I remember eating dinner with a friend of mine, who's an engineer for the BNSF out Lincoln, NE, who told me "there's nothing like controlling a 16,000 ton coal train and watching an amazing s... (more)

The Route 66 overpass at Crookton has been a popular spot to park and watch trains start the climb up the Arizona Divide. Over the years, railfans have place memorable items along the guard rail o... (more)

Traffic begins to backup along the western leg of BNSF Seligman Subdivision as track work ties up the eastbound main track from Valentine (MP 485) to Walapai (MP 499). As result, tracks work signa... (more)

After having a signal drop from clear to red, this heavy Chicago-bound stack train slowly moves through Nelson Canyon as it tries to get back up to track speed. Here, the two DPU locomotives work ... (more)

The two DPUs on an eastbound Los Angeles Harbor (Pier 400), CA to Logistic Park Chicago, IL stack train slowly works up the grade into Crozier Canyon on a warm, August, evening. Thrown into the mi... (more)

The sun has set on the second day of August along the former Santa Fe Transcon in northwestern Arizona. Not soon after, the sounds of GE motors working up the grade out of Kingman begin to be loud... (more)

Recently, BNSF Railway has brought back many of their older locomotives out of storage to help with high volume of grain trains expected this fall in the Midwest. As a result, some of these stored... (more)

The rear helper units on a heavy Port of Los Angeles stack train slowly grind up the steep 1.4 % grade towards Yampai Summit as they enter Crozier Canyon. The sound of General Electric Evolution S... (more)

Making its way west through the scenic Rainbow Canyon, UP 8788 hauls a heavy Global 1, IL to Los Angeles, CA intermodal train near Caliente, NV. After a morning of a rain and snow, blue skies came... (more)

Nevada Northern's 2-8-0 steam locomotive #90 hustles west out of Ely with a work train; which includes Nevada Northern's steam wrecking crane. This was taken during the annual Nevada Northern wint... (more)

The sound of Nevada Northern's 4-6-0 steam locomotive #40 charging up the grade echos through out the valley on a cold February evening. With freight and passenger cars in tow, NN 40 shows her mus... (more)

After some brief monsoonal rains, a rainbow appears over the Truxton area as a Stockton, CA to Chicago, IL stack train works up the grade towards Yampai Hill. From there, the crew will work up ano... (more)

The sounds of dynamic breaks echo through the Feather River Canyon as a Pasco, WA to Bakersfield, CA high priority manifest emerges out of the first tunnel at Honeymoon.

The Federal Railroad Administration had their two geometry cars running over the Seligman Subdivision today. They were picked up this morning in Williams from the Grand Canyon Railway; who had the... (more)

Running about two and half hours late, Amtrak's Southwest Chief, eastbound service to Chicago, emerges from the long shadows near Maine, AZ on the third day of October. A BNSF Dash-9 was added to ... (more)