Passing a trio of horses foraging for food through the snow, Union Pacific’s LJP44 “dirt train” local from Salt Lake City to Helper makes its way downgrade at Kyune, Utah, on December 1, 2004.

BNSF GE C44-9W No. 4495 leads a coal train as it crests Angora Hill at Angora, Nebraska, on the northward trip to Alliance on May 23, 2014.

Burlington Northern EMD SD70MAC No. 9563 leads an eastbound coal train over Main Street in Monmouth, Illinois, on June 29, 1997. BN purchased a large fleet of these 4,000 hp, A.C. traction locomot... (more)

Helm Leasing Corp. (HLCX) EMD GP38-2 No. 3849 in in the middle of getting a power assembly replaced at Union Pacific’s Kansas City Locomotive Facility on October 22, 2013. The old faulty assembly ... (more)

A spring snowstorm blankets the Denver, Colorado, area as Union Pacific locomotives rest into the night of April 15, 2013, at UP’s former Rio Grande North Yard locomotive facility.

With a hearty turn to the right, Creston Road is going the same place as this eastbound Chicago & North Western freight train. In about two thousand feet, both will be traversing through the town ... (more)

Union Pacific EMD SD70M No. 4831 is having its No. 5 wheel set/traction motor assembly replaced at UP’s Kansas City Locomotive Facility in Kansas City, Missouri, on October 21, 2013. After removin... (more)

On the eastern edge of Jasper National Park, Canadian National train 303 exits Brule Tunnel and approaches Park Gate, Alberta, on the afternoon of July 12, 2014. Leading the train is CN EMD SD70AC... (more)

Union Pacific’s Denver to Phippsburg freight rumbles through Rocky, Colorado, on the afternoon of October 23, 2011. Three levels of track can be seen here, and the freight will negotiate them all ... (more)

Crews from Hulcher and R.J. Corman move a track panel with a side boom caterpillar while cleaning up a derailment at Lakeside, Nebraska, on BNSF’s Sand Hills Subdivision. The derailment happened o... (more)

Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr curves into Mendota, Illinois, on its trip over Burlington Northern’s Chicago to Galesburg main line on April 16, 1988.

After an almost completely stormy and rainy day in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, a southbound BNSF coal train is south of Bill as it casts itself against a sky illuminated by the setting sun on Ma... (more)

Burlington Northern train 3 softly reflects in the Mississippi River as it heads west of Savanna, Illinois, late in the afternoon of April 3, 1993. Trailing the BN EMD SD40-2 leading the train are... (more)

A view from above inside the main shop building at Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, sees locomotives gathered for rebuild and overhaul, including UP EMD SD40-2... (more)

Behind Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop is an outdoor yard with “used” locomotive parts. Components such as fuel tanks, cabs, plows, various hood sections—such as this EMD long hood from some... (more)