The Thunder Rolls! A westbound BNSF manifest screams west thru Tunnel 29, as a rare quick moving morning thunderstorm moves on my position... The front of the train twists into a 10 degree... (more)

Late in the afternoon of June 1, 1995, a westbound Santa Fe intermodal crosses Bridge 873.8 east of Sais in New Mexico’s Abo Canyon. A trio of GEs in Super Fleet warbonnet dress power the trainâ... (more)

UP 8923 leads a manifest through Cienega Creek.

BNSF 8436 (SD70ACe) and three other mates shove a hopper train through Sedalia, Colorado.

As the sun rises on October 3, 2014, three Montana Rail Link EMD SD45s cross the bridge at Tuscor, Montana, with a westbound BNSF freight. In the silence of an autumn morning along the Clark Fork,... (more)

Northbound BNSF Denver to Laurel manifest freight curves along the Bighorn River in rugged Sheep Canyon north of Greybull, Wyoming, on the morning of June 22, 2017.

The hottest train on the entire BNSF system, the Willow Springs, IL to North Bay, CA Z9 (formally the 199), waste no time doing 70 MPH and kicking snow as it rockets through the control point of B... (more)

With the San Francisco Peaks looming the background, the morning light illuminates the nose of the BNSF 4247 as it pulls its LA to New York UPS train through Darling, AZ.

A Clovis, NM double stack train exist out of Peach Spring, and into Yampai Canyon, as it carries cargo for the docks of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Four GE motors run elephant style as they race through Yampai Canyon, between Truxton and Peach Spring, on their hot TOFC train; bound for San Bernardino, CA.

Slowly crawling up the grade towards the summit of Yampai Hill, a three motors on the point work hard to pull 8,000' long harbor train for Clovis, NM.

A quick dusting of snow has blanketed the Arizona Divide on a mid-February morning. Here at Darling, a high priority intermodal train blast out of the sag and head down grade to Winslow for a crew... (more)

BNSF 6201 (ES44AC) leads an empty coal train through the S curves north of Palmer Lake, Colorado

On April 9, 2016, an eastbound Union Pacific loaded oil train pops out of Tunnel 1 into a small pocket of sunshine (literally) on a gorgeous spring afternoon in Coal Creek Canyon.

The day is almost over as the Provo-Lincoln manifest races through the small town of Roggen, Colorado on March 30, 2018. This is the second of four eastbounds that the westbound coal load in the b... (more)