BNSF 8755 (SD70ACe) leads a colorful consist through Hudson, Colorado on the Brush Sub.

Norfolk Southern, Penn Central Heritage unit 1073 NS 1017, leads a northbound coal train N07 on the ex Monongahela Railway, at Clarksville, Pennsylvania. October 25, 2012. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

NS 12R rounds the sweeping curve in Blackstock, making their way to their next crew change point at Linwood, NC.

Glow Little Glow-Worm: NS 28X with the Illinois Terminal Heritage Unit on point curves through Alpha, NJ. NS 4116 (AC44C6M; rebuilt from C44-9 NS 8850 in July 2018) is the trailing unit.

Norfolk Southern gathered their then-new heritage units at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in July 2012 to show them off to several thousand visitors who attended over the 4th of July wee... (more)

BNSF 8420 (SD70ACe) muscles a loaded coal train through the Keenesburg Cut as it heads west on the Brush Sub towards Denver, Colorado.

A BNSF Stacks and Racks train heads under downtown Seattle with a NS SD70ACe shoving on the rear.

ON THE CSX, NS, Norfolk Southern, 1069 Virginian heritage unit- and 7653, with eastbound CSX Q138, BF290 CSX Pittsburgh sub at, Smithton, Pennsylvania. October 18, 2017. Jack D Kuiphoff photo ©

Shawsville Shove: NS 1092 grinds up the grade through Shawsville, Virginia, as it brings empty grain train NS 51X westbound. The train makes its push toward Bluefield, West Virginia.

UP 1989 brings its train off the MacArthur Bridge as it approaches the interlocking at Valley Junction and its crew change destination in Dupo, IL.

BNSF 8994 North leads an empty coal train back to Wyoming's Powder River Basin as it descends UP's Main Two track after topping over the summit of the Palmer Divide. On BNSF's Main One track, a lo... (more)

UP's MGJNY accelerates out of the siding at 'Troublesome' after a meet gone wrong with a westbound coal empty. Both trains were too long for the meet at 'Troublesome' so the empty coal train was f... (more)

A Montana morning unfolds on a Northbound BNSF SD 70ACe no, 9116 rolls along the rich grasses of the Clark Fork River with a load of Coal.

With a good string of cars from Guadalupe, Union Pacific SD70ACe no. 8893 cruises south along Emma Wood beach as the sun sets offshore on a clear evening.

An empty coal train crosses Rockville Bridge on a crisp autumn afternoon.