A Conrail freight rumbles eastbound between Otis and Pinola, Indiana, on the railroad’s busy Chicago to Elkhart main line on the morning of February 11, 1995.

Another winter day in Montana comes to a close with the Clark Fork River Valley turning cold and blue from the dimming sky and snow. A setting sun flirts momentarily with the clouds to the west wi... (more)

California’s Tehachapi Mountains are dressed in spring green, as an eastbound BNSF steel coil train exits Tunnel 1 and slogs up the grade between Caliente and Bealville on February 27, 2016.

As the blue hour settles over Denver, Colorado, on December 7, 2015, Union Pacific GE AC4400CW-CTE No. 5687 sits inside the cavernous main hall of the former Rio Grande backshop at Burnham Shops. ... (more)

Grand Trunk Western caboose trails a northbound GTW freight at McCook, Illinois, in August 1984. The train just crossed the Santa Fe main line, and in the background, a southbound Indiana Harbor B... (more)

As a BNSF unit oil train plods past at Trout Creek, Montana, on February 5, 2023, it’s time to get back to the trackside fire and relax again as the DPU rolls west.

Low clouds hang in the Clark Fork River Valley at Trout Creek, Montana, as a BNSF unit oil train cruises westbound on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision on February 5, 2023.

UPY EMD GP15-1 No. 610 sits in the sandblasting bay at the paint shop at Union Pacific’s Jenks Shop in North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 19, 2015. After all the desired paint and lettering is ... (more)

Amtrak’s westbound Southwest Chief departs Chicago for Los Angeles on a forty-one hour journey through America’s heartland and southwest on the afternoon of April 17, 2009.

At Bensenville, Illinois, on September 13, 1987, Milwaukee Road EMD SD40-2 No. 174 leads a locomotive consist back to their train at the west end of Bensenville Yard. Soo Line has owned the Milwau... (more)

Looking like a Zephyr streaking through northern Illinois on the C&I, or maybe across Iowa farmland on the Q main line, is Chicago, Burlington & Quincy EMD E5 No. 9911-A and the Nebraska Zephyr Bu... (more)

Coming and going with a pair of Metra commuter trains operating on the BNSF west line in a view from Roosevelt Road overpass on April 17, 2009. Metra EMD F40PHM-2 No. 200 has been idle for a while... (more)

A pair of Conrail SD50s power westbound CR ELIC, a freight from Elkhart Yard in Indiana to Illinois Central, just east of Dolton Junction, Illinois, on December 3, 1988. The train is meeting a sho... (more)

An eastbound BNSF coal empty hurries across Bridge 62 at Tuscor, Montana, on September 17, 2011.

Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 No. 5371 sprints westbound through Spring Glen, Utah, on a fine February 2, 2005.