No eastbound chase in the Flagstaff area is complete without the shot at the Winona highway overpass. Here, on a clear October morning with the San Francisco Peaks in the background, an eastbound... (more)

A westbound stack train claws at the 2.2% grade across skyline Trestle. This rock out cropping has long been a favorite place to spend a lazy summer afternoon.... You can watch trains here for a ... (more)

A westbound coal load thunders around Iron Ridge on its climb for Mullan Pass. Mid-train are 4 MRL heavy SD70ACE swing helpers.... Mullan Pass is one of the best places to witness modern mountain... (more)

I’ve never regretted any train ride that I’ve taken, although I usually am thinking about the photos that I’m missing while on board the train, and I don’t make a priority of riding for th... (more)

Some former Santa Fe units still earn their keep with BNSF today. Two such units lead a short local southbound on the Saint Joseph Subdivision having just exited Hobson Yard.

WB grain wends its way along the Columbia River a couple of miles west of Maryhill, WA

Looking down on the famous Crozier Canyon, a SD70ACe motor leads a loaded auto train through the S-curve within the heart of the Canyon as the two units grind up towards Yampai Summit.

The a colorful Slaton, TX to Barstow, CA manifest train rumbles down the from Goffs through the small Route 66 town of Essex on a spring evening in the Mojave Desert.

As last light settles at the summit of Goffs Hill, along the BNSF Needles Sub, a pair of GE motors crest the summit with their long string of empty intermodal equipment for the ports of Los Angele... (more)

With the San Francisco Peaks in the background, an eastbound stack train swings around the curve leading to the Cosnino Road grade crossing east of Flagstaff.

The vertical curve at Maine is clearly evident as an eastbound stack train approaches the grade crossing. In another 12 miles the train will end its long climb from Needles, California (elevation... (more)

With Austin siding now extended to Weed, train meets here are very frequent. A westbound manifest is about to meet a eastbound grain train on this new short section of "Double Track" o... (more)

SP262 charges up the heavy grade at West Mitchell. The train is sitting on the longest sustained portion of 3% grade on Tennessee Pass. The head-end is about to enter a short section of the origin... (more)

A pair of BNSF-owned Evolution Series locomotives lead a long stack train south through Monument, CO on October 25, 2017.