Even though it's more than 25 miles away, Pikes Peak still looms large over the Greenland Open Space as a northbound manifest easily breezes through toward Larkspur. More info at Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: GE C44-9W (Dash 9-44CW)
Location: Greenland, Colorado, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF 737
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: June 21, 2009

BNSF 9123 brings up the rear of a northbound coal empty as it exits the peaceful scene in Greenland, CO. iPhone 5s photo.

A Z-train streaks west out of downtown Moorhead, MN and onto the bridge over the Red River of the North which brings it into Fargo, ND. More info at Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: GE ES44DC
Location: Fargo, North Dakota, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF 7407
Train ID: Z-CHCPTL
Photo Date: September 20, 2008

Join us at Alaska Railfanning! Two hours after call time, ARR 4015 breezes through Matanuska Junctio... (more)

AMTX coal struggles up the grade in Greenland behind a late-1990s power duo. I hope when Uncle Warren takes over he opens up the checkbook and puts the paint shops to work Swoosh'ing these all-to... (more)

ARR 3006 spends a lonely but gorgeous summer evening on the south side of the Alaska Railroad's diesel shop. Built as the class unit of this order of GP40-2s in April of 1975, this Geep is one of... (more)

What a rarity!! A southbound spartan NS 6-axle leading the Farmrail 97-car, 12800 ton covered hopper grain train. Still wet from a passing thunderstorm, NS 8878 crosses the FMRC diamond on its w... (more)

A pair of ACes brings up the rear of this northbound coal empty as it snakes into Castle Rock.

Crew change time on this eastbound stack train. NREX 254 is second out...

Will the units in this shot someday be referred to as having 'pre-merger' paint? Hmmm. For now though, the daily H-train leaves for run south toward Fargo.

The daily HEX departs Anchorage northbound over Ship Creek.

The Southern Pacific lives! Sort of. If you don't have a time machine, you can still catch nearly pristine SD45T-2s in Southern Pacific speed lettering on the Kyle Railroad! Here the former SSW... (more)

Looking far different than the typical BNSF and UP widecabs that frequent the Joint Line, the head-end power of Loram's RG301 pulls to a stop just north of the siding switch at Monument.

The third Coastal Classic of the 2014 season pops back into civilization and runs north through the mosquito-infested air just south of Portage. Alaska is a bastion of awesomeness, but if you're ... (more)

Coal empties westbound over the now-frozen Red River of the North. The Oakway will be left behind in the yard to power a later manifest, and after a crew change, BNSF 8258 and BNSF 8121, a newly ... (more)