Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief rumbles out of Crozier Canyon as the moon lights up the cloudy sky on a July night.

Amtrak's Southwest Chief normally passes over the Seligman Subdivision during the night. On this day, mechanical issues resulted in a five hour delay in Needles, Calif. The trailing unit had an au... (more)

With the shadows becoming longer and longer as they sun sets, westbound Memphis, TN to Thenard (Port of Los Angeles) CA stack train rumbles down the Crookton line change into Seligman.

The Guadalupe Hauler rumbles through Santa Susana on its way north on a beautiful summer evening in South California.

Amtrak train #777 comes into Simi Valley for a station stop. Unfortunately, this train would later hit a pedestrian north of the station.

An eastbound Z train races out of Kingman, Ariz. as it battles up the grade of Yampai Hill during the last moments of sunlight.

With the rain starting to fall again, Grand Canyon Railway's 2-8-2 steam locomotive #4960 chugging through Quivero after picking up the cowboys for the ride back.

Snow still counties to fall lightly during a late February storm in the college town of Flagstaff Ariz. BNSF 5101 begins to roll east again after stopping to pick up a dispatcher at the Flagstaff... (more)

Three BNSF General Electric locomotives battle up the 1.5 percent grade of Yampai Hill with intermodal containers from Memphis, TN to Los Angeles, CA in tow. You can hear the engines struggling up... (more)

BNSF's LNG locomotives are testing again round the Seligman Subdivision as they race through Griffith, Ariz. on a warm summer afternoon.

After holding the siding to let an empty coal sneak on by, the Pueblo, CO to Laurel, MT manifest battles gravity as it tries to get out of the siding. This train would be the last train to sneak t... (more)

The early morning rays of sun warm the head end of Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief as it races through Holbrook on a warm summer morning in eastern Arizona.

On a pleasant April afternoon, I got the motivation to "battle" the road to the Canyon Diablo bridge between Flagstaff and Winslow. One of the first trains I caught was the Richmond, CA to Allianc... (more)

One of BNSF's executive units hustles a westbound junk train down the western slope of the Arizona Divide days before a late winter storm would hit.

A solid lash up of "green goats" makes it feel like it's 1999 when BNSF was coming out with their new H1 paint scheme. Well, it isn't 1999 and times have changed. In 2015, these H1 painted locomot... (more)