
Jeff Abrahamson
Climax #9 (6) departing the Water Tower at Cass, West Virginia, on November 3, 2019. © Jeff Abrahamson

Den Adler
Panama Canal Railway engine no. 2521 travels across Panama, on March 13, 2018. The railway is owned and operated by Kansas City Southern (thus the paint scheme). © Den Adler

Rick Ahern
A westbound BNSF stack train in Lupton, Arizona, on May 7, 2019. © Rick Ahern

Bob Alkire
Utah Transit Authority commuter tram on the Blue Line heading to Salt Lake Central Station. © Bob Alkire

Jennifer Anderson
Maintenance crew of UP Big Boy 4014 checking the locomotive during a stop at Strasburg, Colorado, in November 2019. © Jennifer Anderson

Eugene Armer
At daybreak on October 24, 2019 in the Hudson River Valley, the Bear Mountain Bridge provides the backdrop for a CSX manifest freight crossing Popolopen Creek in Fort Montgomery, New York. © Eugene Armer

Ben Bachman
Snow at the summit of Cima Hill, with an eastbound stack train on the Union Pacific Cima Sub. © Ben Bachman

Bob Bahrs
NJ Transit 4638 out of Parsippany, New Jersey, on April 24, 2019. © Bob Bahrs

Robert Banke
Northwestern Elevated Railroad #24 at the Illinois Railway Museum's 2019 Showcase Weekend, on September 14, 2019. © Robert Banke

Rob Barnes
UP Big Boy passes through Wheaton, Illinois, on July 26, 2019. © Rob Barnes

Eric Baumgartner
A Norfolk & Western Class J 611 photo special hosted by the Strasburg Railroad in Ronks, Pennsylvania, on Sunday morning, October 6, 2019. The westbound train is rolling through Amish country and putting on a great show of steam and smoke while pulling a consist of vintage-appropriate freight cars. © Eric Baumgartner

Bryan Bechtold
The Big Boy heads for Cheyenne on the last leg of its southwest tour in Commerce City, Colorado, on November 26, 2019. © Bryan Bechtold

John Behrens
Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Golden Spike, Union Pacific restored Big Boy #4014. The locomotive was captured at Point of Rocks, Wyoming on its westbound run from Cheyenne to Ogden as an eastbound doublestack passed. © John Behrens

Greg Beirise
Amtrak's Pennsylvanian is westbound in Derry, Pennsylvania, on May 3, 2019. © Greg Beirise

James Belmont
Amtrak's California Zephyr traces the route of the Denver & Rio Grande Western through the remote but stunningly beautiful east Utah desert region near Thompson Springs, on April 19, 2019. © James Belmont

Jon Bentz
BNSF Sumas Turn crossing a slough between Everett and Marysville, Washington on a very foggy afternoon. © Jon Bentz

Doug Bess
The Lithonia yard crew in Georgia sees off local heading eastbound (southbound timetable direction) toward Augusta, on April 30, 2018. © Doug Bess

Tom Biery
Cleaning ash pan of Cumbres & Toltec K-36 No 488, at Antonito, Colorado, on October 9, 2019. © Tom Biery

Jerry Bohlander
Train emerging from sunset afterglow in Carrizozo, New Mexico, on November 10, 2010. © Jerry Bohlander

Darryl Bond
A loaded Ulan coal train arrives just before light evaporates in Hunter Valley, Australia, on August 2, 2019. © Darryl Bond

William Botkin
Re-creation of the DL&W “Scrantonian” westbound passenger train at Port Morris New Jersey, in June 1953. © William Botkin

Ron Bouwhuis
A slow shutter speed blurs the graphics on the lead locomotive of a passing westbound CN train at Brampton, Ontario, Canada, on May 11, 2019. © Ron Bouwhuis

Gene Bowker
Norfolk Southern of the Cargill Elevator switch engines in Gainesville, Georgia, on April 10, 2020. © Gene Bowker

Glen Brewer
Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad in Antonito, Colorado, on October 1, 2019. K-27 Mikado No. 463 was built by Baldwin in 1903 as a Vauclain compound. Of the 15 engines in this group, only two remain, and only this one is still on tracks of the former D&RG. © Glen Brewer

Grégoire Brossard
A train lead by a VL8 locomotive crosses the Dniepr River around the industrial city of Zaporijia, Ukraine, on September 29, 2019. © Grégoire Brossard

Greg Brown
Amtrak train #517 in front of the Vancouver, Washington Depot, on May 26, 2019. © Greg Brown

Michael Brown
Iowa Pacific 515 pulls through Round Lake, Illinois, on October 3, 2014. Slit-scan image created from a high speed video sequence. © Michael Brown

Stewart Buck
Enveloped in an awe-inspiring spectacle of steam, Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 departs Boone, Iowa in a dramatic display of brute power, on July 16, 2019. After an overnight stay, 4014 is on its second day (July 16) of the 2019 Great Race Across the Midwest Tour. The locomotive and its nine-car consist will travel 22 miles east on former Chicago and North Western's double-track main line to Nevada Junction. © Stewart Buck

