New aluminum coal gons glow in the afternoon sunshine as a Burlington Northern coal train rolls through a curve west of Lyons, North Dakota, on August 10, 1991. The train is led by equally-new BN ... (more)

Santa Fe’s 791 train flies across the Illinois Route 17 overpass between Ancona and Reading, Illinois, on the afternoon of May 15, 1993.

Union Pacific’s shiny A-B-A set of EMD E9s power a passenger special into Grimsby, Illinois, on April 26, 1993, just after completion of a complete rebuild at Paducah, Kentucky.

Passing milepost 215 east of Winston, Montana, a westbound BNSF manifest freight slowly climbs Montana Rail Link’s grade up Winston Hill on the afternoon of July 6, 2018.

At 7:31 a.m. on May 15, 1993, an eastbound Santa Fe intermodal train speeds through Toluca, Illinois, led by Super Fleet GE B40-8W No. 517.

Burlington Northern EMD SD7 No. 6054 sits stored at the railroad’s locomotive facility in Clyde Yard at Cicero, Illinois, in November 1983. The locomotive was built in December 1952 as Chicago, ... (more)

Wisconsin Central train 51 thunders over the crossing with Wisconsin & Southern at Slinger, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of April 14, 1997. The structure on the right advertises locally-famous Stor... (more)

A family ice fishing watches and waves at a BNSF grain train rumbling over Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Montana, on the afternoon of February 5, 2022. Not far away on the edge of open water, a quinte... (more)

Four of a kind
An eastbound Soo Line intermodal train zips through Duplainville, Wisconsin, led by a locomotive with a lot of fours—Soo Line EMD GP38-2 No. 4444—on April 15, 1997. I... (more)

Amtrak EMD F40PH No. 260 gets a foamy bath inside the wash building at Amtrak’s locomotive facility in Chicago, Illinois, on February 22, 1992.

Soo Line train 214, powered by lone EMD SD60M No. 6061, waits for a signal at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on November 27, 1992. Passing by on the main line is Amtrak train 338 to Chicago, substituted wi... (more)

Under a near picture-perfect sky, a Wisconsin Central freight heads northbound out of Duplainville, Wisconsin, on March 15, 1996. The train is powered by Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 119, and ... (more)

A BNSF coal empty snakes into Lombard, Montana, on the morning of June 25, 2020, while rolling eastbound on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision main line through Lombard Canyon.

The old U.S. Highway 95 truss bridge now carries only footprints in the snow, replaced years ago by a new, modern bridge just to the west, conveying the road over the BNSF’s busy former Northern... (more)

An eastbound Wisconsin & Southern passenger special has a former California Zephyr dome-observation car carrying the markers as it passes a WSOR local at Middleton, just west of Madison, Wisconsin... (more)