Rainy weather has moved east at the end of the day on October 8, 2005, and the sun makes a brief appearance before dropping behind the mountains west of Helena, Montana, while Montana Rail Link EM... (more)

BNSF9273 & 9678 eastbound with a loaded coal train destined for Martin Lake Texas.

UP 8779 (SD70ACe) leads a manifest train through Pinecliffe on Christmas Eve as the snow falls in the high country.

Driving the Washington side of the river following quite a fruitful morning on the BNSF, shades of Armour Yellow moving quickly along the adjacent Oregon shoreline caught our attention as Union Pa... (more)

Union Pacific coal loads CWERI pass through the former ghost town of Woodside, trailed by their DPU.

The Union Pacific UP CWERI 10 coal drag comes to a stop over the Green River in Green River, Utah. It will wait here for Amtrak, and then pull onto the passing siding. This lone SD70ACe was the tr... (more)

Battling the grade up Mullen Pass with a loaded coal train, BNSF 9164 is at a steady 12 MPH at Austin.

BNSF 8409 (SD70ACe) leads a KCS unit towards Tunnel #1 at Plainview, Colorado.

Holding at West Daggett is BNSF Railway train U-RAVWAT7-12A, a unit train of tank cars full of ethanol, heading for the BNSF's Watson Yard, near the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and near a... (more)

An NS ACe solo leading a manifest train through Lafayette Station

KCS 4105 leads a southbound manifest train out of Heavener Oklahoma.

KCS 4151 leads an empty grain northbound through Poteau Oklahoma.

BNSF 9284 & 8493 eastbound with coal loads.

A quartet of Montana Rail Link SD70ACe helpers return from Elliston, MT to Helena after moving a westbound unit grain train over Mullan Pass (cut-in mid-train). Herds of cattle are not an uncommon... (more)

KCS and CP power has been well-mixed since the merger. Train K37 is a good example of that with one of each climbing out of the Mississippi River Valley on the way to Mason City. Late October ligh... (more)