Frosty Start- Early, bone chilling frost complements an empty Weston coal bucket, about to top Byron Hill. WPSX Weston trains were lost to a UP routing soon after this photo was taken, leaving thi... (more)

The crew begins to pull and gets under way after traffic on the main has cleared. These freshly made steaming taconite pellets will eventually make their way all the way to Mexico from their origi... (more)

On June 12th, 2008, floods hit Iowa hard. Here, a maintenance "train" descends into the bottoms of Burlington, Iowa, where the Mississippi River still sits over much of the Burlington riverside y... (more)

Old #3 storming out of a 25 slow order.

BNSF empty coal diverses from Orin Line to Black Thander/Jacobs Ranch mines for coal loading under the clear Autumn sky.

A long stack train has entered the East end of the Winslow yard for crew change. The setting sun has painted the train red and yellow. This was pretty much the way it looked at the time of the pho... (more)

Eastbound BNSF train, shot from the top of Crozier Canyon. The sun hadn't yet cleared the rocks that line the canyon, which made for some pretty dramatic shadows in the morning.

After a few hours of complete cloud cover and thunderstorms, the sun dropped down below the clouds, making for some serious storm light at MP 581 East of Donkey Creek, Wyoming.

As lightining fills the night sky, one of a continuous string of coal trains pass through one of many crossovers on the Powder River Joint line.

BNSF 5004, leads sister 4968, and Norfolk Southern GP38-2, 5241, westbound approaching CP Maumee, in Toledo, Oh., passing under the former site, of the old PRR bridge's, that took there tracks nor... (more)