A loaded Westbound Grainer rolls through Cooks Siding on the Fallbridge Sub.

A Galesburg, IL, to Northtown Yard in Minneapolis, MN, freight train rolls along the humid and foggy Mississippi River this mid-morning. The train has just passed Lock and Dam #9 couple miles sout... (more)

Southeast of Wenatchee, Washington is the Great Northern's crossing of the Columbia River. Completed in 1893, it required upgrades to be able to handle larger and heavier locomotives by 1925. The ... (more)

With Oregon's Mount Hood dominating the background (over 45 miles to the west) a BNSF loaded grain train snakes its way though the Columbia River Gorge near Maryhill, Washington.

South bound mixed freight creepin through the canyon. All trains are on a slow order due to the two fires that recently burnt most of the Lower Deschutes.

BNSF’s Denver to Laurel manifest freight enters Hime Canyon at Himes, Wyoming, on the morning of June 27, 2018. The train is negotiating what is reportedly the sharpest curve on a BNSF main line... (more)

In the mid morning sunlight, BNSF 8005 leads a southbound oil train along the Bellingham Bay in Bellingham, WA on July 6th, 2018.

Up, up and away. BNSF 7073 (ES44DC) leads a freight on the steep climb up to Tunnel #1 as it begins the journey through the Colorado Rocky Mountains. You can really appreciate the amount of grad... (more)

Storm clouds are starting to gather over the Tehachapi Mountains as another lumber drag climbs south. The Tehachapi Mountains can sometimes be a very soggy place in March, bring out spectacular gr... (more)

Long shadows and crisp afternoon light greet a fast moving downhill intermodal.

An eastbound manifest enters the scenic Himes Canyon along the Bighorn River. The Bighorn River cuts thru some undulating topography between Kane and Greybull, WY, making for some of the most sce... (more)

A westbound Cowley turn rounds what is supposedly the tightest curve on a BNSF mainline. The gorgeous landscape paints the entrance to the rugged Himes Canyon along the Bighorn River.

In the early days of the BNSF Railway, a Santa Fe B40-8W leads a westbound stack train at Park Moabi, CA, not far from the Arizona-California border. This is a very desolate but starkly beautiful ... (more)

BNSF’s Denver to Laurel freight passes Dornick siding beneath the rugged, towering cliffs of Wyoming’s Wind River Canyon on June 24, 2018.

I have never gone out of my way for a Gevo, but something other than the daily Southwest Chief over Raton Pass changed that. BNSF 7859 is seen leading a test train out of Trinidad as they knock do... (more)