Randy, a volunteer for the Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, makes welds in bolt holes below the coupler housing where a plate will hold the coupler's draft gear and the coupler its... (more)

Metra 126 makes a stop at Arlington Park with inbound train 662 as the annual fireworks show takes place.

Taking In Her 70th July 4th. As the sky above lights up, Fillmore & Western Railway F7A No. 100 rests below as the veteran locomotive takes in its 70th Independence Day. Built in 1949 for t... (more)

Fireworks from Arlington Park explode over an inbound Metra making a station stop.

L&N E8A 796 rests at the Bowling Green depot while July 4th festivities continue in the neighborhood behind the depot.

UP 1111 rests at Global II in Northlake, Illinois as a firework show takes place in the background.

Quite possibly falling into the top ten sunsets that I have ever seen, a string of midwestern supercells loom over the old Naperville, CB&Q depot. Being out later on a Wednesday afternoon, althoug... (more)

Painted in its signature Rio Grande tribute scheme, Pennsylvania Northeastern Railroad SD40-2W 5342 (ex-CN 5342) sits in Lansdale, PA on the night of Saturday, May 18, 2019. Fireworks in the backg... (more)

A special run out of the Sandaoling open Pit coal mine with what is called the "Sparkly Train". The crew runs the steam locomotive hard on the edge of wheel slip and creates an amazing show of bur... (more)

A welder inside Union Pacific’s De Soto, Missouri, car shop repairs a freight car truck side frame on September 28, 2011.

Fireworks begin to fill the night sky this July 4th as one of the larger pieces of equipment at the Pueblo Railway Museum, the Baldwin Locomotive Works built 4-8-4 steam locomotive Santa Fe 2912, ... (more)

At Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, a welder (boilermaker by trade) carefully builds new lower pilot assemblies for the railroad’s SD40N rebuild program on... (more)

A Burlington Northern coal train powered by a matching quartet of GE C30-7s is ready to leave Alliance, Nebraska, on the eve of July 4, 1996. Courtesy of Mother Nature, the fireworks are starting ... (more)