BNSF's version of the "Salad Shooter" is the Stockton, CA to Willow Springs, IL Z-train. With containers filled with frozen goods, what makes this train stand out over the rest of interm... (more)

Climbing out of Ludlow towards Ash Hill, five GE locomotives notch up as they hustle 73 UPS loads on a hot LA to Willow Srpings, IL Z6.

A powered up Willow Springs, IL to San Bernardino, CA Z-train has no issues doing track speed of 50 MPH up the 1.4% grade of Ash Hill near East Siberia.

A Willow Springs, IL to North Bay, CA Z-train begins to gain speed as it clears the permeant 55 MPH speed restriction at Valentine. For the next 30 miles, this hotshot UPS train will be doing all ... (more)

Monday, Nov. 20th, was the official start of "Peak Season". From now till Christmas Eve, supply chain companies will see their highest volume of packages of the year. To tackle this logi... (more)

Monday, Nov. 20th, was the official start of "Peak Season". From now till Christmas Eve, supply chain companies will see their highest volume of packages of the year. To tackle this logi... (more)

An EMD SD70MAC and a GE AC4400CW bring up the rear of a Smithers Lake, TX-bound coal train as it crest the 7,200' summit of the Palmer Divide as Palmer Lake, CO.

With a fresh crew on board, the DP motors of a "mega" empty coal train departs Sterling and heads north off of the Brush Subdivision onto the Angora Subdivision. These "mega" c... (more)

The pair of GE locomotives shove a 124 car Texas-bound coal train into the sunset as it passes through Brush, CO.

New signals are almost ready to be cut into service at Union on BNSF's Brush Sub. Since BNSF taking over the maintenance from the UP on the section from Union to Sterling, new signals are being pu... (more)

A southbound, railroad eastbound, UP coal train hustles 20,000 tons of West Thunder coal cross Wyoming's Powder River Basin near Douglas. On the main track next to the UP 5802, the DP motors of a ... (more)

A busy morning in Wyoming's Powder River Basin has resulted in a three-way meet at Bill. Two eastbound UP coal trains race towards Shawnee Jct, and onto home rails, as a westbound BNSF coal train ... (more)

Two BNSF coal trains battle the one percent grade of Logan Hill in Wyoming's Powder River Basin as they head south to deliver their loads of "black diamonds" to power plants across the M... (more)

BNSF 5944 leads a 130 car coal train for the Consumers Energy J.H. Campbell Generating Complex in West Olvie, MI as it leaves the Black Thunder Mine and enters BNSF's Orin Sub. From there, this BN... (more)

With 74 loaded cars of Utah crude oil pushing down on the drawbars, UP 8835 slowly negotiates the mountain grade and tight curves of Coal Creek Canyon with its heavy oil train. In the background, ... (more)