GRAND PRIZE
PREVIOUS PAGES: It had rained hard during most of the night but ended as it was getting light on the morning of August 9, 2013. The threat of rain continued by spitting a few drops every now and then. A northbound CSX train approaches the famous street-running section and is about to begin its journey down the center of Main Street in LaGrange, Ky. —CHARLES DISCHINGER
ABOVE: It is Saturday, March 5, 1966, and a light late winter snow falls as Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific No. 621, an Alco DL109, is southbound at Mossville, Ill., with a three-car Train No. 11, the Peoria Rocket from Chicago. The time is 11:59 a.m. and the Rocket will be 20 minutes late on this day. —ED JOHNSON
RIGHT: With Grand Canyon Railway 2-8-2 No. 4960 slowed to a crawl at the grade cross- ing, three saddled cowboys find they have more than enough time to cross the tracks and head for the ranch at the end of the day. The scene is from a Lerro Productions charter at Quivero, Ariz., just before sunset on May 14, 2011. — MITCH GOLDMAN
OPPOSITE: A late year snowstorm may have slowed nearby roads, but Union Pacific’s Chester Subdivision is still operating at full ca- pacity. On December 29, 2012, a manifest freight is silhouetted among a canvas of white while pointed southbound through Fults, Ill. — JAKE BRANSON
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