Back in Action: After spending the last few months in the shops awaiting repainting, NS 1069, the Virginian, finally sees the light of day for the first time in 3 months, as it is brought out of... (more)

A manifest and a local are tied down in the small yard in Flatonia, while in the distance, a westbound rolls toward San Antonio, with DPUs bringing up the markers.

Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACe Nos. 4404 and 4318 power a Helena to Bozeman turn eastbound down Winston Hill approaching Townsend, Montana, on the afternoon of July 7, 2023. During the bridge rebui... (more)

Shiny paint and aluminum hoppers nicely reflect the early morning sun as BNSF EMD SD70ACe Nos. 9098 and 8557 lead a coal train over Logan Hill north of Bill, Wyoming, just after sunrise at 6:04 a.... (more)

BNSF 9386 (SD70ACe) heads towards the engine servicing facility for fuel and sand.

The sights and sounds of a summer thunderstorm have been silenced by the powerful roar of EMD and GE prime movers as they grind away on wet steel rail. Over 17,000 tons of North Antelope Mine coal... (more)

Mid America Energy (Council Bluffs, IA) empties head west across the Sand Hill Subs towards Alliance and onward to the coal fields of the Powder River Basin.

BNSF 9045 (SD70ACe) shoves a loaded coal train through the elevated curve of the Keenesburg Cut on the Brush Sub.

With the collapse of Montana Rail Link’s Yellowstone River Bridge near Reed Point under the weight of MLAUMIS on June 24, 2023, and the subsequent severing of a busy main line, MRL and BNSF had ... (more)

BNSF 8415 (SD70ACe) leads a freight through Pinecliffe, Colorado as it heads down the mountain on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

The SP heritage unit leads the Houston to North Council Bluffs manifest up to the diamond at Oreapolis to wait for the passage of a BNSF hopper train.

IT far from home
BNSF EMD SD70ACe No. 9122 leads a northbound BNSF coal train over the hill at Logan, Wyoming, on the afternoon of July 10, 2023. Far from home is trailing Norfolk Southe... (more)

The Rio Grande Heritage Unit sits on the Kansas Ave Overpass as it's pushing a UP empty coal train that just got back from the CPKC.

The setting Nebraska sun illuminates the side of a Antelope Mine, WY coal train that is bound for MidAmerican Energy (Lousia) Ottumwa, IA. With over 19,000 tons on the drawbar, six AC traction mo... (more)

An Omaha Public Power (Arbor, NE) empty coal train heads westward towards the Buckskin Mine as it traverse the Sand Hill Sub at Ashby.