A five-pack of BNSF power is firing on all cylinders to get this high-priority train to points west. FS Grain, the main feature of Ransom, Illinois, towers over the scene.
Crawling up Crozier Canyon, the Stockton, CA to Willow Springs, IL Z7 slowly emerges out of the red rock cliffs that surround the walls of the canyon on a windy, and chilly, February morning.
Four General Electric locomotives have no problem pulling this Z STOWSP7 intermodal train up Yampai Hill as it enters Crozier Canyon.
BNSF 4734 leads a westbound intermodal train out of the fog on a cold fall morning.
Priority merchandise for Northtown Yard sneaks out before the Drayton Local heads for the north line and a Milton shuttle heads for the yard to run the units around the train.
BNSF 4734 approaches with a trailer train in Ransom.
A pair of BNSF H2's sandwich a BNSF SD40-2 as they head west through Aurora.
BNSF 4734 pulls is train around the curve toward the BNSF/ICE diamond. He mat a train on Main 2 right beside me.
Eastbound stack train is about to duck under Hwy. 2 and enter the Cascade Tunnel at Scenic