These three were so bright I got a sunburn. Westbound on the former NYC Water Level Route.

Three Burlington Northern EMD SD70MACs haul a loaded BNSF Powder River Basin coal train past milepost 268 west of Alps, New Mexico, on February 27, 1999. This location is on BNSF’s Twin Mountain... (more)

A westbound BNSF grain load holds just east of the South Mojave interlocking for a Northbound UP Z to clear.

Three elephant-style GE's work their hearts out pulling an eastbound stack train around Trinidad Loop, located on the long 1% climb from the Columbia River up to Quincy.

Elephant ACes ease to a stop in fresh fall snow at scenic Ladoga, North Dakota. The empty coal train was unable to make the run to Mandan on a single crew, so will stop here for a dog catch crew t... (more)

The BNSF railway and old Rt 66 both wind their way through Kingman canyon and on this late afternoon day we catch a Chicago bound stack train making it's way eastward.

Three GE motors begin the climb up Yampai Hill as the sound of the engines roar with life, trying to fight gravity.

BNSF 4138 winding its way through the canyon just south of Davis Oklahoma on the BNSF Red Rock Sub

BNSF 5724 leads a westbound grain train between Ludlow and Ash Hill.

On March 5, 2012, an eastbound BNSF freight traverses the scenic Utah desert between Solitude and Floy, Utah, on Union Pacific’s Green River Subdivision. A pair of GE ES44DCs bracket a newer ES4... (more)

Essex is a lonely spot in California's Mojave Desert, on the former Santa Fe mainline between Los Angeles and Chicago. BNSF Railway train S-CLOSCO1-01A, powered by the typical assortment of ES44D... (more)

This train, the Union Pacific MRORV, was the second of three bunched up westbound trains I saw this day on Silver Zone Pass. It was behind the BNSF QPVS8J and ahead of a loaded coal train destined... (more)

A southbound oil train from the Bakken Fields of North Dakota hauls 100 tanker cars through Oroville, California on a perfect October morning. In the distance, the DPUs of this train cross a bridg... (more)

Another wild BNSF lashup heads west into Kingman Canyon.

Fall color was absolutely stunning at Elkhorn Tunnel as NS train 17M head west with UP 7730 on the point.