Shortly before sunset, a hot westbound intermodal - the dispatcher called it a "silver Z" - has just crossed into Arizona. The next crew change point, Winslow, is a little over 100 mile... (more)
In a few minutes this westbound coal train will cross from New Mexico into Arizona. Power is three units on the head end and four DPUs.
As the sun continues to rise on Halloween morning, BNSF 4461 leads the V SBDCSX4 30A past the rear DPU of the S OMASCO3 27A at West Darling.
A Dash 9 and two Warbonnets pull a freight past the ponds at the Valmont Power Station in Boulder.
An eastbound domestic intermodal is about to duck under the old route 66 highway overpass at Correo, just after meeting a westbound counterpart. Mount Taylor and the red cliffs at Marmon can be se... (more)
The day is almost over in western New Mexico as this westbound stack train works upgrade from Bacca toward the setting sun. Thoreau and the continental divide are a few miles ahead.
Engineer Mel Baughman mugs for the camera from the cab of Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 No. 5349 at East Carbon, Utah, on February 5, 2004. Around Helper, these sullied, weary, black locomotives parked o... (more)
It was a real treat to catch two Santa Fe cowl unit as the sole power of a train. SDP40Fu 5261 and F45 5956 round a big sweeping curve east of East Guam, New Mexico.
NS 9579 waits in the hole in Valentine to swap crew with an eastbound Z train before making a run up the hill. Originally, the train had the BNSF 5610 leading until that unit experience mechanical... (more)
Three GE motors race out of Crozier Canyon, near Valentine, Ariz., with their St. Louis to Los Angeles intermodal train as they pass an eastbound Z train along the BNSF Seligman Subdivision. Th... (more)
An empty Union Pacific wind turbine train rounds a curve in front of the Martin Drake Power Plant in Colorado Springs, CO on November 6, 2017.
UP 2602 along with a couple pool units from CP and NS lead a westbound loaded ethanol train on the Cajon Sub near Hodge. Tacked onto the rear of the long train is a pair of SD70M manned helpers.
With a fresh crew on board and clear signals ahead, this domestic stack train will soon leave Las Vegas behind.
An eastbound BNSF empty oil train follows the banks of the Kootenay River approaching Troy, Montana, on the afternoon of October 8, 2017.
BNSF 7448 leads a westbound stack train through Moabi Regional Park on the California side of the Colorado river.
