While oil traffic has declined severely over the past few years, BNSF has made up the loss a little bit by successfully marketing unit sand traffic to fracking operations across the system. One su... (more)
A Kansas City to Barstow manifest starts its way west on single track as a small line of thunderstorms is dropping a lot of rain and a little hail off to the east.
A short lived "popcorn" thunderstorm brews far away in the distance as this westbound manifest rolls west on its 230 mile journey across the Sunflower State.
Springtime has finally arrived as this westbound grain train, heading for export at Eagle Pass, TX, pulls out of a slow moving rain squall and into the setting sun. Lady luck was on my side for th... (more)
A late Amtrak 4 scurries through the rural community of Scranton on the original stretch of Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe mainline from Topeka to Emporia, built between 1868 and 1870. Present day... (more)