The San Francisco Peaks tower over the scene as a westbound BNSF train snakes through the Northern AZ terrain between Maine and Chalendar.

BNSF No. 3915 splits the Searchlight Signals just before the little town of Parshall in the Colorado high country.

A Kansas City to Great Falls manifest holds the main between Seward and Tamora, Nebraska. This train features NS 1066 in the fourth spot and two Boeing 737 fuselages up front.

It's getting so that the disappearing unique signal systems hold as much interest as other objects of particular photos. The searchlights and cantilever certainly spoke "Santa Fe". That ... (more)

In the high country of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, BNSF No..3915 with a Mixed Manifest follows the Colorado River westbound.

A train heard by everyone around town, (with 2 EMD’s and a BCOL C40-8M) makes its way through the last scenic section before entering the cityscape. Looking down, the train rumbles through Wicke... (more)

Flood waters have consumed the low lying Arkansas side of the Mississippi River as BNSF 5402 & 8974 cross over on the Frisco Bridge in the center of this trio of bridges leading into Memphis. On t... (more)

BNSF 7037 South threads the needle South of a tunnel at Celilo, OR, as it climbs away from the Columbia River.

BNSF # 7680 along with two additional units rounded Arnolds Loop a few minutes ago and is now on the last lap to the summit of Silver Zone Pass. This is one of the “trackage rights” trains tha... (more)

All green—almost
A quartet of Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2s and a GE B30-7A booster power westbound unit grain train G05 just east of Summit on Montana’s Marias Pass. An almost al... (more)

Rotary 972552 clears snow dragged down from cut south of Stanton on ZAP Line.

In February 2019, Northern Arizona was hammered by records amount of snowfall across the region. Kingman Canyon (3,500' elevation) saw over a foot of snow in a 24 hour period. Higher elevations, s... (more)

4 units lead a westbound Slaton, TX to Barstow manifest through Kingman Canyon on the morning of Feb 22nd.

This is the year for snow in the So. Cal mountains. A BNSF mixed Manifest slides down the snow covered slopes towards tunnel 10 on the western slopes of the Tehachapi Mountains.

A full moon has crested above a threatening thunderhead in the final 30 seconds of sunlight over the Mojave high desert. The cell is a part of a large winter storm system that brought snow to plac... (more)