The Hopi Buttes provide a backdrop as sunrise catches a westbound Z climbing the Arizona Divide while in the distance a eastbound rolls downgrade toward Winslow.

Sunrise on the Colorado Plateau greets a westbound Z as it climbs the Arizona Divide with a manifest on it's block on the BNSF Seligman Subdivision.

Full Moon Baretables. As the full moon rises in the east a westbound baretable train races west on the Seligman Subdivision after the sun which has just set a few minutes earlier.

A stack train glints as it snakes east through the desert at Ludlow, CA on the BNSF Needles Sub as the sun sets on a very windy and dusty day in April 2009.

At dusk BNSF ES44DC 7708 blasts upgrade at 60 mph across old US 66 at Williams, AZ.

At 22:53 the kids (boys ages 7, 7, and 5), still up as they are wired on an intoxicating blend of "Smores", the excitement of the campfire on a short weekend camping trip, and railroading, get an ... (more)

A BNSF stack train is briefly illuminated by a fleeting ray of sun as it dashes west through summer thunderstorms at Walapai, AZ east of Kingman on the Seligman Subdivision on July 15, 2006.