Union Pacific Challenger No. 3985 rattles an old grain elevator at Yoder, Wyoming, on September 23, 2003, pulling a long passenger train eastbound toward South Morrill, Nebraska.

As seen in a panned photograph from the West Santa Fe Road overpass just east of Edelstein, Illinois, Santa Fe EMD SD45 No. 5357 leads an eastbound freight down Edelstein Hill on August 20, 1988. ... (more)

A bitter cold winter day has caused a rail break on the Wisconsin Central main line entering Shops Yard near the Subway Road grade crossing at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on December 11, 1994. c... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific coal train curves out of Pinecliffe, Colorado, on September 4, 2000. The train is arcing through one of the sharpest curves on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision, at what I b... (more)

It’s 8:47 p.m. as the sun sets in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin on June 21, 2020. A southbound Union Pacific coal train grinds to the crest of Logan Hill on Track 1, while a BNSF coal load picks up... (more)

An eastbound BNSF empty unit oil train drops down the 2.2 percent ramp of Evaro Hill and is approaching the junction with Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision at DeSmet, Montana, on the afternoo... (more)

Running up the Tenth Subdivision, Montana Rail Link’s night gas local is westbound out of Arlee, Montana, on June 26, 2020.

A westbound BNSF freight curves over the causeway between Noxon and Heron, Montana, at 7:51 p.m. on June 27, 2020. Nice to see some Montana Rail Link blue mixed in this far west on the Fourth Subd... (more)

Led by EMD GP40-3 No. 302, Copper Basin Railway’s unit train approaches the Highway 177 grade crossing at Ray, Arizona, late in the day on April 20, 2017.

BNSF’s Denver to Laurel freight enters Himes Canyon along the Bighorn River just west of Himes, Wyoming, on the morning of July 3, 2020. Himes Canyon is located between the sidings of Himes and Ka... (more)

A Montana Rail Link helper set coasts downgrade back to Livingston, Montana, after pushing a westbound BNSF train over Bozeman Pass. The westbound ruling grade from Livingston to West End is 1.8 p... (more)

Passing fields of young corn plants, a Santa Fe intermodal train sprints eastbound out of Ancona, Illinois, on June 26, 1993.

On September 27, 2016, Portland & Western EMD GP39-2 No. 2307 leads the American turn northbound over a low ballasted deck wood trestle in the lowlands of the Willamette River at it heads to Harri... (more)

Milwaukee Road’s Pacific Extension main line crossed the Missouri River at Lombard and began the climb following Sixteen Mile Creek through appropriately-named Sixteen Mile Canyon, eventually reac... (more)

Union Pacific autorack No. ETTX No. 801625 is in the final process of being rebuilt at the railroad’s car shop at De Soto, Missouri, on September 28, 2011. After painting and lettering of the fini... (more)