A brilliant orange sunset reflects on an eastbound coal drag as it thunders through Iowa Park on the outskirts of Wichita Falls, TX.

14,000 tons are on the drawbar of the BNSF 712 as it pulls a Kansas City, KS to Barstow, CA manifest train over Yampai Hill. With a 3x2x1 power configuration, the KCKBAR still struggles up the 1.4... (more)

An eastbound Z-train snakes its way through Crozier Canyon as it grinds up the 1.4% grade of the canyon.

Intermodal Storm Chaser | Dark clouds loom over the town of Aurora, MO where an eastbound intermodal train is cruising along on the mostly cloudy morning of Saturday, May 4, 2024.

Midwest Morning | A well-used SD70ACe and a "warbonnet" dash-9 lead a westbound manifest freight train through Aurora, MO shortly after a quick rain shower on the morning of Satur... (more)

Stacks from Long Beach, CA to Memphis, TN negotiates the tight curves of Crozier Canyon as the sound of three GE prime movers battling the grade echo throughout the canyon.

BNSF 1826 (SD40-2 in old school paint) sits in the engine servicing yard in Denver, Colorado.

BNSF 712 leads a 14,000 ton Kansas City, KS to Barstow, CA manifest train across the hogbacks of Hackberry. All 9,000 ft of train can be seen as the red and silver warbonnet painted Dash-9 notches... (more)

The hot Willow Springs, IL to North Bay, CA Z1 waste no time climbing the 1.4% grade of Yampai Hill as the sound of three GE motors roar in notch 8.

BNSF 8115 (ES44C4) leads a stack train through Littleton, Colorado as it heads south on the Joint Line.

BNSF 6295 (ES44AC) runs through the snow and the trees between Tolland and Rollinsville, Colorado.

Rollinsville, Colorado is getting a heavy dose of snow as BNSF 6295 (ES44AC) runs east on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

BNSF 6295 (ES44AC) runs through the trees west of Rollinsville, Colorado on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

The BNSF still operates about 100 miles of ex-MILW mainline in western Iowa. Bayard Local LHLA609 works 5 days a week out to Bayard doing local work. Here the job slowly heads back to Council Bluf... (more)

Local switching power at Sioux City on the BNSF. The power is parked at the northend of the yard where the Sioux City Sub meets the Marshall Sub. Kind of neat looking GP30 on the rear end.