Chris Burger
TPW local heading north on former PRR crossing of former NKP Indianapolis to Michigan City main line in Kokomo, Indiana, on February 7, 2020. Caboose is a display along the "Nickel Plate" hiking and biking trail. © Chris Burger

Rodney Bushway
Bangor and Aroostook Railroad shops in Derby, Maine, on February 10, 2020. © Rodney Bushway

Andrea Capiola
Westbound BNSF intermodal crossing over the Skykomish River in Index, Washington, on March 21, 2020. © Andrea Capiola

Brian Carlson
A Tazewell & Peoria Railroad train ambles along the downtown Peoria, Illinois riverfront on its return to the railroad's classification yard in Creve Coeur after working local industries. Trailing SW1500 #1521 are five tank cars from PMP Fermentation Products and two flatcars of heavy mining truck equipment from Komatsu America Corporation. © Brian Carlson

Dave Carney
A Norfolk Southern unit ethanol train crosses the Susquehanna River at Rockville, Pennsylvania. © Dave Carney

Kevin Cavanaugh
UP Big Boy 4014 on the move between Yermo and Daggett, California, on October 9, 2019. © Kevin Cavanaugh

Andy Chandler
BNSF 6790 and NS 270 parked in a paved yard in Augusta, Georgia during the 2019 Masters Golf Tournament. © Andy Chandler

Matthew Chapman
The newly-restored Union Pacific "Big Boy" pulls into the yard in Rawlins, Wyoming after its first full day of travel from Cheyenne, Wyoming, on May 4, 2019. © Matthew Chapman

Renaud Chodkowski
One of the last loco-hauled train between Strasbourg and Paris pictured east of France at Sorcy - St.Martin, on February 28, 2019. © Renaud Chodkowski

Gary Clark
South Shore train 118 arriving at Ogden Dunes, Indiana, on November 12, 2019. © Gary Clark

Bill Clynes
Steam Railroading Institute North Pole Express trip just northwest of Owosso, Michigan en route to Ashley, Michigan, on December 21, 2019. © Bill Clynes

Robin Coombes
Ivatt Class 2MT tank No. 41241 built in 1949 for British Railways, on March 7, 2020. It was one of the original Keighley and Worth Valley Railway engines saved for the preserved railway and headed the reopening train in June 1968. It was overhauled in 2018 to celebrate 50th anniversary years of the railway and re-painted in the original red livery when the railway reopened. © Robin Coombes

John Cowgill
The B&O President Washington (left) and the C&O Hudson (right) seen at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum on February 29, 2020. © John Cowgill

Dan Cupper
Norfolk Southern Train 776, an eastbound coal movement with Engs. 8102 (Pennsylvania Railroad heritage unit) and 4226 and DPU helpers on rear 8036-3678 crosses Sherman's Creek Bridge, Duncannon, Pennsylvania, on the NS Pittsburgh Line. © Dan Cupper

Keith Dart
Amidst Illinois’s COVID-19 “Stay at Home Order”, recently fire-damaged UP Flag Unit C45AH #2676 sits silent, towed behind the softly idling chug of CP AC4400CWM #8064 as they await a Southbound Green on Track #1 with a string of empties, just short of the gate sensor at Metra North District’s “West Deerfield” Greenwood Ave., Crossing #388047U, on April 10th, 2020. © Keith Dart

Roger Dart
Three-truck Shay #5 at the Illinois Railway Museum, on September 2, 2019. © Roger Dart

Reese Davies
Intermodal flatcars at Kelso Depot in Kelso, California, on July 26, 2019. © Reese Davies

Mike Del Vecchio
Bayway refinery in Elizabeth, New Jersey still buzzes with work at sunset on December 24, 2019. © Mike Del Vecchio

Travis Dewitz
Cold weather makes good steam as this JS Class locomotive demonstrates leaving the coal mine's "Blue Loader" in Sandaoling, China, in 2018. The shift is almost over for this crew as they make one last trip to the washery after they climb out of the pit. Upgrade trains take the far right at 82 Station while downgrade trains will use the center track. The far left track seen here is a shunting neck used for trains to work around each other in the loading area. © Travis Dewitz

Charles Dischinger
Cedar Gap, Missouri, on April 7, 2020. © Charles Dischinger

Bill Diven
Passengers at Los Angeles Union Station wait as a late-departing Amtrak No. 2, the Sunset Limited, backs down Track 10, on August 7, 2019. © Bill Diven

Tim Doherty
A pair of MBTA Light Rail Cars wait for passengers to board at Lechmere Station in Cambridge, Massachusetts before heading into Boston, on January 29, 2020. © Tim Doherty

Ben Duncan
Rotary Snowplow OY works through a snow flurry at Coxo Crossing on the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad in New Mexico, on March 1, 2020. © Ben Duncan

Robert Edmonson
A Union Pacific stack train travels westbound on the former Rock Island Golden State Route in Dalhart, Texas, on March 10, 2019. © Robert Edmonson

Stacey Evans
Intersection 3889 from Amtrak Auto Train in Virginia during Spring 2019. © Stacey Evans

Neill Farmer
The 'Overland' a daytime passenger train between Melbourne and
Adelaide, Australia, at Moorabool Victoria, on Saturday March 21, 2020. © Neill Farmer

