The last rays of sunlight reflect off of the nose of a BNSF 9725, a rebuilt SD70MAC, as it pulls an empty Comanche (XCEL Energy Colorado) coal train back towards the mines in Wyoming's Powder Rive... (more)

A 17,600 ton coal train from Eagle Butte Mine, WY to NRG (Headwaters Power Plant) Donnie, TX slowly crawls up the 1.4% grade of Spruce before reaching the summit of the Palmer Divide.

A coal load for Donnie, TX inches closer to the summit of the Palmer Divide on Colorado's Joint Line. Crawling at around 10 MPH, this 17,000 ton train loses a mile per hour, or two, due to a pesky... (more)

124 car loads of Rawhide Mine, WY coal are bound for Halsted, TX as they slowly traverse the Palmer Divide near Larkspur, CO. Four, six-axle locomotives battle the one to 1.4% grade of the norther... (more)

CP 8059 comes to a stop with its 14,000 ton grain train from Sweet Grass, MT as it hold the main track at Irondale after catching the line of trains waiting to get through Denver.

Rolling across the hogbacks of Tonville, CO, a Sweet Grass, MT to Fresno, CA grain train eases off the throttle to slow down and come to a stop at the west end of Tonville siding. This is due to m... (more)

CP 8059, and a UP SD70M, lead Sweet Grass, MT to Fresno, CA grain train across the farmlands of eastern Colorado along BNSF's Brush Sub at Keenesburg.

A GE AC4400CW and an EMD SD70MAC pull a 124 car loads of coal for Southwestern Public Service (Amarillo,TX) over the hill of Keenesburg along BNSF's Brush Sub.

A rare daylight appearance of the Ladora Turn starts to makes its way back to 31st Yard after servicing its primary customer of Suncor Energy in Commerce City.

Pulling hard up one percent grade of Slaughterhouse Canyon, five GE locomotives (3x2) battle icy rails to get this Stockton, CA to Chicago, IL Q-train through Kingman, AZ. and eastward over the su... (more)

The "O"-91 Kingman Local rounds the curve of a snowy Kingman Canyon as it heads east, back to its home yard, after servicing the McConnico Steel Plant.

A Norfolk Southern ES44AC leads a short two-car Kingman Local through Kingman Canyon as it heads to McConnico Steel Plant. Kingman received seven inches of snow the night before; blanketing the wh... (more)

One of BNSF's 15,000' trains is lead by a pair of NS motors as they head west out of snowy Crozier Canyon.

Fresh snow is being kicked up by Kingman Local as it heads back to Kingman after working the Nelson Mine.

The hot Z-WSPSBD4 races westward towards Hackberry after a late February snow storm.