Fresh snow covers the Music Mountain Range, and the region of Truxton as a Kansas City, KS to Barstow, CA manifest holds the siding at Truxton. The train is has been staged here since the night be... (more)

As dusk settles in over the Hualapai Nation town of Peach Springs, the roar of powerful, six axle locomotives break the peaceful silence of the land. This San Bernardino, CA to Atlanta, GA (interc... (more)

The lone DP motor of the Q-STOATG (Stockton, CA to Atlanta, GA) traverses over the Truxton Flyover as the snow from the night before has started to melt.

At nearly 10,000 feet long, BNSF's San Bernardino, CA to Willow Springs, IL Z6 charges out of Crozier Canyon after first snow fall of 2022 for the region. Shortly after this, the 3rd motor on this... (more)

Fresh snow covers the summit of Yampai Hill for the first time of 2022. Here, a 10,000 ft Denver, CO to San Bernardino, CA Q-train slowly crest the grade while the crew tries to race to meet the d... (more)

Like a scene out of the early 2000s, a pair of BNSF lettered warbonnet race out of the Audley Valley, near Seligman, with a hot North Bay, CA to Alliance, TX UPS Z-train. This intermodal service h... (more)

1+1=1 What is becoming more of a normal sight along BNSF's Southern Transcon, a combo stack train descends into Crozier Canyon with five middle distributed power (DP) locomotives. Running u... (more)

A 2x2 Kansas City (Logistic Park), KS to Port of Long Beach (Southern California On-Dock), CA stack train slowly negotiate the 25 MPH section of track within Crozier Canyon.

Three powerful GE locomotives battle the grade of the Kingman Canyon as they pull a long Oakland, CA to Memphis, TN intermodal train.

BNSF 6163, one of BNSF's 25th anniversary locomotives, leads a nine car officer special back to Topeka, KS as it crosses over the Truxton Flyer. These nine cars were part of the 16 car passenger s... (more)

The spirit of the Santa Fe still lives on in 2020. BNSF 698, ex-Santa Fe warbonnet, leads a westbound Q-train through the rural community of Valentine. In 2020, BNSF began to install PTC on their ... (more)

An empty grain shuttle begins to descend down Yampai Hill on its trip east across the Seligman Sub.

3,700 feet of intermodal cargo for Northern California enters Cherokee Canyon on an Alliance, TX to Stockton, CA Z7 as it was the last train during a fleet of afternoon Z-trains.

A Willow Springs, IL to Los Angeles, CA Z7 makes its way into Cherokee Canyon on a pleasant February afternoon. With a track speed of 45 MPH through the canyon, this train was doing closer to 25 M... (more)

The hot Willow Springs, IL to North Bay, CA UPS Z9 train waste no time racing through Cherokee Canyon. Here, this hotshot is running on main #1, generally used by eastbounds, to get around another... (more)