Grand Trunk Western streamlined 4-8-4 steam locomotive no. 6409 leading an eastbound passenger train out of Chicago's Dearborn Station on February 2, 1952. Photograph by Wallace W. Abbey, collecti... (more)

On an overcast August day in 1962, an eastbound Soo Line freight train, led by two F-units and a geep, is crossing the St. Croix River high bridge between Minnesota and Wisconsin. Photograph by Wa... (more)

Dead locomotives abound at the Milwaukee Road’s West Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Shops in this 1980 view from the 35th Street Viaduct. Earlier in the year, the bankrupt railroad had ceased operations ... (more)

Five Milwaukee Road GP-series diesels rest on the garden tracks next to the turntable at the railroad’s West Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Shops in 1984. In the following year, the bankrupt railroad wou... (more)

Amtrak’s westbound Empire Builder arrives at Columbus, Wisconsin, in 1974. Leading the train is Burlington Northern F7 no. 9736, still in Great Northern paint. Several Northern Pacific baggage c... (more)

Westbound Union Pacific freight train behind 4-12-2 no. 9047 charging through Lawrence, Kansas, on Christmas Eve, 1950. Photograph by Wallace W. Abbey, collection of the Center for Railroad Photog... (more)

Baltimore & Ohio no. 6708 at Camden Station in Baltimore, Maryland, on August 15, 1964. The H-16-44 class road switcher was built in 1957 by the Fairbanks-Morse Company. During 1989 construction b... (more)

Cable car in San Francisco, California, in 1959 on the California Street Line near the intersection with Stockton Street. The California Street Line dates back to 1878 and Leland Stanford’s Cali... (more)

Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 no. 608 surrounded by freight cars in the yard behind Denver Union Station in 1958. Photograph by more)

BNSF southbound passing the big red barn at Greenland, Colorado, on the Joint Line in July 2002. Photograph by more)

Denver & Rio Grande Western K-37 2-8-2 no. 491 leading an eastbound extra freight train up Cumbres Pass at Windy Point, New Mexico, in July 1961. Photograph by more)

L&N freight at Birmingham, AL led by GP38-2 #4088 in June 1973. Photograph by Fred M. Springer ... (more)

BN coal train at Childress, TX in August 1992. Photograph by Fred M. Springer and courtesy of t... (more)

ATSF local freight, engine no. 3637, crossing the big bridge over Alamito Creek near Presidio, Texas, on March 26, 1984, as seen from the caboose. This was on the line from San Angelo to Presidio,... (more)

Santa Fe #809 leads a train through Abo Canyon, New Mexico, in this June 1995 scene. Photograph by Fred M. Spr... (more)