A special headed for Cadiz runs around ATSF 100 East, with GP60 No. 100 on the point and making its maiden eastbound run. The special is headed to the Parker Branch to show interested officials th... (more)

Two Santa Fe engines take a manifest east through Colona

What started out as a plan to shoot coal trains on the famous Santa Fe Raton Pass Subdivision turned into an unplanned busy few days of following top priority intermodal and freight that was being... (more)

Two Santa Fe Dash 8-40BWs led by ATSF 559 bookend a pair of BN SD40-2s on a westbound intermodal train headed out of Abo Canyon on its way to Belen, NM. It's 2.5 years into BNSF, but you would not... (more)

F45 No. 5983 leads a Santa Fe 199 train across Muir Trestle late in the day, when the big hills southwest of the trestle are in dark shadow. In the consist are two recently delivered Dash 9s and a... (more)

On a beautiful spring afternoon, a hot Santa Fe 991 train roars through the reverse curves at Marcel.

Every bridge is better with a warbonnet on it, in this case it's over Kansas Highway 177 near Matfield Green on a summer afternoon.

After a heavy downpour, BNSF 799 is illuminated by the late afternoon sun as it backs onto an eastbound manifest. Note the sequentially numbered BN GP40Ms in the background.

Empty auto racks depart the BNSF yard in Klamath Falls, destined for the Port of Portland. This was shot off the back deck of the house where we were living at the time.

A A-B-B-A set of Super Fleets three GP60's and a B40-8W 129, 334, 341, 534. We got excited about this one to say the least. The moon is still hanging out overhead.

A westbound Santa Fe freight sits in the siding at Hinkley, California, to meet two eastbound trains on the afternoon of March 6, 1995. The train is led by Super Fleet GE C40-8W No. 863 still look... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern & Santa Fe train on the former Northern Pacific crosses over a trail that was at one time the former Spokane, Portland & Seattle. Directly adjacent to the trail in ... (more)

A southbound BNSF train exits Calimus siding on UP's Cascade Subdivision, heading for a crew change at Klamath Falls.

Fullerton Shoo-Fly

BNSF train S-LGBNYC5-01 threads its way through the shoo-fly west of the Fullerton, California, passenger station on April 1, 2000. The shoo-fly is due to constru... (more)

West coast railfans along BNSF got a treat in winter 2002, when a northbound RoadRailer was dispatched with an A-B-A set of warbonnet GP60s. At the time, we were living in the yellow house at uppe... (more)