Two big machines work in tandem: one for laying concrete ties, the other, for laying welded rail. The crew here is adding a second main track between Knightsen and Oakley, CA, on Santa Fe's Stockt... (more)

Milwaukee Road 3030 West approaches the big tunnel under the Bitterroot Mountains. The railroad later renumbered the lead EMD to 160. Apparently this freight was light enough to forego a lead Litt... (more)

Not long before sunset, a quartet of UP Railpower RP20 gensets switches Peach Yard with a local.

FWWR 2004 South, the Cresson Local, leaves the double crossing at Tower 60 behind and prepares to accelerate through Ft. Worth.

UP grain empties head north on BNSF's Ft. Worth Sub at Tower 60. The train is about to cross the Trinity River. UP inherited the trackage rights from SP, that railroad having got them as a conditi... (more)

Late in the day, Santa Fe 9551 East roars up the Sacramento Wash at Yucca, AZ. Besides eroded material, this area is laced with volcanic basalt.

As a UP freight heads south on Choctaw Main One, BNSF 4516 North heads toward Saginaw on the Ft. Worth Sub.

An eastbound San Joaquin rips through Knightsen at 79 mph with a UP Pittsburg Local idling in the long siding. Note the slightly different paint schemes on the two UP GP15-1s.

A couple of ACEs push on BNSF coal empties as they head north on UP's Duncan Sub. The train will likely take UP's Choctaw Sub north to Denison where it will jump onto BNSF's Madill Sub.

Just before sunrise, an empty BNSF grain train comes down the hill and pass CP Bredenberg and heads north for another load.

Early on a Saturday morning, a southbound BNSF manifest crosses a concrete trestle a half mile south of where Tower 60 used to stand.

As a low sun lights up the clean colors on a pair of UP SD40Ns, they switch Peach Yard and prepare to depart for a Trinity Railcar facility to the north. Between us and the local are two other tre... (more)

Late on a beautiful afternoon, WP GP40-2 No. 3555 leads a fast-paced eastbound through Kingdon, CA, several miles south of Thornton. Most famous for its drag strip, Kingdon was dead quiet most aft... (more)

BNSF 3921 North heads up UP's Choctaw Main One as a Ft. Worth & Western FWCR local waits for the northbound to pass. As soon as he's by, the FWWR local will head south toward Cresson, TX.

As a UP southbound heads down Choctaw Main One on a steel trestle, a pair of SD40Ns switches Peach Yard with a local. In the foreground is a concrete trestle on BNSF's Ft. Worth Sub.