The Barstow to Tulsa priority manifest has a colorful, all EMD, all standard cab consist as it stops at Ash Hill, California on BNSF's Needles Subdivision to allow the Z-LACNYC9 to pass. BNSF SD4... (more)

Bell ringing and whistle blowing, Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 approaches the Rosecrans Ave. grade crossing about 25 minutes into its trip to the Grand Canyon. Behind the big 1927 built Baldwin are Amtrak... (more)

SD75I 8297 leads SD75Ms 8221 and 8204 on an empty coal train headed for Black Thunder Mine. This train has traveled the Northern coal route from Minnesota; west across North Dakota to Glendive, M... (more)

SD70ACe 9381 and AC4400CW 5613 sit at the grade crossing at the entrance to West Decker Mine, waiting a loading slot at Spring Creek Mine. The orange traffic pylon tells crews where to stop.

The Bozeman helper, SD70ACes 4314, 4315, and 4312, heads out of Livingston, west over Bozeman Pass

On a typical sunny Southern California Christmas Day, UP’s local power has the day off and sits behind the yard office. The power includes recently arrived GP15-1 Y559 (originally MP 1559), GG2... (more)

Not long after sunrise, the 73rd load from North Antelope Mine to Detroit Edison’s Midwest Energy Terminal at Superior, Wisconsin, climbs Walker Hill behind ES44AC 5956 and SD70MAC 8871. Even w... (more)

Traveling just over 100 miles, the North Antelope Mine to PacifiCorp Energy’s Dave Johnson Power Station at Clayton, Wyoming, has the shortest trip of the numerous coal trains loading in the Pow... (more)

Shortly before the weather turned to clouds and showers, a coal load from Rawhide Mine to Kansas City grinds uphill behind SD70MACs 9799 and 9564. Shoving on the rear are the DPU, ES44AC 5778, an... (more)

Around Alliance, Nebraska on the BNSF, it is a coal train that you find at the end of a rainbow. SD70MAC 8821 and SD70ACe 9377 lead an empty, one of ten parked between Alliance and Northport wait... (more)

With a solid set of Norfolk Southern power, Dash 9-40CWs 9283 and 9323, and SD70 2514, the Clovis, New Mexico to Richmond, California guaranteed service intermodal train, rounds the big curve clim... (more)

Some of the most unique BNSF Powder River Basin coal trains are those to Basin Electric Cooperative’s Laramie River Station at Moba, Wyoming. They have one of the shortest runs of any Powder Ri... (more)

Spring and Summer mean track work and track work often requires ballast. Although carrying the symbol of unit ballast train from Cheyenne to Newcastle Wy, SD60M 8107 and SD60 EMDX 9020 have been... (more)

SD70MAC 9882 and SD70ACe 9380 head south, timetable east, on the Orin Subdivision going to Caballo Rojo Mine with an empty from Kansas City Power and Light’s Iatan Plant at Sadler, Mo.

Winding its way through multiple S-curves, the 63rd load from Black Thunder Mine to Alabama Power’s James H. Miller, Jr. Electric Generating Plant at Palos, Al, drops down White Tail Hill at th... (more)