The hot Willow Springs, IL to San Bernardino, CA Z8 races down the Crookton Cutoff as it races through the curves of Eagle Nest.

A pair of NS motors lead the New York, NY (NS) to Los Angeles, CA guarantee service intermodal train around the 70 MPH curve of Antares along BNSF"s Seligman Subdivision.

A KCS AC4400CW leads the X-BARQUA1-27C, an empty BNSF grain train out of the tunnel at Nelson, AZ. This double track tunnel was the only one of its kind on the entire Santa Fe system.

Running light engines between Tunnel Nos. 5 and 4 south of Clifton, Arizona, is the Arizona Eastern Railway’s South Siding to Clifton train making a second turn to Clifton on October 27, 2020. T... (more)

UP 6306 East with a candy cane ballast train climbs up through CP Sibyl

UP 6306 East charges upgrade through Sibyl with a Herzog ballast train in tow

An old tradition has started again in Ash Fork, AZ; crew changes. Starting in January, 2021, BNSF Railway has changed the crew district between Phoenix, AZ and Winslow, AZ to incorporate a ... (more)

Holding the siding at Abra, BNSF 4588 East waits for the hot Z WSPPHX9 to clear before departing. Instead of just pulling ahead through the east end of the siding, the BNSF 4588 will shove out the... (more)

The morning's Willow Spring, IL to Phoenix, AZ Z9 is on its final leg of its transcontinental journey as descends down the Colorado Plateau; approaching the wye at Drake.

This is Only A Test

On a test run prior to the summer steam season, Chief Mechanical Officer Sam Lanter takes Grand Canyon Railway (ex-Lake Superior & Ishpeming) Consolidation ... (more)

BNSF 6953 East rolls through Darling just as the first rays of sunlight peak over the hills

BNSF 9300 leads an EB empty grain train through Audley

Four GP38/38-2 Freeport McMoRan locomotives bring ten tankcars downgrade between Morenci and Clifton, Arizona, on October 27, 2020. The train is delivering interchange traffic to Arizona Eastern R... (more)

We arrived at this spot about 2 hours prior to the trains arrival. It was cloudy the entire time. Im contrast to most times trackside, about 10 minutes before the train showed up the sun began to ... (more)

BNSF 7024 struggles up the grade through flagstaff as they battle toward the AZ divide