After retrieving a covered hopper from the grain elevator at Harrison, Montana—the branch line’s only customer—Montana Rail Links’s 844 local heads back to Sappington descending on a 2.2 p... (more)
BNSF #8504, one of 20 (8500-8519) SD70ACe's with A-A-1--1-A-A truck configuration leads the Eastbound Provo to Denver trackage rights train.
A pair of SD70m's lead on this Westbound loaded Rail train at the West switch at Tunnel siding. The train is following a frozen Colorado River and is about to enter into Beaver Tail Tunnel.
In March 2003, BNSF 7872 reaches the summit of Tehachapi Pass with a rainbow of paint schemes in its consist.
A Cascade Dash 2 leads the twice weekly Pikes Peak Local into Castle Rock on the Colorado Joint Line, as the Front Range of the Rockies loom in the background.
A pair of ACes, including an eastern thoroughbred visitor, make their way through Castle Rock with a coal load.
BNSF 4978 (Dash944CW) leads an oil can train down Big Ten Curve as it heads to the BNSF yard in downtown Denver.
The cows pay no attention to the California Zephyr which is climbing through Big Ten Curve on its way to the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
In October 1999, SP SD45T-2 No. 9343 leads an eastbound UP rock train off the Willcox Playa at track speed, which at the time was 65 mph. This was during UP's doubling tracking of the Sunset Route... (more)
Climbing toward Tunnel 1 on Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision is a westbound BNSF freight crossing the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon just east of Plainview, Colorado, on January 4, 2019.
A southbound manifest heads down the Mykawa sub away from Houston in the first light of the day.
What appears to be a hot shot BNSF Z train, is actually a repo train from Phoenix, Arizona to Los Angeles, California. With no wye switch at Williams Junction, we saw this train earlier in the mor... (more)
Rumbling through Wyoming’s scenic Wind River Canyon is a northbound BNSF freight just north of Dornick siding on June 20, 2017.
A westbound BNSF stack train, with three Boeing fuselages up front, curves into Lombard, Montana, on July 5, 2018.
A BNSF intermodal slithers into the start of Wickenburg canyon, as the sun softly comes through a mostly cloudy sky near the end of the day.