Amtrak’s Illinois Zephyr, operating between Chicago and Quincy, Illinois, flies through Naperville at 6:05 p.m. on April 15, 1989. The train of three Amfleet cars is pulled by EMD F40PH No. 348.

A westbound Union Pacific manifest freight climbs Peru Hill west of Green River, Wyoming, on the afternoon of June 25, 2021.

On March 11, 1989, a set of Chicago Central & Pacific locomotives rumble by Corwith Tower. This tower protected the Illinois Central (formerly ICG/GM&O) with Santa Fe tracks into Corwith Yard, and... (more)

At 9:10 p.m. on July 2, 2022, a BNSF unit oil train rolls through some dusky atmosphere in the Clark Fork River Valley between Heron and Noxon, Montana.

Traversing scenic Thompson River Canyon, a 25-car Rocky Mountaineer Railtours passenger train approaches Ashcroft, British Columbia, on September 28, 2015.

On the clear afternoon of July 7, 2022, a BNSF coal train heads west over Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Montana, while making good time over Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision main line toward S... (more)

The friendly crew of an eastbound Canadian National coal train poses with lead locomotive, CN GE ES44AC No. 2900, at Embarras, Alberta, on railroad’s Foothills Subdivision on August 8, 2016.

A Canadian National coal empty rolls through the 7,037-foot siding at Embarras, Alberta, on railroad’s Foothills Subdivision on August 8, 2016.

A pair of Indiana Harbor Belt EMD SW1500s power a northbound IHB freight approaching the Santa Fe main line diamonds at McCook, Illinois, on September 13, 1986.

BNSF’s Cowley turn out of Greybull, Wyoming is running northbound through otherworldly landscape along the Bighorn River between Spence and Himes on the morning of June 24, 2019.

A westbound Canadian National trackage rights train on Burlington Northern, now the newly formed Burlington Northern Santa Fe, rolls out of Chicago at Highlands, Illinois, and is greeted by good f... (more)

A fascinating maze of trackage outside Chicago Union Station is about to be negotiated by an outbound Metra commuter train on April 17, 2009.

A westbound Conrail stack train creates its own snowstorm as it rolls through New Carlisle, Indiana, in lake-effect snowfall from frigid temperatures blowing off Lake Michigan on January 15, 1994.

Burlington Northern local freight 11451 rolls smartly through Highlands, Illinois, powered by a pair of leased former Reserve Mining EMD SD38-2s on a sunny March 15, 1992.

Powered by a pair of brand new GE ES44C4s, Florida East Coast train 226-11 curves through St. Augustine, Florida, on January 12, 2015.