BNSF 3142 races back to Barstow after switching Thomson

3 BNSF ACes lead an empty ore train over the Colona interlocking

A good midday run of traffic at Maine, AZ is embellished with this westbound manifest charging across the Arizona Divide. Fuji Velvia.

In a land of contrasts, this eastbound has been visible for a while; seemingly in slow motion as it crosses the vast plains. As it nears its speed becomes evident then all of a sudden the 1102 wit... (more)

The 4564 East drops downgrade in dynamic braking past the Cosnino Road crossing between Flagstaff and Darling (Winona). Although patches of snow lay on the ground, in the warm Arizona sun it was a... (more)

BNSF 4520 West rolls past McCartys, NM with a former Santa Fe SD-75M and Burlington Northern SD-60M in the consist, during a period when such combinations were in abundance. Fuji Velvia.

BNSF 1038 and three mates make good time climbing Trinidad Loop out of the Columbia River Basin with an eastbound Z train. About 30 minutes out of Wenatchee, WA, the train is headed to Spokane and... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train blurs past a graveyard of semaphore signal masts lined up at Superior, Montana, after their removal from usefulness on October 6, 2005. One of o... (more)

Dressed in warbonnet red, Burlington Northern Santa Fe GE C44-9W No. 747 thunders westward with a freight past the milepost 192 semaphores east of St. Regis, Montana, on June 30, 2000.

With the sun rising on my sweet 16, BNSF 5047 gets the light and heads west towards Vancouver on a perfect spring morning.

BNSF 4126 leads the parade into Kingman. With five trains in this view, this section of the Seligman subdivision was hopping.

On a cold spring morning, BNSF #5613 (AC44CW) Leads an Oil Train, blowing a turbo as it approaches Naperville Metra Station. Fun Fact: 5613 is one of about 20 AC44s that BNSF owns

United Chloride - A string of tank cars sit at United Chloride on Bolo Hill at Saltus Road on the Needles Subdivision.

Tehachapi Pass is carpeted in the green of springtime on March 28, 2001, as a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight heads through Caliente, California. Behind warbonnet-clad Dash 9 No. 76... (more)

The local is throttled up as it begins the climb up Edelstein Hill, rolling through the "S" curve under those classic Santa Fe signal bridges.