An NS 251 RoadRailer in the foreground fights the hardest part of the seven-mile grade to Erlanger, KY, as a northbound vehicle train comes down the hill into view. The old, unused yard in the for... (more)

When UP 7822 West reaches Wills Point, he finds Amtrak No. 22 waiting for him on the main just shy of the switch into the siding. The dispatcher runs the big stack train into the hole so the Texas... (more)

UP 7822 West, a fast-moving stack train with two diesels on the point and a DPU on the rear, drops down into a river bottom between the little towns of Fruitvale and Edgewood, TX. The density of t... (more)

A BNSF QKCKSAG run-through RoadRailer from Ft. Wayne, IN, on the NS (symbol 267) meets an eastbound grain train at Gardner, KS. The classic Santa Fe signal bridges in this photo are now gone, as i... (more)

On the 4th of July, 2008, UP 4141 leads a manifest toward Tower 55 in Ft. Worth. The train appears to be an MFWHO, bound for Houston. At the tower, the train will turn the corner and head south fo... (more)

On August 2, 2008, UP had a long string of power in its LUGO (Laid Up, Good Order) line at the east end of Davidson Yard. The reason? A big drop in traffic due to the deep recession that had swept... (more)

UP 4141 leads a southbound manifest past a UP coal load stopped on Main Two south of Tower 55. The George Bush unit will continue down Main One and cross over to take its train down the Midlothian... (more)

An eastbound BNSF coal load makes its way down the multiple hogbacks east of Bellevue, TX. The little town is just beyond the point where U.S. 287 crests the hill in the distance. Although the Wic... (more)

After meeting a westbound stack train at Wills Point, TX, just after sunrise, the conductor climbs back aboard UP 5478 East. The dispatcher will waste no time in giving this stack train a light. T... (more)

As a couple of westbound BNSF freights wait for a light to get into Argentine Yard, light power led by a GP30 comes around the corner at CP 35 and heads for the facility. A light rain is falling, ... (more)

On a beautiful May afternoon in 2010, westbound BNSF coal empties negotiate the radical hogbacks just east of Bellevue, TX. From our vantage point between the northbound and southbound lanes of U.... (more)

Four-axle power brings a transfer freight up the Gooseneck in heavy rain. Headed in the opposite direction is a vehicle symbol headed down the Fort Scott Sub. The transfer run is out of Argentine ... (more)

As an eastbound stack train departs BNSF's Argentine Yard, 4429 West rocks through a switch as it heads into the giant facility. In the distance, CP and NS transfer freights wait for a light to en... (more)

ATSF 5818 East, a hot 991 train, rounds a curve at Christie on the west side of Franklin Canyon. During the SP-ATSF merger era, Santa Fe painted quite a number of SD45-2s into the SPSF paint schem... (more)

On a hot afternoon in August 1988, SP 9380 East, a long drag that appears tp have originated in the Pacific Northwest, climbs through the giant s-curve on the approach to tunnel 2. Cut in mid-trai... (more)