An ES44C4 shoves hard on a long stack train with the San Francisco mountains soaking up the sun.

A westbound BNSF train throttles up heading out of town. They were running west on the east track due to another train hitting a van a ways back. First day of meteorological spring.

On a recent business trip to Vegas, had the pleasure of driving up to Flagstaff. They received a total of 8 inches of snow. I am no stranger to snow, but here is my first snow shot accepted by R... (more)

My first reaction was what is CSX doing out here? LOL Suffered for this shot, damn I hate cold and snow!!!

A train overtakes another on the busy BNSF route.

Stacks off the CSX in Chicago (North Baltimore, Ohio) bound for Los Angeles head west through downtown Flagstaff, as seen from the top of Mars Hill on March 9, 2015.

CREX 1309 leads train H-BARKCK east of Flagstaff.

A Willow Springs, Ill., to Los Angeles Z-Train rolls through downtown Flagstaff, passing the Amtrak station on March 9, 2015.

A long westbound baretable works upgrade towards Flagstaff.

A hot westbound with brand new power blasts by the Flagstaff Local.

CREX lease power leads this Barstow to Kansas City freight just east of Flagstaff. Recent snow fall made for some interesting photos around the area.

A westbound stack train battles up the Arizona Divide as it struggles to get back to track speed after being overtaken by a westbound Z-Train.

A hot Z9 intermodal train charges up the Arizona Divide as it runs on the opposite main to overtake a westbound train in front of it.

A westbound that struck a van at a crossing a ways back, forced other westbounds to track 2. Here an older GE leads a stack train as the heavy snow eases a bit in downtown Flagstaff.

Snow coming down so hard it's almost a white out, even the NWS did not expect this. Meanwhile, the BNSF carries on with another eastbound of about 14 trains in two hours.