When first arriving on the scene, the GP60M was the pride of Sante Fe's Superfleet hauling hot intermodal trains on the Transcon between Los Angeles and Chicago, but look at how times have changed... (more)

A faded nose herald does nothing to change the fact that it's still cool to see an SD40-2 on the point on a Class I mainline, even if it is leading a one-car local north toward Denver.

After traveling all the way from Larkspur, through the Greenland Open Space and past The Sag under a blanket of cloud cover, BNSF 9322 crests the Palmer Divide in Palmer Lake and pops into a fortu... (more)

A nice unibrow horsehead NS 9387 splits the signals at the west end of the New Baden siding as it throttles west toward E. St. Louis.

It's so good to see EMD's first-generation widecabs running the rails again for BNSF. Here the H-LAUAMA beats feet south into Colorado Springs.

It's a nice surprise to catch an ex-BN 'mini-tunnel motor' on the point of a train, an increasingly rare sight as there are only 12 GP15-1s left on the BNSF roster. Here the crew of BNSF 1497 wai... (more)

EMD's latest power on the point of eastbound coal leaving the yard in Dilworth, MN.

A fairly new BNSF ACe leads empty Clay Boswell coal across western Minnesota elephant-style with a pair of older generation coal power. Note sure what's up with the weird green paint on the MAC t... (more)

The Pikes Peak Local works north on Main 2 entering Larkspur with a nice GP40/GP60 duo providing the horses.

After passing an eastbound Z-train (visible on Main 2), BNSF 8103 and its crazy number boards leads coal empties west onto the sweeping curve in Hawley, MN.

Coal loads roll south out of the Air Force Academy behind...BF 6198?!? Not quite! BNSF 6198 was involved in a train-truck collision in June of 2009 in Perham, MN; it was repaired but just not qu... (more)

ATSF lives? A you-gotta-look-close-to-see-the-patch Warbonnet leads a rail train north through the Greenland Open Space.

Pumpkin I paint leads a long manifest westbound in late afternoon light. Thanks to MN Chris and Mitch W., fellow members of the Northern Plains XT Gang, for inspiring this shot!

Coal empties run north behind consecutive generations of General Electric AC-power. When I lived in North Dakota, I liked to get a grain elevator in the background for those across-the-field-type... (more)

After holding at the crossover on Main 1 for almost an hour to wait for three eastbounds to clear, one of which was also on Main 1, this empty coal train accelerates down the hill. Note the third... (more)