A pair of EMD motors shove the rear of the an empty coal train between Beshoar and Barela as the crew trucks towards their final destination of Trinidad.

Crawling at a whopping 10 MPH, this heavy coal load is finally done doing the three hour battle up the northern slope of the Palmer Divide. Here, the engineer begins to watch his train crest the s... (more)

With a storm cell working in the background, the DP motors of an empty coal drag charge their way up the Palmer Divide as they roll through the city of Colorado Springs.

After a thunder storm rolled through Trinidad, the clouds broke free in time for the sun to shine on this empty coal train returning to the Powder River Basin. Here, a shuttle crew rounds the hors... (more)

With an afternoon thunder storm rolling through in the background, an empty coal drag works its way through the curves between Mayne and Walsenburg along the former BN Spanish Peak Sub.

After getting off work, I saw that an SD70ACe was leading a westbound Q into Barstow. I quickly ran to the hotel to get my camera and raced out towards Helendale to catch it. At the time, EMD moto... (more)

The hotshot Willow Springs, IL to Stockton, CA intermodal train slowly eases into the horseshoe curve Caliente, along Tehachapi Pass. In the background, a BNSF manifest holds at the end of the dou... (more)

The rumbling sound of thunder seems mute in comparison to sound of a loaded train blowing its horn for the four consecutive railroad crossings in Rocky Ford, CO. Here, Conductor Garvin, my roommat... (more)

UP 1995, the Chicago and North Western heritage unit, leads the Global 1, IL to Los Angeles, CA intermodal train into Rock River after tackling Sherman Hill.

An early May snow storm hits Palmer Lake as a coal drag eases over the summit and begins the downward ride towards Pueblo.

Struggling up the grade towards the 7,200' summit of the Palmer Divide, a 17,000 ton coal load works through the curves through "The Sag" as a stormy weather forms in the background.

An empty coal buckets races through the curves between Barela and Beshoar in southern Colorado on BNSF's Twin Peaks Subdivision. Here, this Amarillo is racing the clock against their hours of serv... (more)

A pair of AC motors pull an empty coal train back to the Powder River Basin as they roll across the plains of southern Colorado on the BNSF's Spanish Peaks Subdivision.

The evening sun starts to faded below the horizon, an empty grain train from El Paso, TX returns to the corn fields of Nebraska as it negotiates the curves near Trinidad, CO along BNSF's Twin Peak... (more)

The absolute last rays of sunlight glimmer off the nose of the BNSF 8580 as it pulls a load of PRB coal through the Colorado suburb of Hudson before crew changing in Denver.