Daytime Freight on the Coast Line

BNSF Railway train H-SDGBAR1-22 (High Priority Merchandise - today it is all autoracks - heading from San Diego to Barstow) crosses Santiago Creek a... (more)

A very off schedule BNSF freight heads up the Surf Line at San Clemente behind a pair of Tier 4 GEs. Westbound freights typically pass through here in the late evening hours, but today's train off... (more)

An E/B BNSF autorack train with a KCS trailing passes through the tiny town of Verona, Illinois where some remaining ATSF searchlights still stand. With looming PTC deadlines, their replacements a... (more)

I took off for work with the sole intent to catch this shot...I was looking to get the sun in it, but I was happy with the beautiful sunset. In this shot, an Eastbound stack train is approaching ... (more)

New BNSF GE 3959 leads a Q train upgrade at Berne, WA as it curves to head into the east portal of the Cascade Tunnel. The top of the grade on Stevens Pass is just inside the east end of the tunne... (more)

Late evening along the Metrolink San Gabriel Subdivision just west of BNSF's San Bernardino yard finds the Barstow to Kaiser Yard manifest with a trio of brand new 3700 class GE's, as it's about t... (more)

BNSF's Barstow to San Diego manifest freight makes it's San Bernardino set out at Rana with 3 brand new ET44C4's on the head end.

What a photo angle this would have been for shooting the Milwaukee Road! A train would emerge from Tunnel 9, slalom through the remainder of 16-Mile canyon, cross 16-Mile Creek twice, then make a ... (more)

A fairly short Q train featuring a couple Boeing 737 fuselages snakes along the Columbia River after crossing the Rock Island bridge. Freight trains are restricted to about 25 mph here due to curv... (more)

BNSF 3886 leads this Pasco to Laural freight downgrade towards Livingston.

An empty rail-carrying train heads south through Colorado Springs, CO on the morning of July 10, 2017.

On the first day of July 2017 the DPU of a Westbound manifest is seen pulling away from another beautiful sunrise at Canyon Diablo, Arizona on BNSF's Selgiman Sub.

GECX 2026 and 2027, now in a new sharp paint scheme for North American Coal await to be loaded and trucked to Farmington, NM where they will work on a short coal line with no outside connection.

An early monsoon forms north of the Kingman area as hot Z-train for San Bernardino, Calif. races down the grade from Walapai with an ET44C4 leading.