An eastbound BNSF grain train sails across Bridge 62 spanning the inlet of Swamp Creek into the Clark Fork at Tuscor, Montana, on the crisp morning of October 5, 2020.
About an hour before thunderstorms would arrive on this hot 95-degree afternoon, BNSF 4678 passes by the Kansas City Union Depot with a string of grain cars.
BNSF 4598 west with an Ash Train heads west towards Argentine Yard while a coal train from Juliette, GA/NS comes off the Fort Scott heading towards Murray.
TULTEA headed towards Teague crosses a local at Gribble crossing at Royal lane, Dallas.
An extra manifest, running as a unit train with 264 containers of New York City trash, passes under an abandoned ACL bridge on it's way to the landfill in Uniontown, AL.
Birmingham-Mobile #385 gets moving after meeting a northbound coming off the 3B District, passing the relatively large two story Alabama Great Southern RR Station.
Santa Fe 650 leads an eastbound manifest out of Abo Canyon on the long grade to Mountainair. A second main track was added to this busy route a few years later but at this time the railroad was pu... (more)
NS 51V sits quietly in the Bluefield yard awaiting a crew to bring it west. The train came into the yard with a C6M leader, but it was cut off when it arrived in the yard. Before the train left ... (more)
BNSF 1093 (Dash9) leads a formation of Boeing 737 fuselages in a low-level mission.
649 is on the point of a local freight waiting for a crew. The unit has been in service nearly 30 years plus milage.
BNSF 4018 & 6695 westbound with a unit grain train.
BNSF’s Laurel to Denver priority freight (HLAUDEN) exits 177-foot Tunnel 4 between the sidings of Dornick and Piper while negotiating Wyoming’s rugged Wind River Canyon on June 25, 2023.
BNSF 1093 (Dash9) leads two Boeing 737 fuselages through Littleton, Colorado on the Joint Line.
BNSF 4327 (Dash9) leads a coal train past the old Rollins Pass Mercantile store as it runs down the mountain towards Denver, Colorado.
Not the local train power I'd hoped for, but a train is a train and the Chattanooga-Harriman turn counts even with unremarkable diesels.