An eastbound BNSF intermodal train accelerates off of the hill as it passes Dayton's Bluff and heads out of the Twin Cities.

The tail end of a westbound BNSF intermodal train passes under the pedestrian bridge at Kansas City's Union Station. Eastbound Southwest Chief and Missouri River Runner trains are wa... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific manifest passes under the Broadway bridge and accelerates into the morning light at Union Station. The tail end of an eastbound Missouri River Runner waiting to d... (more)

A widecab SD70 and a ratty GE snake their way past the Western Auto building and Union Station as they lead a westbound string of autoracks through Kansas City.

An empty BNSF grain train wraps around a curve at Webb Road east of Walton. The conductor is preparing to ring up the UP dispatcher and copy a warrant on the UP Lost Springs Sub, as the train will... (more)

It's not long after sunrise as a ratty triclops leads a local racing southeast out of Wichita on trackage rights over the BNSF mainline.

A local freight with a green SD40 and SD60M rolls westward past the old grain elevators of Knox.

It's a cold autumn evening as a westbound unit grain train runs wrong main through Epping to pass a stalled manifest freight on the other main.

A westbound manifest freight rests silent just west of Epping in the last light of the day.

After receiving a fresh crew, a westbound string of autoracks accelerates out of Minot and soars over the Gassman Coulee trestle.

Harvest is in full swing as one shuttle grain train waits on the Niles loop while another breezes past on the mainline.

A Heritage I Dash 9 has made its way onto the point of a loaded shuttle grain train on the loop at Niles, waiting for another shuttle train to pass before entering the mainline and heading west.

A loaded shuttle grain train crosses a raised stretch of track and bridge over the lake on the east side of Churchs Ferry. The reconstruction occurred circa 2012 in a joint investment between BNSF... (more)

A loaded shuttle grain train climbs around a curve and over a rise as it passes the vintage elevator in the small town of Doyon.

A loaded shuttle grain train breezes westward through Michigan behind a pair of Dash 9s. This town was the site of a 1945 train wreck that became the deadliest in the history of the Great Northern... (more)