Dusk falls across the Arizona desert east of Kingman as a BNSF stack train works eastbound in October 2010 with the lights ok Kingman and Route 66 glowing in the background.

Not a race--two eastbound intermodal trains wait out a traffic jam just west of Winslow. The SD75M wears "Santa Fe" on its nose, but "BNSF" on its flanks--the last roundup for newly painted warbo... (more)

With a z-train hot on its heels (visible in the distance), a BNSF manifest begins its climb out of the San Joaquin Valley towards the summit at Tehachapi.

Moving along at 60mph, this eastbound stack brings itself into the State of Nebraska.

A mid-morning stack train hammers up the long straightaway between Portage and Cassandra on track 2...

With "Bolo Hill" in the distance, Warbonnet EMD's smoke it up as they fly west through the Route 66 town of Amboy along BNSF's Needles Subdivision.

While waiting for the A772, I couldn't help but admire how straight the track is, and how uniform the ties and tie clips are.

The evening westbound Quincy train passes up a special on track 3 to pick up passengers from Hinsdale to CUS. The guy who biked to the bridge is either unaware the special's coming up behind him ... (more)

UP 5832 serves as one of the DPUs on WB coal loads on the former Western Pacific main across Utah as they skirt the southern edge of the Great Salt Lake. The track is awfully straight here, vanis... (more)

Amboy Crater dominates the landscape and the Bullion Mountains provide a background as a 10,000 ft Q train works east through Cadiz, CA on the long climb to Goffs after crossing Bolo Hill.

Busy times on the Racetrack. Three trains can be be seen in this rush-hour view of Highlands station, on BNSF's Racetrack west of Chicago. Metra 185 shoves a train east towards downtown, wh... (more)

Eastbound stack/pig train approaching Winslow

Rush hour! A Metra express flies west on track 2 under the ex-CB&Q signal bridge by the Highlands station. A 'suburban' making the station stops on track 1 can be seen under the middle sign... (more)

An Amtrak regional and Acela express battle it out on the straight away before hitting the Elizabeth S curve.

An eastbound stacktrain running elephant style approached me in Commerce. My first visit to the platform and I didn't realize it was such a straight shot in both directions.