BNSF power with a Santa Fe leader makes a run south to Portland in a winter storm.

Southbound twice weekly BNSF Pikes Peak Local descending between Palmer Lake and Monument

A scene not to be repeated with Conrail and CPLs in Brunswick, Maryland.

A pair of ratty and faded, but still proud Santa Fe warbonnets wait for a track warrant onto the mainline to head back to Rock Island.

Racing around the corner at Biwabik, MN heading for Two Harbors with fresh made taconite pellets.

Gang Green The 102 yard crew pulls their all Burlington Northern consist complete with BN caboose onto track 11 as they head north out of the yard for a trip to Liberty Railcar services. ... (more)

The "Greenfield" - BNSF's westbound Pasadena Local passes through La Verne the day after heavy rains gave Southern California a much needed soaking thanks to "El Nino" with a pair of ex Santa Fe G... (more)

The engineer throttles up his 4 EMD's and accelerates 145 cars of taconite pellets continuing the trip that started at the ArcelorMittal Minorca mine and will end at the yard at Two Harbors.

One set of EMD power passes another on the roundhouse lead in Willmar. With the big GEs seemingly everywhere on the BNSF system now, the various local trains that fan out from Willmar make this a... (more)

In the last rays of light, WE 5413 and 5391 are pulling hard out of Brewster yard on their way to Spencer and points west. We had barley missed this train at Shorbs and decided to try and catch it... (more)

While it has been hanging around Michigan in various spots, including Battle Creek, Flint, and most recently, Lansing, GTW 5936, the last SD40-2 in Burdakin Blue was picked up today at Cory Yard b... (more)

On the Aggregate Industries spur just off of CSX's Popes Creek Subdivision in southern Maryland, a former Santa Fe GP30u idles away on the south end of a rock train. A CSX crew will take the empty... (more)

Happy New Years! Rapids Local thunders through fresh powder onto the the New Year! Hopefully the crew will be home before that though!

Here we see two of the BNSF's SD40-2 engines (1933 1675) running along the foothills of Boulder, Colorado, after assembling a train in the small yard adjacent to the Coors Brewing Company. A view... (more)

Train A64 roars through Cook Springs, Alabama with the last remaining SD40-2 still in Burlington Northern colors, definitely a great catch as it'll be black and white sooner rather than later.