It's a chilly February morning in Avery, Iowa as a BNSF ES44AC and SD70ACe lead eastbound coal loads past frozen farm fields. This is one of the sections of split main on the Ottumwa Subdivision, ... (more)

Coal from the Rawhide Mine in Wyoming's Powder River Basin battles the steep grade of Palmer Lake as this 17,000 ton train approaches "the sag" at Spruce, CO.

Fresh snow covers blankets the town of Palmer Lake as a southbound BNSF loaded coal train begins its descend down the southern slope of the Palmer Divide along Colorado's Joint Line.

A colorful mix of power is on the point of a westbound manifest however five of the units are offline.

An empty grain train led by BNSF SD60M 9278 sits in the siding at Warner while the Galesburg-Barstow local pulls alongside on the mainline with BNSF SD9 6143 leading. Both trains waited here for ... (more)

Eastbound BNSF coal drag glides through Riverside on a beautiful spring morning.

Part of the morning Eastbound lineup on the NS Main through Bryan, Ohio.

A railfan in a white Chevy pulls in to New Richmond Park just in time to get a front row seat for E949 heading west with a cut of empties. A frozen riverbank provided me a vantage point that woul... (more)

BNSF's 823 local is headed for Barstow, IL where it will drop its train which consists of cars for the Quad City area. Once the crew picks up their outbound cars, they will return to Galesburg, I... (more)

An updated SD9 leads two mean-green high-nosed SD9s (6123, 6120) along with SW1000 3618.

BNSF transfer 178 slows at it approaches Belz Blvd. to pick up a crew member.