The hottest train on the BNSF system, the Willow Springs, IL to North Bay, CA Z9 rolls through the canyon with less than an hour of sunlight left on this hot September Saturday in the Arizona dese... (more)
With mountains stretching to the horizon, the region west of the Continental Divide would seem to be an impossible place for a railroad to traverse -- yet the Rio Grande found the Colorado River a... (more)
Ethanol empties follow a mixed bag of GE locomotives east out of Afton Canyon, following a 50-mph wind east.
A detoured empty grain train rolls down Afton Canyon
Following the twisting course of the Yakima River as it slices through the Umtanum Ridge anticline, an empty grain train is utterly dwarfed by the 1,500-foot-tall basalt cliffs of the Yakima River... (more)
UP SD70ACe 8600 along with a mix of other power leads an eastbound stack train through Afton Canyon on the former LA&SL line.
I'm guessing that this view has been radically altered by the recent double-tracking project currently on-going in Abo Canyon. Here still in full Santa Fe dress, 4 axle Dash 8 7416 leads a trio ... (more)
Don't sit under that apple tree with anyone else but me.
Union Pacific's lengthy KG1LA winds its way through Afton Canyon, as it heads west on the Cima Subdivision bound for Los Angeles.
Late on a summer afternoon, BNSF's daily Everett-Spokane manifest ascends the famous loop at Trinidad, just a few miles short of the completing the climb away from the Columbia River at Quincy.
In early morning light, an eastbound Union Pacific stack train follows the winding course of the Mojave River, as it rolls through Afton Canyon.
A westbound loaded coal train makes its way west through Afton Canyon on the former LA&SL.
ATSF F7A #37C leads a five-unit lashup into the steel plate truss bridge over Galisteo Creek and towards Lamy with the combined Super Chief/El Capitan in tow. US Highway 285, soon to be Interstate... (more)
6 Trona EMD's lug there train up grade out of the Searles Valley.
An eastbound out of Wenatchee climbs out of the Columbia River Valley..ahead lies the famed Trinidad Loop
