My, what big radiators you have
With all of the added emission restrictions over the last couple of decades, the cooling capabilities of modern locomotives demand larger radiators, culm... (more)

Amtrak’s 50th anniversary locomotive painted in Heritage I colors, GE P42DC, No. 161, leads the eastbound California Zephyr into the horseshoe curve at Coal Creek Canyon between Plainview and Ei... (more)

While Bighorn Divide & Wyoming Railroad EMD GP38-2 No. 2001 and SW1500 No. 1001 switch the yard at Bonneville, Wyoming, on June 22, 2016, a southbound BNSF freight passes the South Siding Switch o... (more)

Led by Iowa, Chicago & Eastern EMD SD40-2 No. 6432, a Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern freight is westbound at Dakota Junction, Nebraska, on July 14, 2008.

Montana Rail Link SD45 No. 346 has some work done in the running repair shop at the railroad’s Livingston Shop on May 7, 2012. MRL 346 was built by EMD in May 1970 as a high-nose Norfolk & Weste... (more)

An eastbound Canadian National coal empty rolls through Robertson’s Curve leaving Swan Landing, Alberta, on the afternoon of July 13, 2013.

An eastbound BNSF freight hauls some freshly-rebuilt Union Pacific autoracks eastbound between Hope and Clark Fork, Idaho, on February 13, 2024. The newly-painted cars won’t stay like this long ... (more)

A westbound Norfolk Southern coal train, led by Altoona-rebuild “admiral cab” EMD SD60E No. 6943, curves out of Duffield, Virginia, on May 12, 2014.

A Grand Trunk Western freight heads northbound through McCook, Illinois, on the afternoon of December 5, 1987. GTW No. 6405 is a former Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad EMD GP38, joining the GTW... (more)

Amtrak’s California Zephyr dashes its way west through a winter wonderland at Crescent while slowly climbing Colorado’s Front Range mountains on March 15, 2024.

On March 15, 2024, after 42 inches of snow fell on Crescent during a major Colorado Front Range storm, the view of snow-covered scenery from Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr would have been ... (more)

An eastbound BNSF freight is in the clear in the siding at Rocky, Colorado, on January 19, 2002, and a man is on the ground to inspect Union Pacific’s MDVRO working west on the main line.

Rolling through beautiful Utah red rock country bordering Arches National Park, a 13-car Union Pacific Potash local approaches multiple curves nearing Emkay, Utah, on March 4, 2012. This is a form... (more)

Led by BNSF EMD SD70ACe No. 8758, an eastbound BNSF grain train rumbles through Noxon, Montana, on the morning of June 28, 2019.

A Canadian Pacific coal train heads north on the railroad’s Windermere Subdivision between Cranbrook and Wasa, British Columbia, on July 15, 2011.