Tom Fleming
East Troy Railroad Museum during the the 2019 Christmas Train approaching the Christmas Village. © Tom Fleming

John Fredrickson
California Zephyr, Amtrak Train #5, arrives in Sacramento, California at 1:54 PM on Saturday, September 22, 2018. Image was taken during lunch break during the Center for Railroad Photography & Art’s West Coast Conference. © John Fredrickson

Bon French
An Arizona Eastern SD90/43MAC parked at a Circle K Shell station in Clifton, Arizona, on September 5, 2010. With literally no track in front of the engine, it appears the crew pulled up for a fill up at the gas station. More likely, the crew went in for some cold drinks and a snack and got as close as they could. © Bon French

Alan Furler
Railway Station at Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, on November 10, 2019. The tourist dinner train runs down to Victoria Falls Bridge and then backtracks about ten miles to Jafuta Siding. The engine is Zambian Railways No. 204 (formerly Rhodesian Railways), a 12th Class 4-8-2 built in Scotland by North British Locomotive Co. © Alan Furler

Bob Gallegos
BNSF 7670 is greeted by Roadside America's Pinky the Elephant in Marquette, Iowa, on February 13, 2019. © Bob Gallegos

Jim Gattis
Cars being switched at the west end of BNSF’s Monett yard by their Springfield Local #817, on April 4, 2016. © Jim Gattis

Bob Gilly
UP 4014 just west of Glen Ellyn, Illinois, on July 26, 2019. © Bob Gilly

Steve Glischinski
Southbound CN local in Burnett, Minnesota, on January 1, 2019. © Steve Glischinski

Jackson Glozer
Rochester and Southern train RS-1 has all four locomotives working hard as it nears the crest of the grade south of Leroy, New York, on January 17, 2020. A partly cloudy sky offered up some amazing lighting as the train worked its way through the landscape of upstate New York. © Jackson Glozer

David Goldberg
Ghost Conductor for Halloween, the Pine Creek Railroad Wall, New Jersey, 2019. © David Goldberg

Jim Griffin
Switched crossing at Yarmouth, just east of St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada – the left line is the abandoned CASO (Canada Southern and successors), the right is the Grand Trunk (now Ontario Southland); still in service. The crossing was removed in 2019. 13 October 2017 at 9:38 AM. © Jim Griffin

Jon Habegger
UP "Big Boy" 4014 crossing the Fox River in Geneva, Illinois, on July 30, 2019. © Jon Habegger

Todd Halamka
Rustbelt Cities of Steel. Arcelor Mittal Mill, Cleveland, Ohio, Fall 2019. © Todd Halamka

George Hamlin
Metra train 2153 at Lake Forest, Illionis, following the opening night of the Center's Conversations 2019 conference on September 13, 2019. © George Hamlin

Ross Harrison
On March 2nd, 2020, Canadian Pacific oil train 580 passes a former MPE (Manitoba Pool Elevators) grain elevator at Arden, Manitoba, on CP’s Minnedosa Subdivision. Train 580 was loaded with Alberta crude oil in Hardisty, Alberta, and will be handed off to the Norfolk Southern in Chicago for delivery to a refinery in Reybold, Delaware. © Ross Harrison

Kevin Hass
A worker walks past the National Forum, a Pullman Sleeping Car, which is owned by the Pacific Railroad Society, at the Los Angeles Union Station Garden Track, on May 23, 2019. © Kevin Hass

Oren Helbok
BR&W student engineer Nick Nastasi, on December 14, 2019. © Oren Helbok

Paul Hensler
Grand Canyon Railway north of Williams, Arizona, on March 3, 2019. © Paul Hensler

George Higgins
Los Angeles Railroad Heritage Foundation visit to Southern California Rail Museum to see UP 942 (EMD E-8) and ATSF 108 (FP 45), on April 25, 2019. © George Higgins

Dave Hill
Norfolk Southern westbound home signal at East Avery, Ohio (now ERIE), on the former Nickel Plate Bellevue-Buffalo line; MP 234.9 (about 13 miles east of Bellevue); sunset on May 10, 2019. © Dave Hill

Thomas Hillebrant
A westbound loaded grain train rolls toward the setting sun on the BNSF Pasco-Portland mainline along the Columbia River in Whitcomb, Washington, on February 14, 2020. © Thomas Hillebrant

George Hiotis
An NJ Transit train crosses the foggy Raritan River entering New Brunswick, New Jersey, on March 29, 2020. © George Hiotis

Tom Hiscox
CN in British Columbia, Canada near Quesnel, on September 13, 2019. © Tom Hiscox

Noah Hofrichter
Viewed from a few hundred feet above the river's west bank at Dubuque, Iowa, a quintet of BNSF GEs and an EMD are beginning to accelerate a westbound BNSF intermodal train back up to track speed out of East Dubuque, Illinois, on October 25, 2019. © Noah Hofrichter

Richard Jahn
Southern Shorthaul Railroad S312 leads the Deniliquin rice train through the state of Victoria towards Melbourne, Australia, on March 7, 2019. © Richard Jahn

