From atop a small rise along BNSF's busy Needles Sub between Essex and Goffs, 6822 west races along the desert floor with a hot Z9 in tow.

A Utah Railway coal empty zigs and zags through Price Canyon at Kyune. The 104 car train will load at Savage on the CV Spur near Wellington.

Round the curve into Afton Canyon, U 8608 leads a MWCNP manifest east across the California desert as the sun begins to set.

8391 is starting to dig in its heels for the long climb up Donner Pass.

BNSF 6762 leads a long stack train around one half of the Trinidad Loop.

A BNSF Z train heads west down Trinidad loop. Today's train is handling Boeing loads in addition to normal intermodal traffic. This train had just completed a set out of refrigerated containers at... (more)

At 9:40am, a three-plus hour late Coast Starlight rolls across the Dry Creek Trestle among the lava lands of Mount Shasta. A normal crew change would've occurred at K-Falls but due to the delays ... (more)

The desert mountains and canyon walls dwarf this Utah coal load as it heads up the 2.4% plank towards Solider Summit. The Utah Railway currently hauls coal from the Wild-Cat and Savage load-outs.

BNSF 7579 leads a stack train west through Kingman canyon.

The BNSF officer's special emerges from the tunnel climbing its way out of Celilo on its way south.

A late afternoon eastbound out in the hot stinking desert!

BNSF’s westbound manifest freight that operates on the Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision is westbound on the approach to Tunnel 1 east of Plainview, Colorado, on April 5, 1999. Leading... (more)

With the Norfolk Southern's Wabash heritage locomotive fourth out in the head end power consist, a westbound BNSF grain train rolls across the desert landscape between Ludlow and Barstow on the Ne... (more)

A westbound Z train heads downgrade at the Trinidad Loop. BNSF 1101 was involved in a wreck in Arizona in October, 2000, and was nearly totaled. When BNSF repainted it in 2002, it was repainted in... (more)

A Salt Lake City, Utah to Cheyenne, Wyoming UP passenger special takes the scenic route home via the D&RGW mainline. The UP 963B was coughing up plenty of exhaust on its eastward journey through t... (more)