A BNSF oil train cruise north through Alma, WI on its way to the Twin Cities. The location is at the Alma lock and dam on the Mississippi River on Burlington's former mainline.

A BNSF stack train rolls south across the Wisconsin River viewed from Wyalusing State Park. This location is the confluence of the Wisconsin and Mississippi Rivers.

The eastbound Canadian makes a station stop at Revelstoke, BC on a day that feels more like fall than August.

CP C424 no. 4203 and a mate soak up the setting sun at Thunder Bay, ON in August 1976. MLW units were quite plentiful here at the time, including switch engines and M630s.

Amtrak's Pacific International crosses the ship canal in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle as it nears the end of its journey from Vancouver, BC to Seattle's King St. Station. This train feature... (more)

UP 2767 departs Hoffman Ave. Yard and heads north along Dayton Bluff as it begins its trip via BNSF trackage rights to Itasca (Superior), WI. This trackage is shared by BNSF, CP, UP and Amtrak.

A UP local east leaves Altoona with sand cars for a plant at Augusta, WI. The lack of snow at year end did not foretell the nearly 5 feet that would blanket the area in February 2019.

MRL rebuilt SD40s 251 and 265 roll east with a freight in the Yellowstone valley east of Columbus, MT. The train is headed for Laurel yard and will meet a westbound coal train between Columbus and... (more)

An eastbound UP freight between South St. Paul and Altoona piled up approximately 30 cars at the bottom of Knapp hill around 4 pm, Sunday, January 12. they took out the 190th St. crossing, a block... (more)

Merriam depot was located at a diamond and junction between the former Minneapolis & St. Louis and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha, both of which were absorbed into CNW by 1960. In spring 1... (more)

Santa Fe power mixed with an LMX leaser exits Abo Canyon with a westbound train headed for Belen, NM. A couple years into BNSF, it was nice to still be able to see "pure" Santa Fe locos,... (more)

BNSF 990 leads a colorful mix of power on an eastbound stack train through Leavenworth, WA, about 30 minutes west of a crew change at Wenatchee after climbing over Stevens Pass.

Light fog lifts off the Clark Fork as a BNSF coal train heads west at Tuscor, MT on Montana Rail Link. The train is headed for Roberts Bank, BC.

A Montana Rail Link freight rolls east near Columbus, MT led by a pair of their rebuilt SD40s, a treat considering most trains run with BNSF power.

A CP grain train with an interesting array of power strolls past a farm a few miles south of La Crescent, MN as it heads south on CP's former MILW line along the Mississippi River to Kansas City. ... (more)