Daniel Johnson
KCS Business Train traveling eastbound at track speed through Edwards, Mississippi, on the KCS/NS Meridian Speedway on August 21, 2019. The train is destined for Meridian, Mississippi, where it will spend the night before departing the next morning for Atlanta, Georgia, with KCS and NS officials on board. © Daniel Johnson

Gary Johnson
DMV&W 5454, an SD50F, leading a short early morning arrival in Bismarck, North Dakota, on February 21, 2020. © Gary Johnson

Phil Johnson
Man poses at Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway Museum, in Alna, Maine. © Phil Johnson

Jerry Jordak
Three Allegheny Valley SD40-3s bring their daily interchange job through Allegheny Commons Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on its way to Norfolk Southern's Island Avenue Yard, on June 22, 2019. Behind the train is the park's Civil War monument. © Jerry Jordak

David Kahler
Two coaling towers at Northern Maine Junction, Maine, on September 15, 2019. Looking between the ragged legs of the Maine Central RR tower that was originally connected with a conveyor over the rail yard tracks to the Bangor and Aroostook RR tower built by Roberts/Schaffer Co, Chicago, Illinois, in 1928. © David Kahler

Benjamin Kauffman
Union Pacific's 4014 steams across the Colorado plains just southeast of Limon, Colorado, on November 23, 2019. © Benjamin Kauffman

Frank Keller
An Alaska Railroad freight hugs the shores of Turnagain Arm as they make their way north towards Anchorage on a bitterly cold but sunny winter's day, on March 13, 2020. © Frank Keller

Jim Kindraka
A westbound NS container train passes a large storage shed in Waterloo, Indiana, on August 3, 2019. © Jim Kindraka

Nick King
"West Country Class" Pacific 34027 "Taw Valley" departs Hampton Loade for Bridgnorth on the Severn Valley Heritage Railway in Worcestershire, England, on July 7, 2019. © Nick King

Charles Kinzer
Dawn at San Luis Obispo, California, on October 8, 2018. © Charles Kinzer

John Kirchner
Konan Tetsudo, Japan's 42-inch gauge "Apple Country Interurban" in Aomori Prefecture operates two rural single track lines, each of which has an unusual winter snow plow operation. Here on February 6, 2020 is westbound "Russel Plow" #104 at Inakadate, pushed by locomotive ED-333, a 1923 Baldwin-Westinghouse electric motor. © John Kirchner

Tom Kline
Standing atop the tender of D&RGW K-27 2-8-2 463 hauling an excursion on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic, fireman Carlos Gonzales watches the water level intently as he fills the tender at the Los Pinos, Colorado water tank, on October 26, 2019. © Tom Kline

Jim Knutsen
Inside the cab of Union Pacific 4014 while on display in Duluth, Minnesota at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum, on July 20, 2019. © Jim Knutsen

Hank Koshollek
WSOR engine 4219 leads freight as it heads to Ripon towards Oshkosh, Wisconsin, on October 14, 2019. © Hank Koshollek

Ken Kraemer
Amtrak no. 63 on the former New York Central line (now CSX) between Buffalo and Niagara Falls, New York, on February 8, 2020. © Ken Kraemer

Miško Kranjec
On March 26, 3019 the crew at the Slovenian Railways' Museum in Ljubljana-Šiška, Slovenia prepares a new driver set for the museum's steam locomotives, Consolidation No. 25-026, built in 1920 at Wiener Lokomotiv Fabriks A.G. in Floridsdorf, Vienna. © Miško Kranjec

John Krattinger
A Black Mesa & Lake Powell empty hopper train led by four former National of Mexico E-60 electric locomotives rolls through the barren Arizona landscape on the Navajo Reservation in August 2019. A slight haze was caused by a forest fire burning near the Grand Canyon. © John Krattinger

Ryan "Kris" Krengel
Lake State Railway "Santa Train" departing Grayling, Michigan southward down the former NYC line towards Saginaw, Michigan, on December 8, 2019. © Ryan "Kris" Krengel

Sean Lamb
An afternoon inbound Metra train boards its first passengers at Elburn station, on August 21, 2015. © Sean Lamb

Alex Lang
A northbound empty iron ore train on the CN’s Bessemer Sub north of Butler, Pennsylvania, originally the Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad. Three SD70’s of Illinois Central heritage hustle the train through Calvin Yard on June 29, 2019. © Alex J. Lang

Neil Lang
VIA Rail’s eastbound Canadian under a rising full moon at its station stop in Capreol, Ontario on February 19, 2019. © Neil Lang

Duncan Langtree
Steam engine Merchant Navy Class 35018 British India Line at Scout Green climbing towards the famous Shap Summit in the United Kingdom, on December 1, 2019. © Duncan Langtree

Steven Lanphear
CB&Q #9911, an E5 engine, Illinois Railroad Museum, in 2019. © Steven Lanphear

Lance Lassen
French National Railway local trains arrive and depart from Paris Gare du Nord, on June 4 2019. © Lance Lassen

Christopher Lau
Union Pacific excursion train with Big Boy 4014, and 844 double-heading just coming over Peru Hill in Granger, Wyoming, on May 6, 2019. © Christopher Lau

