Getting there. Not quite the soon-to-be standard van power of a quartet of GP40s, this train, most likely Mail 9, has a GP38-2 in the third slot as it take a run at Horseshoe Curve.
Train is about five miles as the crow flies from the photographer. One can see about the same distance down line the other direction as well. No such thing as one "sneaking up on you" in this neck... (more)
BNSF 745 (Dash944CW) leads a freight of tanker cars onto a parallel track as the third engine lays down a smoke trail along the way.
Nearing the end of its end trip through the golden hills of the Tehachapi's, BNSF C44-9W 4824 leads a Manifest past the crossovers at Cable
With a fine dusting of snow having fallen overnight, Union Pacific 7226 heads out of the P-Burg yard with this Eastbound loaded coal train.
Canadian Pacific Nos. 9816 and 9541 (along with DPU No. 8873) power a 132-car coal train west of Drynoch, British Columbia, in the scenic Thompson River Canyon on the morning of July 23, 2011.
UP5941 is the leader of a Soda Ash train bound for loading on Ocean Ships on the Columbia River. The trains power is distributed 2x5x1 to get over the steep grades of the PNW. The Pritchard Cree... (more)
BNSF 7558 leads a Kansas City to Los Angeles train at the Natural crossovers at Frost.
A BNSF Scherer coal train working hard up the Braswell Mountain grade.
UP 6653 heading up a southbound train of covered hoppers near the grade crossing in Palmer Lake, Colorado.
A westbound UP stack train passes one of the many Sonoran Cactus in the Shawmut area as it heads towards Gila Bend to meet 3 eastbounds on 11/24/12.
Sonoran cactus bathe in the desert sun as a eastbound UP Z train passes by at Shawmut,AZ on 11/24/12.
A UP stack train heads east for Dallas,TX as it passes beneath the famed Cienega Creek bridge east of Vail,AZ on 11/23/12. The tree's leaves in the creek bottom are finally starting to turn, even ... (more)
A southbound passes Normantown, about to meet the norhtbound L521.
A late afternoon stack train racing west through Elmhurst.
