Train 102 accelerates east out of Swan Landing along Brule Lake near the east entrance of Jasper National Park after meeting trains 103 and 117 at Swan Landing. The train was in a race against the... (more)

An eastbound BNSF coal train passes through Lombard, Montana, on the eve of September 11, 2011. Smoke from western wildfires enhances the colors of a pretty sunset over the Missouri River and Lomb... (more)

Once upon a time, in a magical trainforest far, far away...

Susquehanna sunset

A nice little New Years Eve gift from BNSF brings a CitiRail Lease ES44AC leading two other BNSF units on the Denver, CO to Great Falls, MT Manifest that is approaching the Trilby Road Crossing an... (more)

Q359 slowly makes its way through Fairhope on a very rainy, dreary, Saturday evening.

Both trains just got the signal at Vickers to head north and throttled up side by side charging under the new overpass being constructed to replace the Wales Rd crossing they're about to cross. O... (more)

Sun rays filter through the trees after a late afternoon rain shower. I pass by this crossing a hundred or more times a year, but this time was special and I just had to stop. After firing off a f... (more)

A eastbound coal load is racing a gust front from a line of thunderstorms on a warm summer evening west of Hebron,ND 8/10/07. The field of sunflowers in the foreground are in full bloom, and are f... (more)

An eastbound stack train waits for a higher-priority TOFC train to pass it under a vast illuminated sky in the Arizona desert.

A supercell rotates upon itself in a fury of lightning for hours on end as it makes it's way eastward throughout the night. It is amazing the such a power storm can be so tightly packaged that the... (more)

Lightning races across the sky as the sound of thunder fills the air. The rain is coming down in sheets as I get soaked to the bone. A westbound has just rolled into Altoona and the EOTD can still... (more)

UP 3597 heads up the Brigham City, Utah based, Malad Idaho, local. Scrap filled gondolas for Nucor Steel and hoppers for grain and pumice for Malad City's industries.