Laura Lawrence
Amtrak's San Joaquin No. 717 at the Avenue 112 and Highway 43 crossing in Angiola, California, on March 15, 2020. The manure compost piles at the local dairy had caught fire and created a dramatic smoke display against the storm clouds. © Laura Lawrence

Jerry Libby
Rolling stock formerly of the Taiwan Sugar Corporation, located at the Chiayi Suantou Zhecheng Cultural Park in southern Taiwan, on April 18, 2016. The locomotive on the left is Diema 0-6-0 #151. © Jerry Libby

Bill Linley
RJ Corman engine no. 3812 pulls a freight train through Mullins, South Carolina, on February 15, 2019. © Bill Linley

Bruce Loppnow
Two Canadian Pacific diesels pull a mixed freight train through the CN taconite loading facility in Duluth, Minnesota, on April 20, 2019. © Bruce Loppnow

Scott Lothes
A new dawn will come, and the trains will run again. Rhaetian Railway trains prepare for another day of service outside the shops in Landquart, Switzerland, on February 24, 2020. © Scott Lothes

Dave Love
Now in regular service, Canadian Pacific heritage unit no. 7016 leads a unit train of potash as it climbs Notch Hill, British Columbia, passing the landmark abandoned church on December 29, 2019. © Dave Love

Ken Lundy
UP Westbound, Track #1 at Ciénega Creek / Ciénega Canyon, Arizona (Near Vail, AZ), on February 24, 2020. © Ken Lundy

David Maiers
VIA Rail Canada train 692 rushes around a curve near Bield, Manitoba, on April 4, 2020. © David Maiers

David Mainey
B&O S-1b 538 (Ex 6222) with engineer William Logan on fueling stop at Warwick, Ohio, on October 12, 1957. © David Mainey

Matthew Malkiewicz
The conductor minds his narrow gauge caboose as the Locust Heights & Western Railroad Climax steam locomotive powered logging train leaves Clarksburg, West Virginia, early in the morning, on October 26, 2019. © Matthew Malkiewicz

Stephanie Marshall
Norfolk Southern locomotives lead a sand train with some nice fall foliage on the Union Pacific Wyeville Subdivision near Black River Falls, Wisconsin, in 2018. © Stephanie Marshall

Jeff Mast
Cumbres & Toltec Steam Rotary Plow "OY" clearing the line on the 4% grade toward Cumbres Pass at Coxo, Colorado, on March 1, 2020. © Jeff Mast

Mike Matejka
Southbound Chicago Transit Authority Santa Train leaving Merchandise Mart Station and crossing the Chicago River, on December 5, 2019. © Mike Matejka

David Mattoon
A "now" photo of the 1900 Frost & Granger C&NW station in Lake Forest, Illinois taken 116 years after the "then" picture was published. Most obviously missing now are the women's waiting room chimney at left and the warming shelter chimney at right. Further right, the elevated crossing tower for Deerpath is gone. And the between-two-tracks barrier fence was more substantial. The dormers windows were removed sometime between 1958 and 1960. All platform shed roofs were truncated with gable ends c. Sept. 1960 to allow for more parking spaces. The 2011 restoration led by the Lake Forest Preservation Foundation re-created the slate roof, the dormers, and the hip roof ends of the platform sheds. © David Mattoon

Dee Matyas
Arcelor Mittal steel mill in Cleveland, Ohio, on August 18, 2019. © Dee Matyas

Chris May
There's no chance of a white Christmas for commuters awaiting the arrival of an inbound Metra train at the Elmurst, Illinois train station on Christmas Eve 2019. © Chris May

Jenny McCarthy
CP 2301 and 2222 lead a freight train in Hastings, Minnesota, on July 15, 2018. © Jenny McCarthy

Steve Mccarthy
CN Waukesha Sub in Southeast Wisconsin of a CN SB with the CN 5401 leading a Herzog ballast train, on March 13, 2017. © Steve Mccarthy

Richard McQuade
The sun is setting on December 28, 2019 as iconic TTC 4042 and a few of her sisters complete thirty years on Toronto’s streets on the last day of revenue service for the CLRVs (Canadian Light Rail Vehicles) seen here passing the Princes’ Gates of the Canadian National Exhibition. © Richard McQuade

Tim Medema
CP 8769 in the Canadian Rockies west of Banff, Alberta, Canada, in June 2018. © Tim Medema

Rob Mesite
Virginia & Truckee Railroad engine #29 pulls a freight train over the line at sunrise headed towards Virginia City, Nevada on a Lerro Productions photo charter, on February 20, 2020. © Rob Mesite

Jim Mielke
Canadian Pacific no. 199 approaching Columbus, Wisconsin, on April 4, 2020. © Jim Mielke

Alan Miller
Cilantro Fields Forever. 3305W hauls copper concentrate to the smelter in Fepasa, Chile, on June, 18, 2019. This area, about 70 miles from Santiago, is where much of the nation's cilantro grows. © Alan Miller

Arthur Miller
Landscape view of a UP freight train from Route 41 highway, looking east toward old Lake Forest, Illinois, on June 15, 2019. © Arthur Miller

William Miotek
UP 2685 East leads a long set of auto racks through the fresh snow at La Fox, Illinois, on January 16, 2020. © William Miotek

