Brilliant in the late afternoon sun, a trio of Dash9s and an SD75M power a westbound up the grade towards the Continental Divide.

A BNSF coal train exercising it's trackage rights on the Union Pacific. The trackage rights are due to the UP. SP merger. BNSF 5911 is heading westbound on the Shafter subdivision, ex Western Paci... (more)

Struggling up the long grade from the Rio Grande valley at Belen to Mountainair, BNSF 505 East leads another one of the diverse power consists that proliferated at the time, including an F45. Fuji... (more)

Early morning finds the 4826 East sailing across the plains and blowing past the old division point of Vaughn, NM. The subdivision was largely single track with passing sidings yet and you better ... (more)

You never knew what you were going to get for a power consist in the years following the big mergers of the 90s. UP or C&NW leaders were the norm for UP trains between Ogden, Topeka and Chicago ac... (more)

BNSF 1507 Sits Lifeless By Some Flowers At Brownsville.

Resplendent in the morning sunshine, BNSF 4750 slips beneath the cantilever at Summit - the east end of two main tracks on Marias Pass - after the Essex helpers had cut off. Fuji Astia.

Sort of a typical view of an early post mega-merger power lineup and scene of the railroad crossing immense Lake Pend Oreille. A fairly new Heritage 1 Dash9 leads predecessor roads' power as well ... (more)

North bound manifest with a nice mix of power.

Today I was able to catch a BNSF coal train on the Shafter Subdivision. A BNSF coal train on this trackage was a first for me. My assumption is that it must be some kind of export coal train for t... (more)

Some Seligman Sub action on a crazy hot Friday afternoon.

Out of a Montana afternoon comes the 1094 West leading Oakway SD60s and BN C30-7s as they urge a coal train into the grade toward Marias Pass. A pair of Essex helpers are on the rear. Fuji Astia.

A lite power set crosses the UP in Fremont, NE. The BNSF merger had already defiled the warbonnet scheme, as the SD75Ms had their super fleet 200 series numbers bounced to the 8200s with a gaudy p... (more)

BNSF 3896 South Rolls Over Bridge 127.6 At Golden Hour.

BNSF 7958 leads a tank train up the west side of Bozeman Pass.