milwaukee can be seen in this view of a southbound Hiawatha service Amtrak train crossing the Menomonee River Bridge moments after departing Wisconsin’s largest... (more)

While following the Missouri River through Lombard Canyon, an eastbound BNSF grain train passes Toston Dam east of Toston, Montana, running on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision on the morni... (more)

At 3:15 p.m. on August 20, 1988, an eastbound Santa Fe trailer train, led by AT&SF EMD F45 No. 5975, drops downgrade off Edelstein Hill just west of Chillicothe, Illinois.

Climbing the two-percent ramp out Leyden, Colorado, under stormy skies is Union Pacific’s westbound MDVRO manifest freight on the afternoon of October 29, 1999. Six locomotives power the train, ... (more)

A Conrail autorack train, led by CR GE C40-8W No. 6098, approaches Chicago & North Western’s Proviso Yard at Northlake, Illinois, on February 9, 1992. On the left, C&NW EMD SD38-2 No. 6654 switc... (more)

Milwaukee Road EMD GP40 No. 2001 leads Soo Line train 249 westbound out of the yard at La Crosse, Wisconsin, on October 3, 1987. A man in the elevated signal tower on the right still manually cont... (more)

On a crisp, breezy October 6, 2018, an eastbound BNSF grain train crosses the long bridge over Lake Pend Oreille at Sandpoint, Idaho.

An eastbound BNSF freight drops downgrade on Montana Rail Link’s Winston Hill east of Winston, Montana, on the morning of July 1, 2020.

Powered by a pair of EMD SD40-2s, an eastbound Burlington Northern intermodal train follows a frozen Mississippi River into Savanna, Illinois, on the afternoon of January 30, 1993.