Chris Mohs
With the first snow of Autumn on the Rocky Mountains, Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad Baldwin K-36, 2-8-2 no. 486, exits the gorge into the Animas Valley and Silverton, Colorado, on September 24, 2016. © Chris Mohs

Michael Moran
After completing its main line trip, Illinois Railway Museum, former Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Diesel Locomotive E5 9911-A “Silver Pilot”, RPO 1923 and Nebraska Zephyr train set are seen returning to the museum East Union Depot, on September 14, 2019. © Michael Moran

Carl Morrison
WP&YR Steam Excursion on No. 73 in Skaway, Alaska, on August 1, 2019. © Carl Morrison

Peter Mosse
VR Pacific No 1016

Jim Mumford
BNSF 4219 on the BNSF Seligman Sub between Flagstaff and Williams, Arizona, on October 23, 2018. © Jim Mumford

Daryl Mundis
Morning voyage of Union Pacific 4014 and 844 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on May 4, 2019. © Daryl Mundis

Dale Muyskens
B&O Museum roundhouse in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 16, 2019. © Dale Muyskens

Craig Myers
Southern Railway & Norfolk and Western Railway heritage units in Greenville, South Carolina, on March 9, 2020. © Craig Myers

Tom Nanos
Valley Railroad Mikado #40 pulls up the grade in Chester, Connecticut with a sold-out North Pole Express train, on December 20, 2019. © Tom Nanos

Tyler Nolan
Westbound coal drag running along Thurmond, West Virginia’s main street, on March 1, 2019. © Tyler Nolan

Martin O'Toole
Southern Railway 4501 in disguise as L&N 1593 for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Historical Society convention in September, 2019. The locomotive was only in this garb for a very short time before being returned to the correct Southern freight scheme. Here, on September 28, 2019 the "1593" is ready for her portrait before a spin on the turntable at Summerville, Georgia. The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum frequently runs down the former CG line (now Chattooga & Chickamauga Railroad). © Martin O'Toole

Joseph Oparowski
Westbound Lake Shore Limited (449), led by P42 No. 145 Westborough, Massachusetts, on December 14, 2019. © Joseph Oparowski

David Oroszi
CN locomotive seen by operator Keith Robbins from tower in Marion, Ohio, on August 8, 2019. © David Oroszi

Gordon Osmundson
C&TS rotary snowplow OY plowing its way up Cumbres Pass on Feb 29, 2020. © Gordon Osmundson

Clayton Pape
METRA locomotive MP36PH-3S #425 in Rock Island on the morning of December 7, 2019 at Tinley Park, Illinois. It was on the special Will County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Polar Express fund raiser train. © Clayton Pape

Christos Pathiakis
Night freight on Austin & Western Railroad in Austin, Texas, on January 30, 2020. © Christos Pathiakis

Steve Patterson
Cumbres & Toltec takes water at Los Pinos, Colorado just short of Cumbres Pass, on September 24, 2019. © Steve Patterson

Laurence Pearlman
UP 8950 storms out of the tunnel near Taggart, Utah, on January 29, 2019. © Laurence Pearlman

Allen Pearson
Canadian Pacific and Norfolk Southern #8575 leads freight in Haymarket, Virginia, on January 26, 2018. © Allen Pearson

Howard Pincus
A worker shovels out a switch on the Naugatuck Railroad in Thomaston, Connecticut, on December 3, 2019. © Howard Pincus

Bart Pulverman
Foggy Morning at Sullivan’s Curve in San Bernardino County; California. © Bart Pulverman

Angela Pusztai-Pasternak
A BLS regional train at Interlaken, Switzerland, on September 20, 2019. © Angela Pusztai-Pasternak

Gerry Putz
Amtrak 30, Capitol Limited in Brunswick, Maryland, on January 7, 2020. © Gerry Putz

Mike Raia
British Railways 7828 at the West Somerset Railway in Minehead, United Kingdom, on September 6, 2019. © Mike Raia

Duane Rapp
"Winters Last Gasp." Waterloo/Cedar Falls, Iowa metro area during the winter of 2018/2019. © Duane Rapp

Cliff Redanz
NS units 8375, 7704 & 2617 haul eighty-three empty auto carriers westbound through Port Royal, Pennsylvania on ex-PRR trackage between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, on July 17, 2016. The train rounds a curve into town and ducks under the 106-year-old arch of Market Street bridge - urged on by a "Clear" on position-light signal 1512W. © Cliff Redanz

John Regan
As a SEPTA Regional Rail train heads north out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Amtrak train 2253 runs at track speed south towards a station stop at 30th Street Station, on January 26, 2020. © John Regan

Larry Sallee
Wisconsin & Southern Reedburg local rolls past the restored Chicago & Northwestern depot, now repurposed as the Waunakee, Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce, on December 28, 2017. © Larry Sallee

Juan Sanchez
BNSF 6985 leads a manifest train east of Spokane, Washington, joining a constant parade of trains racing eastbound in December 2019. © Juan Sanchez

John Sanderson
Storefront, Aberdeen, Ohio, 2019. © John Sanderson

John Sanner
Norfolk Southern locomotives above underpass, on Brush College Road in Decatur Illinois, on April 7, 2019. © John Sanner

