A pair of 3600 series "Heavies" grind up the grade of Crawford Hill with 136 cars of Wyoming's Black Thunder mine coal for Alabama Power's J.W Miller Plant in Palos, AL. With a year of s... (more)

BNSF 3317 and BNSF 3318 battle a 1.4% grade near Belmont, NE as these new General Electric ES44ACH "Heavies" make their first trip on a coal load over Crawford Hill.

A CP locomotive leads a Sweet Grass, MT to Guernsey, CA grain shuttle as it climbs the 1.5% grade of the Palmer Divide near Spruce, CO.

An empty grain heads back to Alberta, MN to get reloaded as it climbs the 1.4% grade of Crozier Canyon. Even though this train has three motors, only two of them are working to pull this 113 car t... (more)

Eight locomotives are on the point of the Z-ALTSBD as it rounds the 70 MPH curve at Antares.

The hot New York, NY to Los Angeles, CA Z-train races out of Valentine as it reaches the track speed of 70 MPH.

A 22 engine powermove from Topeka, KS to Barstow, CA has just crossed the Arizona/ New Mexico State Line as it traverses BNSF's Gallup Subdivision at Lupton, AZ.

A westbound Z-train races across the Gallup Sub and crossing into Arizona/New Mexico State Line at Lupton, AZ.

BNSF 8994 North leads an empty coal train back to Wyoming's Powder River Basin as it descends UP's Main Two track after topping over the summit of the Palmer Divide. On BNSF's Main One track, a lo... (more)

As a summer thunderstorm rolls over the rockies, UP 7005 leads a 95 car empty oil train from Saint James, LA back to the oil fields of Utah as it emerges out of Tunnel 1 and approaches the siding ... (more)

Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr descends down the 2% grade of the Moffat Tunnel Sub as it approaches Tunnel 1 near Plainview siding. Due to summer heat, the Union Pacific Railroad has issued ... (more)

Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr races across Barr Lake during sunset after performing its station work and a crew change at Denver Union Station. AMTK 160, the Phase III "Pepsi Can"... (more)

A westbound coal load for Donnie, TX traverses over Barr Lake as it nears the crew change point of Denver along BNSF's Brush Subdivision.

A high priority Z-train races no time traversing Arizona's high desert as night begins to settle in at Hackberry, AZ. This San Bernardino, CA to Willow Springs, IL Z-train is running east on Main ... (more)

A 100 car empty cement train crest over the summit of Palmer Lake after making the 50 mile climb from Denver as it heads for the GCC Cement Plant in Minnequa, CO.