The South Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad climbs one of the steepest grades in the state of Kansas with a train of aggregate cars on a warm spring day. Photo by Bob Plough.

The Lubbock & Western Railway’s “Fantastic 4.” Locomotives featuring all four of the line’s paint schemes sit in the Lubbock yard on a sunny morning awaiting their next job. Photo by Caelan Rhoades.

A rainbow arches over the loading racks at the Fryburg Dedicated Terminal in North Dakota after a rainstorm. Photo by Watco Pumper Operator Elliot Bercier.

The team at the Queens Dedicated Terminal in New York City uses its Shuttlewagon to haul empty waste containers and help remove the city’s waste. Photo by Gregory Grice.

A Watco Australia East crew climbs through the Mingela Range in Queensland with its first Northern Division cattle train. Photo by Kyle Gleeson.

Watco’s Kanawha River Railroad runs a weekend manifest job around the curve past the grain elevator at Truro Station in Columbus, Ohio. Photo by Kyle Wheeler.

A pair of Watco Australia East locomotives navigate curves with a loaded grain train in Queensland. Photo by Jacob Howard.

Two Wisconsin & Southern Railroad locomotives sandwich a cut of outbound military vehicles near Milton, Wisconsin, as the train heads to interchange in Madison. Photo by Ross Stone.

An afternoon thunderstorm pours rain as the Wisconsin & Southern Railroad passes through a rock cutout on its approach to North Freedom, Wisconsin. Photo by Sam Foster.

The South Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad team and a customer transload a massive transformer between a truck and a specialized railcar in Thayer, Kansas. Photo by Watco Conductor Todd Callahan.