The last North Bay to Willow Spring, IL Z train of 2011 makes its way across the Arizona Divide on the first day of the new year as it charges through Angell.

Four pumpkins head west, elephant style, on a Chicago, IL to San Bernardino, CA high priority intermodal train as it rolls through East Flagstaff.

Two Dash 9's charge out of Amboy as the sun sets with their string of empty double stack cars on the Needles Sub.

The lone SD90 is the DP for this West Colton, CA to North Platte, NE manifest as the sound of an EMD motor in notch eight breaks the silence at Blue Cut.

With four on the head end and two bring up the rear, this heavy loaded coal train, bound for Long Beach, CA, starts to gain speed after stopping at Dagget before getting the green light to merge o... (more)

A high priority Z intermodal train bound for the NS railroad makes its way down the Arizona Divide as it passes Darling with a baretable train passing on track one.

Two mighty GE's lead an empty double train down the Arizona Divide into Winslow for a new crew to take this low priority train east over the Gallup Sub.

Containers from the Port of Los Angeles traveled through the night from the LA Basin, up Cajon Pass and across the eastern Mojave Desert to wake up to the Arizona sun as two BNSF GE's help push th... (more)

Four GE pumpkins give it all they got on this land barge bound for Hobart Yard in Los Angeles as they head up the grade of Ash Hill in the eastern Mojave Desert.

One of the few earthworms races across the eastern Mojave Desert (more like Mars) as a rare ES44AC visits the west coast and a Ferromex ACe trails behind. In the background, the two DPU's c... (more)

Four pumpkins lead a Houston to Los Angeles stack train around the curve at Kingman as it breaks free for a second out of the shadows of the canyon walls made from the early morning sunlight.

For those who do not know, I live around the Port of Los Angeles area. A lot of the trains out of the LA area come from the harbor bound for Chicago and other stations. I trave... (more)

Back in the day, the 199 would race down the ATSF tracks with shinny red and sliver GP's and Dash 8's. Now, the former 199 is the hottest train on the whole BNSF system. The Willow Springs, IL to ... (more)

Four Dash 9-44CW lead this heavy high priority manifest to the summit of the Arizona Divide as it passes by an old water tower at Bellemont.

Three pumpkins lead this Clovis, NM to Long Beach, CA stack train out of the dark shadows of the cliffs of Kingman Canyon and around the curves into the sunlight as it heads west to Needles.