Dean Sauvola
CN 5409 leads local train L520 eastward on the CN Barron Sub towards Ladysmith, Wisconsin and ultimately Stevens Point, Wisconsin, on January 20, 2020. © Dean Sauvola

Michael Sawyer
BNSF Local R-NWE7041-01 T, otherwise known as Crew 4, on a transfer from Tacoma to Seattle, Washington, on March 1, 2020. © Michael Sawyer

Bill Schafer
Southern Railway 630, Ks-2 class 2-8-0, leads Southern Railway 4501, Ms-class 2-8-2, on an excursion to Summerville, Georgia, on November 10, 2019. © Bill Schafer

Keith Schmidt
METRA #193 heads a local westbound train to Highland METRA Station in Hinsdale, Illinois, on June 25, 2019. © Keith Schmidt

Michael Schmidt
Eastern Montana from the rear of the Amtrak Empire Builder, in December 2019. © Michael Schmidt

Jeff Schramm
Union Pacific "Big Boy" 4-8-8-4 travels through Denison, Iowa, in July 2019. © Jeff Schramm

Jeffrey Schultz
Sounder 1512 deadhead move from the yard to Lakewood Station, Washington, where it will then change ends and depart for Seattle, on September 5, 2019. © Jeffrey Schultz

Russell Sharp
Eastbound VIA Rail Canada making a flag stop at Collins, Ontario, for two passengers to board, on January 30, 2020. The population of Collins is about 200. © Russell Sharp

Alan Shaw
A south-bound freight train just after leaving Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, crossing the peak hour traffic on the Logan Motorway, on the evening of January 10, 2019. © Alan Shaw

Chip Sherman
Highball signal for Amtrak’s Southwest Chief, Train 4, as the 7-car train passed ATSF T-2 style semaphore at West Siding Switch Chapelle, New Mexico, on March 2, 2020. BNSF’s Glorieta Pass Subdivision. © Chip Sherman

Scott Shields
Steam excursion of the Pere Marquette 1225, for the 50th anniversary of the Michigan State University Railroad club. The MSU RR club was the group that in 1969, started the effort to restore the PM1225, and some of the original members were riding on this excursion. This was taken on October 5, 2019, as the PM1225 crossed the Muskegon River, on her way between Mount Pleasant and Cadillac, Michigan. © Scott Shields

Alex Silka
Union Pacific's Big Boy restoration special crossing the Black River, at Black River Falls, Wisconsin, on July 24, 2019. © Alex Silka

Toni Skokovic
Canadian Pacific Railway’s Lambton Yard in West Toronto, Canada, in November 2016. This is a busy interchange rail yard melting into a up and coming neighborhood that grew around the railroad interchange in 1920s. © Toni Skokovic

William Snyder
Grain elevator in Pemberville, Ohio during the late summer of 2019. © William Snyder

Trevor Sokolan
A thin shaft of early morning sunshine illuminates the lead unit of CN Train L506 at Roma Junction, Alberta, on July 11, 2019. The crew is preparing to take their train laden with products from the northern region of the province south on CN's Peace River Subdivision. © Trevor Sokolan

Ralph Spielman
A 22-car Westbound VIA Rail Canada #1 is running late, affording those in the dome cars an unusual view of a clear twilight sky near Hargwen, Alberta, Canada, on March 14, 2020. © Ralph Spielman

Kurt Stetzer
The 706 Intermediate signals shimmer in the distance as time stands still in Springer, New Mexico, on November 8, 2019. © Kurt Stetzer

Michael Summers
East Broad Top Roundhouse in Rockhill, Pennsylvania, on June 30, 2018. © Michael Summers

Dale Sutor
UP "Big Boy" 4014 climbing Cajon Pass near Summit in California, on October 12, 2019. © Dale Sutor

Irene Szabo
Interior of the cab of the 4449 "Daylight" steam locomotive in Vancouver, Washington, in early June 2019. © Irene Szabo

Tom Taylor
Semaphores on BNSF's "Raton Line" in northeastern New Mexico as a thunderstorm generated rainbows to the east, on September 8, 2019. © Tom Taylor

Brian Thompson
A New York & Lake Erie Railroad fall foliage excursion approaching the tunnel at Dayton, New York, on October 19, 2019. The trip ran from the railroad's base of operations in Gowanda, New York to South Dayton, New York powered by former CN & VIA Rail FPA-2 #6758 and FPA-4 #6764. © Brian Thompson

Don Toon
Indiana Railroad #9013 leads (SAHW) Senate Ave to Hiawatha southbound through Morgantown, Indiana, on September 17, 2019. © Don Toon

John Troxler
During a frigid December 22, 2018 evening the Indiana Transportation Museum's Polar Bear Express, pulled by leased EMD E8 SLRG 101, starts the last run of the Christmas Holiday season with a load full of children excited to see Santa Claus. The train is crossing the North Crossing diamond, located in Kokomo, Indiana, which previously hosted the NKP and Pennsylvania Railroads passenger trains in days past, guarded by the ancient tilt board signal. © John Troxler

Ryan Trullinger
UP 4014 at Willow Island, Nebraska on August 5, 2019. © Ryan Trullinger

