With large storm clouds build up over the low desert, UP 2723 leads a westbound manifest down Beaumont Hill, with EMDX 7241 3rd back.

The first train to be called out of Ash Fork in nearly 20 years in the Willow Springs, IL to Phoenix, AZ Z-train. Prior to this date, crews would operate from Phoenix to Winslow; nearly 300 mile r... (more)

BNSF's Southbound HSTOBAR rounds the horseshoe curve at Caliente in the late afternoon.

BNSF 6060 muscles a freight through a cut on the west side of the town of Keenesburg, Colorado.

A Hinkle to Pocatello manifest mounts the grade up the side of Telocaset Hill out of Union, Oregon.

A westbound freight behind four GE horses negotiates the crossover at Belvidere, NE on a warm August afternoon.

Dawn's first light catches BNSF 9265 (SD70ACe) waiting on a siding in Roggen, Colorado for a westbound freight to pass.

Four BNSF motors run elephant style past Barr Lake in Brighton, Colorado.

On a below freezing morning in Arizona's high country, BNSF 6998 West leads the hot Willow Springs, IL to Phoenix, AZ Z-train into Ash Fork. As of a day before this photo was taken, BNSF turned As... (more)

A westbound BELBAR charges out of Seligman with a set of elephant style GEs for power.

A Chicago, IL to San Bernardino, CA intermodal train descends down the Crookton Cutoff as it nears the half way point of the crew's 295 mile run across northern Arizona.

An Alliance bound Z train storms upgrade at Summit with a tattered Dash 9 leader.

BNSF 5183 West seen snaking down a steeper main 3 stretch of mountain grade along BNSF's Cajon Sub below Silverwood, after a fresh multi-inch blanket of snowfall the previous day.

Eastbound Military train has entered home rails on to the Gateway sub, and now is climbing up grade over the tall steel trestle near the Famous Keddie wye In the beautiful Feather River Canyon.

A westbound intermodal train begins the descent toward Los Angeles at Summit.