Rolling under Interstate 15, the BNSF annual Christmas train for disadvantaged children climbs toward the Summit of Cajon Pass. Snow on the top Wrightwood add to an otherwise dry landscape.

Amtrak’s eastbound California Zephyr is dexiting 63-foot-long Tunnel 40 in scenic Little Gore Canyon west of Azure, Colorado, on June 3, 2013. Almost lost in the craggy scene on the far left, fi... (more)

Refection on Autumn
A westbound BNSF freight crosses the Clark Fork west of Noxon on a gorgeous Autumn afternoon in Montana on October 13, 2018.

Passing by the calm waters of the Clark Fork at a location we called “the cove,” a BNSF coal train heads westbound between Eddy and Thompson Falls, Montana, on the morning of September 18, 201... (more)

A Komatsu front-end loader is loaded on Montana Rail Link flatcar No. 100203 in the yard at Logan, Montana, on October 17, 2018. In the background, MRL GP35 Nos. 403 and 402 wait to go to work on ... (more)

BNSF 8005 east leads an eastbound z -train through Truxton canyon between Cherokee and Peach Springs, AZ.

Another BNSF stack train marches west past a surprisingly unvandalized abandoned teepee.

After finishing up switching at the cement plant at Townsend, Montana Rail Link’s Helena switch heads for home on the morning of October 17, 2018. At this late date, it is pretty rare to see a l... (more)

Thunderstorms are moving in on July 1, 2017, as an eastbound BNSF grain empty meets a westbound BNSF coal train tucked in the siding at Lombard, Montana, as the train negotiates curves running par... (more)

After nosing in onto the ARZC for a meet with a westbound Z, train QCHIPHX1-28 has reversed back onto the Phoenix sub and moving east again past the Matthie Wye.

Stopped into a one-horse town and saw just that. Welcome to the wild west!

A hot shot intermodal train races down Goffs Hill, through Arrowhead Jct, as it prepares to overtake a stack train at Ibis before reaching the crew's final destination of Needles, Calif.

In Livingston, Montana, on May 7, 2012, Montana Rail Link EMD SD9 No. 608 is in MRL’s Livingston Shops getting sheet metal work done by a machinist. Two tracks over in the background in the proc... (more)

Coming back to AZ I did spend a little time down south before going full in on the BSNF in the North. On one of my favorite trips we caught some interesting lighting on the west end of the Gila su... (more)

MRL 259 runs long hood first with a Jimbo work train headed east at Belknap after working the west end of the Montana Rail Link during the week. MRL 259 is former BN 6324, built in November 1971, ... (more)