BNSF 4377 leads a southbound manifest through Lake Cormorant, MS on the CN Yazoo Sub. Most of the town is visible in the background.

I was hoping to catch this Galesburg to St. Louis train much earlier in the morning, but they went into the siding for every oncoming eastbound train. Here the are trying to make time on the home... (more)

BNSF 8213 leads a long string of J. B. Hunt containers east on the Norfolk Southern Memphis District. Frisco 1351, a 2-8-2, can be seen in the background along with a caboose and an old Southern R... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s Denver to Stockton manifest freight gets some help up the front range of the Rocky Mountains from a pair of EMD SD40-2 helpers on the rear. The head end of the tra... (more)

The DPU's of two empty coal trains sit idle waiting to be sent to one of the mines in the Powder River Basin. While an eastbound manifest snakes it's way by.

Another view of the signal bridges at Edelstein, which appear to be nearing their final demise.

Here we caught up to the train west of the small town of Regal, at a spot where we get a nice view of the train for several miles out. While the Paynesville Sub gets lots of foreign power, seeing ... (more)

Not your typical power on the CP, a BNSF GEVO and unpatched warbonnet (#697) lead an empty sand train west towards Glenwood.

On a mild day for February, BNSF 2128 leads the Aurora Local past a bunch of dormant grass and the last remaining snow from a storm the week before.

BNSF 4762 East, an extra carrying military vehicle, passes the famous Route 66 sign in Kingman, AZ. The eastbound has just exited Kingman Canyon, and is now headed for the long tangent on the flat... (more)

Pulling a string of empty hoppers back to Denver from the Coors Brewery in Golden, 1993, in Cascade Green, is starting to look a little long in the tooth moving down 44th Avenue in Golden.

A BNSF trackage rights westbound freight is almost through the tunnel district as it starts on the 12-degree horseshoe curve just east of Pinecliffe. The curve is the sharpest east of the Moffat T... (more)

BNSF 662 leads the Lincoln-Hastings manifest through a completely white landscape. This area is beautiful during the Summer with wildflowers and cornfields but in the Winter the landscape is dead.

The quiet of the morning is disturbed by this coal train nearing its destination at Portage de Sioux power plant.

For a town of less than 3,000 people, the Staples Station is impressive. It looks like the front end of 7890 was hastily repaired and painted after an altercation with a vehicle.