Speeding at 75 miles per hour (120.7 km/h) through Arizona's Mohave County on a gloomy December morning is BNSF Railway Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train Z-WSPSTO7-16A. BNSF ET44C4 3742, SD70ACe ... (more)

The sound of dynamic brakes whining echo through Crozier Canyon as the Z-NYCLAC4 (New York, NY to Los Angeles, CA) descends down the 1.3% grade of Crozier Canyon.

With a week left of Peak Season 2023, six GE locomotives are polishing the rails with hotshot San Bernardino, CA to Willow Springs, IL Z2. With a total of 26,400 horsepower, this Z-train has no is... (more)

Morning sunlight peaks through the thin layer of clouds to illuminate the Music Mountains as four locomotives descend into Crozier Canyon with a hot Willow Springs, IL to Stockton, CA Z-train near... (more)

An eastbound BNSF Z train obliterates a small snowdrift at Bellemont as it charges east towards Flagstaff, Winslow and points east. This was my first ever encounter with snow railfanning, and I wa... (more)

BNSF 1022, still sporting BNSF's H1 paint scheme, leads an 8,600' Denver, CO to San Bernardino, CA repo baretable train out of Crozier Canyon.

A rare "Hi-Wide" movement is led by two BNSF GE motors as they slowly move through Crozier Canyon as they near Valentine where a relief crew will takeover for the remainder of the trip i... (more)

Five Freeport-McMoRan EMD GP38/38-2 locomotives roar loudly through corral cut while climbing the steep three to five percent grade from the Arizona Eastern Railway interchange at Clifton, Arizona... (more)

The hottest train on the system, the Willow Springs, IL to North Bay, CA Z1, races down the nearly 1% grade of Walapai at 70 MPH as it hauls 7,200' of train with 36 UPS loads for Northern Californ... (more)

The hot Willow Springs, IL to San Bernardino, CA Z-train races west out of Valentine as it starts to reach track speed of 70 MPH.

A Willow Springs, IL to North Bay, CA Z-train begins to gain speed as it clears the permeant 55 MPH speed restriction at Valentine. For the next 30 miles, this hotshot UPS train will be doing all ... (more)

Monday, Nov. 20th, was the official start of "Peak Season". From now till Christmas Eve, supply chain companies will see their highest volume of packages of the year. To tackle this logi... (more)

Monday, Nov. 20th, was the official start of "Peak Season". From now till Christmas Eve, supply chain companies will see their highest volume of packages of the year. To tackle this logi... (more)

Union Pacific GE ES44AC No. 7457 leads a westbound UP stack train over Cienega Creek Bridge near Vail, Arizona, on the morning of April 22, 2017.

Two DPUs shove on the rear as this manifest makes the climb east out of Benson.