Running 15 hours late, Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief limps down towards Kingman, Ariz., with a CitiRail GEVO leading.

Darkness begins to settle along the Arizona/ New Mexico border as westbound stack train races into the Grand Canyon State with 7,000 feet of cargo for the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Three General Electric locomotives notch up as they pull a Barstow, CA to Memphis, TN manifest train out of the sag near Hackberry with a July sunset happening in the background.

As a pair of surfers wait their turn to "shred the gnar" along the coast of Emma Wood State Beach, Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner train #790 races southward towards Los Angeles right along t... (more)

As the last rays of summer solstice sun shine on the steel rails of the BNSF Transcon in Seligman, Ariz., the high priority Z LACWSP9 Z-train races into the small Route 66 town. In the background... (more)

An early monsoon forms north of the Kingman area as hot Z-train for San Bernardino, Calif. races down the grade from Walapai with an ET44C4 leading.

Four GE motors races out of Kingman Canyon on a Memphis, TN to Los Angeles, CA intermodal train as they sneak behind the "Big Rig Doll House".

Running just over six hours late, Amtrak's Southwest Chief, #3, races down grade from Antares as it makes its way into Kingman. With the help of an ex-ATSF SD40-2, BNSF 1731 gets the honors of pul... (more)

Former ATSF #5163, now BNSF 1731, pulls a six hour late Southwest Chief across the BNSF Seligman Subdivision and the busy Transcon. Rich in former Santa Fe history, the Transcon still has many sig... (more)

Running just over six hours late, Amtrak's Southwest Chief, #3, rounds the shaded curves of Kingman Canyon with a EMD SD40-2 leading, BNSF 1731. Formerly ATSF 5163, this 37 year old locomotive get... (more)

The tail end of a San Bernardino, CA to Alliance, TX intermodal leaves the great state of Arizona for New Mexico, it begins the one percent grade up the western slope of the Arizona Divide, across... (more)

As the last glow of sun rises over the western horizon, one of BNSF's Willow Springs, IL to Los Angeles, CA UPS trains begins it all night journey to across the Mojave Desert and into the Los Ange... (more)

Four hard working GE motors charge eastward through Crozier Canyon, pass the homestead, as storm light settles in on a late July evening.

On Christmas Eve morning, Crozier Canyon was hit with a heavy snow storm. Dropping an inch and a half within an hour, a CSX interchange stack train can be see cutting through the snowfall; and col... (more)

The first train of the year for me would be a colorful one. BNSF's Barstow to Galesburg manifest would have a lash up consisting of BNSF, CSX, NS, and UP power. Here, the heavy manifest slowly gri... (more)