Flags and flares westbound past the signal

BNSF 8785 (SD70ACe) & 6187 (ES44AC) pass Castle Rock area with a loaden coal train. BNSF 6138 (ES44AC) & 8818 (SD70MAC) are working on the rear end.

A Fresh 7338 leads 38Q up the West Slope at Lilly, released just 3 days prior.

The "Spirit of the Union Pacific" leads a executive special along the Columbia River.

NS 202 makes an early morning appearance through Stanley, VA.

Ithaca Central Railroad switches the NS Sayre Yard by the former Lehigh Valley Railroad Passenger Station and prepares for their return trip to Ithaca, New York.

The evening sun starts to faded below the horizon, an empty grain train from El Paso, TX returns to the corn fields of Nebraska as it negotiates the curves near Trinidad, CO along BNSF's Twin Peak... (more)

UP 8632 (SD70ACe) greets an eight engine consist heading into the UP's North Yard.

EMDX Demonstrator 90 sits at EMD's LaGrange Plant.

On one of the nicest Easter Sundays in the Chicago area in decades, a UP SD70ACe-T4 sits at the EMD LaGrange facility.

On a muggy afternoon, the Pittsfield Boston Line local comes in to the Selkirk receiving yard with some interesting power. Not sure why the two new MACs came off of, possibly used for pusher powe... (more)

Late afternoon light shimmers off the fresh paint of an equally freshly rebuilt GP40X, now blue carded as a GP25X at BNSF's Commerce Diesel Service facility in Commerce, CA. Unit was originally AT... (more)

NS 825 slowly pulls westbound out of the yard in Roanoke at Control Point WB with an SD70ACe leading the way.

Bound for Galesburg, Illinois, BNSF's daily manifest from Memphis splits away from the Thayer South Subdivision and onto the River Subdivision at Turrell, Arkansas.

An Amtrak detour heads west through Geneva, picking up speed