Loaded taconite train crosses the Wisconsin Southern at Crawford, south of Prairie du Chien. These SD60Ms were common thru the 90s on these heavy trains bound for Granite City. Scanned slide from ... (more)

The BNSF leased alot of junk power after the merger. The railroad needed alot of power to help thru the struggles they had moving freight. Some of the leasers were these ex-ATSF C30-7s that came f... (more)

An empty coal train from the Brookfield Sub swings around the corner and out the Waterman way towards Graham for another trip back to the coal fields. By 1996 AC power was getting to be common. Sc... (more)

The rear DPUs of a long north bound BNSF manifest help bring their train down into the lower Tehachapi Mountains and around the horseshoe curve in Keene, CA on a perfect spring morning. Cloud shad... (more)

A north bound BNSF intermodal drops down grade between Allard and Caliente and through tunnels 1 and 2 as the head end pops out of tunnel 1 on a warm summer morning.

Within the darkened depths of the Caliente Canyon, on a cool fall afternoon, is a south bound BNSF manifest slowly battling its way up through the switch back curves and only minutes from the town... (more)

Blink, blink, blink. A flashing rear end device on a south bound BNSF grain train blinks it’s way slowly up through the curves of Cable on a warm early summer night at around 1 am in the morning... (more)

The motion blur of a north bound BNSF manifest on a fall night.

A north bound BNSF intermodal is in the depths of a hot Tehachapi summer afternoon and the golden hillsides of the Allard horseshoe area as the trains exits the horseshoe curve and slowly works to... (more)

A long south bound BNSF manifest slowly rounds the horseshoe curve in Keene, CA on a cold winter morning in the Tehachapi mountains as a heavy central California valley fog is seen off in the dist... (more)

BNSF GP40-2 #3019 still wearing it's BN cascade green paint scheme, is seen resting for the weekend in Jasper, AL.

BNSF intermodal exiting the famed Tehachapi Loop.

BNSF manifest through Allard on a hazy afternoon.

The 2nd empty crude train in a row crosses Java Creek Trestle, climbing the west side of Marias Pass. The engine hood was replaced with an older Heritage II painted one.

2 BNSF DPUs bring up the rear of a north bound manifest as it slowly drifts by a holding BNSF south bound, down and out of Caliente and into the canyons just west of town.