A Montana Rail Link helper set is on the point of a Burlington Northern Santa Fe priority freight heading west over Mullan Pass west of Helena, Montana, on July 1, 2001. The train is crossing curv... (more)

Amtrak’s California Zephyr passes the site of Tunnel 41, removed many years ago by Rio Grande, in Little Gore Canyon approaching Radium, Colorado, on the afternoon of September 19, 2023.

Conrail trains swap power at La Porte, Indiana, alongside the railroad’s busy Chicago to Elkhart main line on September 11, 1988. New Conrail B40-8 No. 5085 is only four month old, built by Gene... (more)

Powered by a pair of Rio Grande EMD GP60s, a summer run of Ansco’s Rio Grande Ski Train works upgrade through Clay, Colorado, on the morning of July 15, 2000.

Powered by CSXT EMD GP15-1 No. 1523 and trundling down the old Rock Island line from Bureau Junction to Peoria, is a short three-car CSX freight train heading southbound at Putnam, Illinois, on a ... (more)

Kasey and his dog watch a westbound BNSF Q train climb the 2.2 percent grade of Mullan Pass from his land on the outside of the big curve encircling Iron Ridge above Austin, Montana, on June 26, 2... (more)

Amtrak’s eastbound California Zephyr drops downgrade through Kyune, Utah, after surmounting Soldier Summit on the morning of February 8, 2005.

A BNSF coal train reflects in the still water along the Clark Fork between Heron and Noxon, Montana, while running eastbound on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision on the afternoon of June 28... (more)

It’s a spectacular autumn morning in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania on October 23, 1988. At famous Horseshoe Curve west of Altoona, a pair of Conrail EMD SD40 pushers lean into a westbo... (more)

Just south of Crabtree, Oregon, on September 27, 2016, an Albany & Eastern Railroad log train has just crossed Oregon State Highway 226 leaving town. The train is returning from the Teevin Bros. l... (more)

Santa Fe red-and-silver Warbonnets can be seen on a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight at Rollinsville, Colorado, on the afternoon of July 29, 2000.

Conrail EMD SD40-2 No. 6394 and SD50 No. 6737 roll through a curve with a westbound freight at Hudson Lake, Indiana, at 1:04 p.m. on September 10, 1988.

From the cab of Wisconsin Central EMD SD45 No. 6520 pulling a passenger special is a view of a meet with a northbound WC freight led by WC SD45 6502 roaring by on the main at March, Wisconsin, on ... (more)

An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight exits Tunnel 1 and fills the horseshoe curve at the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon as it drops downgrade between Plain and Clay, Colorado, on a dry Ja... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s MMISLAU freight, also known simply as the ML, heads downgrade passing milepost 215 on Winston Hill between Winston and Townsend, Montana, on October 14, 2023. Leading the tra... (more)