An eastbound coal train climbs through the big horseshoe curve below Belmont on Nebraska’s Crawford Hill on September 16, 2008. Two former BN EMD SD60Ms are mated with warbonnet GE Dash 9 No. 76... (more)

BNSF 147, sporting a remarkably sharp coat of "Super Fleet" Warbonnet paint, heads up the 2nd Watson as it rolls out of the Watson Yard in Wilmington.

It's a long, rigorous district running from Needles to Winslow. On a Saturday morning ATSF 115 East hustles through the old division point of Seligman as it makes a run for the Arizona Divide.

For a while, some of BNSF’s SD75M fleet was in helper service on Crawford Hill in Nebraska. Here, a set of three, each in a different scheme, shoves hard on the DPU of an eastbound coal load cli... (more)

An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight climbs Tehachapi Pass at Cable, California, on March 7, 2001. Warbonnet GE Dash 9 No. 681 still looks good, and the locomotive consists back then ... (more)

Best. Paint. Scheme. Ever.

Amtrak San Diegan #78 makes its stop in Santa Ana late in the day on an August 1971 afternoon. Amtrak was just over three months old at this time, ... (more)

A Patched Santa Fe B40-8W and an Executive Painted SD70MAC sits in the Riverbank Yard.

Santa Fe 855 leads a double stack train past the Stronghurst Depot in September of 1993.

Slamming through Cameron, IL on the 4th of July is a westbound intermodal outfit with ATSF 250, 621, 687 and CR 5558.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s Denver to Stockton manifest freight passes the DPUs of an eastbound Union Pacific coal load at Leyden, Colorado, on April 9, 2001.

Very new BNSF 8253 was waiting for it's next run east at Santa Fe's Hobart diesel facility with Santa Fe lettering on the nose and BNSF lettering on it's side.

It is a hot day to venture out for photos but the variety in the BNSF engine service facility never disappoints.

Nice to see another Warbonnet (fake bonnet) among all the H3 power these days. BNSF waits for assignment on a warm summer morning.

On the last day of July, a nice looking fakebonnet heads to the fuel racks after bringing empty auto racks to Rivergate in North Portland.

I think many of these units are in storage, so I felt pretty lucky catching this rail train powered by a pair of Dash 9s waiting at Machens for the main to clear.