MRL's Day Gas Local heading eastbound past the old NP station at Paradise, MT on a pleasant 18° January morning.

Just a passing photograph of BNSF 5638 playing rear DPU (along with DASH-9 BNSF 4102) on an eastbound S-LHWLPC1-13 stack train. Captured at Placentia, CA running Main 1 on BNSF's San Bernardino Su... (more)

BNSF 762, a nice looking Warbonnet GE, leads a Belen, NM to Barstow, CA manifest around the bend at Ludlow, CA in the middle of the Mojave Desert on BNSF's Needles Sub.

DRGW 5771 warming up in the summer sunshine, proudly on display at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado.

UP 7963 seen passing the distinctive red cliffs west of Burns, CO along the Colorado River section of UP's Moffat Tunnel Sub.

Amtrak train No. 6 the eastbound California Zephyr basks in the afternoon sun as races east at Parshall, CO.

Late afternoon monsoonal moisture building up behind BNSF's Provo-Denver manifest as it enters UP's Dotsero Cutoff just north (east) of Dotsero, CO.

BNSF 7120 brings the Q-CHISBD6-14 down hill, traversing one of the many now naturally landscaped fills created during the railroad's triple-tracking efforts a few years back. This location is just... (more)

With their dynamic brakes roaring away, dissipating most the locomotives' tractive effort in the form of heat, the BNSF 7120 brings the Q-CHISBD6-14 down hill along the Cajon Pass route.

South of HWY 138, BNSF 6805 West on the Q-NYCLAC1-15. In another mile or so this train will wind its way around Sullivan's Curve into Cajon Station.

South of HWY 138 BNSF 6805 West on the Q-NYCLAC1-15 passing in front of a pair of SCE's Path 46 transmission line towers.

MRL GP35 403, SD45-2 311, & SD40-2XR 263 on MRL's 844 Local, leading a 36 car cut of ballast hoppers westward into Jefferson Canyon towards MRL's Pipestone Quarry on MRL's 5th Sub.

MRL Helpers (MRL SD70ACe 4303; SD40-2XRs 264, 262; SD45-2s 331, & 330) seen here on a five unit helper set hanging onto the middle of a loaded 15,000 ton coal train as it eases down the west side... (more)

Five MRL SD70ACes screaming away on a helper set cut 66 cars into the middle of a 113 car loaded BNSF grain train. Seen here working it's way around the horseshoe curve at Austin, MT, the train is... (more)

BNSF ES44C4 6848, and C44-9W 4631, are soaking up the last rays of Monday's sunshine. BNSF road power at Commerce Diesel Service (in the City of Commerce, CA), ready to pull eastbound stack trains... (more)