A SD70MAC, sporting the iconic BN executive paint scheme, leads a Sioux City, IA to Barstow, CA manifest through Flagstaff as it slowly grinds up the grade of the Arizona Divide.

A pair of SD40-2 roar with life as they pull up the grade out of Cimarron, KS on a lengthy La Junta local.

A 120 car load coal train sits in front of the depot in La Junta, CO as it waits for the outbound crew to board to begin their 250 miles down the Boise City Subdivision to Amarillo, TX.

A loaded coal train for a Texas power planet races through the flood plains of the Arkansas River near NA Junction on a warm summer afternoon.

The Dodge City, KS to Pueblo, CO manifest train sits in the siding of Manzanola due there not being any room in Pueblo yard for the train. These "Dodge-Pue" seem to always get staged in ... (more)

Amtrak's Charger test train races across northern New Mexico at Hebron on a hot summer morning. The purpose of the test train was to see how Amtrak's new Siemens SC-44 Charger units handle on a lo... (more)

Starting to move again after waiting for M.o.W to clear up at Springer and to get a new track warrant, AMTK 202 leads a test train with a pair of Amtrak's new Charger units to see how they'll hand... (more)

Running nearly 8 hours down, and with a little help from the Brand New Santa Fe, Amtrak's Southwest Chief #3 races through Delhi, CO where the last mainline wigwag crossing sign still service stan... (more)

With a fresh crew and a good warrant, BNSF 6305 begins the long journey across Colorado as it hauls 12,634 feet of empty coal cars. BNSF has increased their numbers of double empty coal trains ove... (more)

With a fresh crew on board, the hotshot Global I, IL to Brooklyn (Portland), OR UPS train waste no time rippin' on the throttle and leaving Green River for the all-night trip to Ogden, UT as yard ... (more)

A pair of EMD motors shove the rear of the an empty coal train between Beshoar and Barela as the crew trucks towards their final destination of Trinidad.

Crawling at a whopping 10 MPH, this heavy coal load is finally done doing the three hour battle up the northern slope of the Palmer Divide. Here, the engineer begins to watch his train crest the s... (more)

With a storm cell working in the background, the DP motors of an empty coal drag charge their way up the Palmer Divide as they roll through the city of Colorado Springs.

After a thunder storm rolled through Trinidad, the clouds broke free in time for the sun to shine on this empty coal train returning to the Powder River Basin. Here, a shuttle crew rounds the hors... (more)

With an afternoon thunder storm rolling through in the background, an empty coal drag works its way through the curves between Mayne and Walsenburg along the former BN Spanish Peak Sub.