On the last day of 2016 the skies of Arizona put on a show as the sun peeked out from a winter storm. The light was insane as an Eastbound stack train is passing through Canyon Diablo.

Lost within a scene of vast color and hovering cloud cover, a northbound BNSF manifest drifts down and out of the Allard horseshoe and is approaching tunnel 2, under what seems like a display of a... (more)

DPUs bring up the rear of a northbound BNSF grain train descending down the Tehachapi Loop in the moments after sunset on a warm summer day.

Echoing GE locomotives, from a very long BNSF stack train, roar through the green hills of Tehachapi climbing the grade in early morning light, above the Tehachapi loop at Marcel. The upper elevat... (more)

Happy New Year everybody, see you all trackside in 2018. A morning BNSF Z rounds into Avery along the Columbia River. Mount Hood looms in the distance on this windy morning.

Back in the days when borrowed/old power was seen more often on the hill. Nearing the end of it's journey across the mountain, this BNSF intermodal is rounding the sweeping curve at Cameron Canyon... (more)

Echoing GE locomotives, from a very long BNSF stack train, roar through the green hills of Tehachapi climbing the grade in early morning light, above the Tehachapi loop at Marcel. The upper elevat... (more)

During many attempts to capture the Milky way over the Tehachapi Loop this past summer, I came away with numerous images like this. A meet is taking place with a northbound slowing to a stop on th... (more)

One of the greenest seasons I've ever seen in the Tehachapi's was back in February 2016, after a ton of rainfall dropped on the mountain that January, and then in early February there was a lot of... (more)

A westbound stack train claws at the 2.2% grade across skyline Trestle. This rock out cropping has long been a favorite place to spend a lazy summer afternoon.... You can watch trains here for a ... (more)

Burlington Northern lives in Sheep Canyon.... The BNSF (BN) Cowley Turn charges out of Sheep Canyon on the return leg to Greybull, Wyoming. The deep defile along the banks of the Big Horn River is... (more)

BNSF DPUs help bring their manifest slowly down the Tehachapi's in the mid morning of a spring day.

A northbound BNSF intermodal glides into Caliente, CA.

A westbound manifest climbs the 2% grade exiting Tunnel 29. Beyond the tunnel the train is wrapped around the tightest curve on the Moffat Road; 12 Degrees......

The natural light from the starry sky lights up the iconic landmark in Californian railroading. A BNSF northbound is seen painting out the right of way while descending down the mountain and the T... (more)