As the morning sunlight begins to illuminate the Colorado Plateau, two BNSF intermodal trains can be seen battling the 1.5 percent grade. The first train, a Kansas City, KS to Port of Long Beach, ... (more)

The morning sun begins to peak over the horizon and illuminate the steel rails at Angell, Arizona along BNSF Seligman Subdivision. In the distance, the headlights of the BNSF 5294 can be seen batt... (more)

Four GE locomotives work hard up the western slope of the Arizona Divide with a heavy Los Angeles, CA to Logistics Park Chicago, IL intermodal train. The crew is about 15 miles away from reaching ... (more)

Two of BNSF's newest Tier 4 locomotives and two warn out Dash-9 locomotives pull a heavy Atlanta, GA to Los Angeles, CA intermodal train over the 7,000 ft high summit of the Arizona Divide as it ... (more)

With our patience growing thin, actually only Shelley Hunter's patience growing thin, due to the color weather and snow fall, a westbound BNSF stack train breaks through the wall of snow as it rac... (more)

The Santa Fe heritage still lives on the rails that were once ruled by blue and yellow locomotives. Darling, roughly fifteen miles east of Flagstaff, still has one of the original style station si... (more)

From the top of one of hills surrounding the Valentine community, a hot Chicago, IL to San Bernardino, CA intermodal train races westward towards Needles, CA for a new crew.

An eastbound Z-train rumbles through Kingman Canyon as it crosses over one of the high bridges, still embracing the Santa Fe logo, on a warm April evening.

EMD power is become a normal thing around the south west region of the former Santa Fe transcon. With coal train down, coal train locomotives have been sneaking their way into the LA pool route. O... (more)

The last few minutes of sunlight reflect off the side of an eastbound BNSF autorack train as it navigates through the S-curve at Hackberry, Arizona. The three units on the head end battle the grad... (more)

The hot Willow Springs, IL to North Bay, CA Z-train ( Z WSPNBY9 01L), races down Goffs Hill near Essex as the head end of the Z LACNYC9 can be seen chugging along in the top left of the frame.

The setting sun peaks through clouds on a warm, August evening in Arizona's high desert as an empty grain shuttle hustles eastward at Hackberry Rd. crossing.

Fresh powder from the night before lays on the ground near the summit of Arizona Divide as this Chicago, IL to Stockton, CA intermodal train battles the last few feet before reaching the 7,335 ft ... (more)

Approaching the River of the Pines, the Cumbres & Toltec westbound train for Chama, New Mexico slowly moves at the foothills of the hillsides that surround the valley. In the foreground is the tra... (more)

Looking down from Mars Hill on a chilly spring night, Amtrak's Southwest Chief #3, westbound servers from Chicago to Los Angeles, preforms its station work in Flagstaff as the rear of an eastbound... (more)