Great Salt Lake crossing
An eastbound Union Pacific freight begins the long trek across Great Salt Lake at Lakeside, Utah. A wood trestle used to carry the line straight across directly... (more)

UP 844 and UP 2010 bring the Shiloh Limited down the UP Jonesboro Sub. at CP CB055 North Malden, headed towards Marion, AR. The special ran as UP Train SSLWM 28 today, and the UP 844 is in charge... (more)

The sun sets over the eastern Mojave Desert at Cadiz as you look to the west and see how much the tracks go up and down all the way to Amboy and Siberia.

The outbound 7:00 express heads toward the setting sun as light power heads toward Cicero.

A westbound Metra commuter train was passing through the station at Hinsdale, IL on May 9, 1991, led by Metra F40PH-2 No. 180. At the time, it was the only Metra unit operating on Metra trains be... (more)

A westbound Metra commuter train had just departed after unloading a crowd of passengers at the Highlands Station as a westbound express blasted by on the center track, led by E9U No. 9913.

BNSF 599 (ex-ATSF 666) leads the one of a kind Z train from Fresno,CA to Chicago,IL through Suwanee,NM 12/22/11. This train runs 4 days a week, and usually consists of stacks, refrigerated box car... (more)

A westbound stack train heads west as an eastbound approaches Winslow,AZ at sunset on 1/13/12.

As a westbound stack train departs, another westbound stack train arrives Winslow, AZ as the sun rises on 10/15/11

What a slow day. Only 4 trains all afternoon and nothing between 2PM and 5 (which is sunset). So seeing this Long Beach to Clovis stack train climbs over the crest was like the light at the end of... (more)

The BNSF Needles dispatcher clears the signal for this westbound BNSF container train pulling hard from a stop at Amboy. The train will soon be tackling the stiff grade on Ash Hill. If you look cl... (more)

BNSF 6615 near Amboy. Three other intermodal trains are visible in the distance.

Getting up the normal time for work on my day off paid off! A westbound coal train beats the morning commuter rush and CHCPTL, which had to wait until after the rush, and seems to come out of the... (more)

Traffic is moving across the high plains of central New Mexico on a busy Saturday on the BNSF transcon. On the 8 mile straightaway between Encino and Vaughn, three eastbound intermodals can be see... (more)

With three trains in view, the 1:00 pair of Metra trains are about to pass through rush hour only stop Highlands as a freight train can be seen in the distance.