David Tuttle
Soo Line #1003 undergoes blow down as it is prepared for storage in Hartford, Wisconsin. © David Tuttle

Sam Ulrich
After a day of ‘At the Throttle’ sessions and a Christmas themed nighttime photoshoot, the Norfolk & Western J class 611 idled just outside the Bob Julian Roundhouse at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, on November 2, 2019. © Sam Ulrich

Roger Van Alyne
Locomotives 40 and 93 exit the engine house at Nevada Northern Railway's Ely Yard together in a staged shoot for one of the NNRY’s Winter Photography Workshops, on February 8, 2020. © Roger Van Alyne

Anthony Verbyla
School kids board an eastbound 15 Route Septa Trolley at the 63rd St. and Girard Ave. stop in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on January 23, 2020. © Anthony Verbyla

Mark Vollmer
Some of the vintage mid-20th century rail equipment at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, California. © Mark Vollmer

Otto Vondrak
Southbound Rochester & Southern Train RS-1 (Rochester-Silver Springs) at Warsaw, New York, on November 17, 2019. © Otto Vondrak

Charlie Voyda
Two volunteers grease the bearings of the Milwaukee Road 261 before an excursion the following morning, in June 2019. © Charlie Voyda

Ralcon Wagner
An unidentified eastbound BNSF container train arrives Kansas City on the Argentine flyover while an unidentified westbound Union Pacific train of empty aluminum hopper cars negotiates the Highline underneath to cross over the Kansas River into Kansas on a chilly December day. Both trains are shown are actually seen in both Missouri and Kansas simultaneously - the triple crossing at Santa Fe Junction straddles the state line. © Ralcon Wagner

E. Roy Ward
NS 9337 © E. Roy Ward

Carl Wassink
Alaska Railroad no. 4015 pulls loaded freight coming out of the Port of Whittier, Alaska, and "Spirit of North Pole" leads no. 4008 up the the Turnagain Arm on its way into Anchorage. © Carl Wassink

Philip Weibler
"Big Boy" Union Pacific #4014 in West Chicago, Illinois, on July 26, 2019. © Philip Weibler

Chuck Weinstock
VIA 6426 pulls out of Churchill to Winnipeg, Manitoba, on September 12, 2019. © Chuck Weinstock

John Wendelin
An eastbound CSX manifest train heading out of Frontier Yard in Cheektowaga, New York, on Saturday February 29, 2020. © John Wendelin

Charlie Whipp
Lake State Railway 1502 pulling the Dunn Paper mill at Port Huron, Michigan as the CN owned Presque Isle sailed out of lower Lake Huron and entered the Saint Clair River on a dazzlingly beautiful afternoon, on October 8, 2019. © Charlie Whipp

Chris White
KCS 2856 and 2849 powers the Rankin Turn at Brandon, Mississippi on the KCS Meridian Subdivision, on January 5, 2019. © Chris White

Bob Wilcox
Approaching Solitude. NS 4053 (GE AC44C6M) leads train 18T into Solitude, Virginia, on the morning of March 7, 2020. Solitude (MP H207) is on the NS’s Roanoke District between Roanoke and Shenandoah, Virginia. Today's train has a 3x2 locomotive configuration. © Bob Wilcox

Craig Williams
CN Eastbound Train U70691-09 travels east out Jesup, Iowa, passing a bald eagle perched on a code line pole, on February 10, 2020. © Craig Williams

Eric Williams
A NJ Transit train exits the right of way trench through downtown Summit, NJ enroute to Gladstone, New Jersey, on May 10, 2019. © Eric Williams

Mike Wilson
"Sunrise with the J": Norfolk & Western #611 breaks the early morning silence outside of the Verdant View Farm as the sun just barely breaks over the hills to the East, on October 5, 2019. © Mike Wilson

Jim Wilson
BNSF X5055 East at 17th Street Crossing in Wichita, Kansas, on March 15, 2019. The train is coming off the Wichita Highline constructed in improve clearances and eliminate grade crossings on the north side of downtown. © Jim Wilson

Jeff Wojo
The crew of a stopped BNSF train in Shabbona, Illinois begins to shut down their train for the night as another eastbound passes during a summer night in 2018. © Jeff Wojo

Brian Wong
#9's crew heads for beans after tying up at the station in Cass, West Virginia, on November 2, 2019. © Brian Wong

Patrick Yough
A railroad signal flashes a red light in Ivywood, Pennsylvania, on December 24, 2019. © Patrick Yough

Mike Yuhas
BNSF's San Bernardino-Willow Springs intermodal train Z-SBDWSP6-08L climbs the canyon into Kingman, Arizona eastbound on the former Santa Fe, on January 9, 2020. © Mike Yuhas

Дмитрий Лившиц
Steam engine П36 in the original "blue" color, on February 8, 2020. This locomotive П36-0027 drove the "Red Arrow" trains from 1954 to 1963 from the Bologoe station to Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). © Дмитрий Лившиц

陳韋哲 (Wei-Che Chen)
An air-conditioned cruise train hauled by a historic steam locomotive between Baishatun and Longgang stations of the Coast Line in Taiwan, on December 8, 2019. © Wei-Che Chen