SD70M heads through the S turn at the west end of Shawmut. It will soon head west toward town of Gila Bend and the setting Sun. This area is now part of the Sonoran Desert National Monument and wi... (more)

Heading into the setting sun and into Flagstaff. Dash-9 4748 will soon be in downtown Flagstaff. Traffic on the Transcon was very heavy this day. I never went more than 30 minutes between trains.

Dash-9 4156 leads a pair of SD-40-2, NREX 247 and Wisconsin Central 6003. Dash-9 5332 is the trailing locomotive, they are west bound a few miles East of Flagstaff, Arizona. Smoke from a grass fir... (more)

Dash 9 4515 approaches Flagstaff from the east side of town with a large grass fire burning 5 miles in the background.

ES44DC 7712 leaves the east end of the Winslow yards on a crisp cool morning. It's mainly all downhill from here to the mid west. The San Francisco peaks are in the background with some late sprin... (more)

5833 works its way up the north side of Logan Hill. It's a windy day and dust is everywhere. The powerful slow speed grinning of the big AC's brought home why AC's are used on coal drags. This tra... (more)

This B&N SD70MAC works it's way up the north side of Logan Hill with the Antelope Mine in the background. The construction of a fourth mainline is well underway. There are lots of dirt trucks and ... (more)

C45ACCTE is Rising out of Benson, Arizona. The train has rounded the curve at the top of the hill as it comes out of Benson and the San Pedro Valley headed east to the town of Dragoon. This area i... (more)

BNSF Dash 9 leads a real assortment of BNSF power. The mix starts with GP60M in warbonnet colors, GP60M in a BNSF heritage colors, a SD-40 in Santa Fe colors, a GP60B in BNSF colors and finally a ... (more)

BNSF GEVO ES44DC 7711 leads Ferromex 4624, a GEVO ES44AC, a Warbonnet Dash9 and a BNSF Dash 9 into the East end of the Winslow Yard for crew change. The Ferromex unit is very new with hardly a scr... (more)

This is the C&O Allegheny type at the B&O Railroad Museum. The sophistication of this locomotive is seen in the design of so many details. The high pressure steam pipes are a most usual configurat... (more)

Locomotive 93 is pulling the train off the dock and will come to a halt and wait for clearance to enter the mainline. The dock and cruise ship is a short distance in back of the train. The dock is... (more)

MLW DL535E White Pass #104 is going to lead a passenger train up the pass. This route use to go as far as Whitehorse in the Yukon, Canada. Now it mainly runs to the top of White Pass and a very ... (more)

Dash 9 4942 leads an eastbound train at Bellmont, Arizona. The location is two miles from the Arizona divide. From the divide it is mostly down hill all the way to Chicago. Power will be taken off... (more)

Dash 9 4888 is set out at West Double A on the BNSF Transcon. The location is in the middle of nowhere. There are no regular road crossing for 25 miles to the east and maybe 100 miles to the west.... (more)