Into the setting sun comes BNSF 8219 at the old Allentown signals several miles west of Lupton, AZ. The staggered cantilevers on this left-hand running district had once accommodated a crossover, ... (more)

With 3 SD40-2s leading the way, the Longmont Switch pulls up the nearly 1.8% grade of Derby Hill out of Loveland, CO. The horseshoe curve and longer-than-normal train meant this train was WORKING,... (more)

An evolution of the rear of a train! BNSF 9179 shoves hard on the back of a loaded coal train as what we believe to be a former Rock Island caboose sits on display near the UP mainline. The lineag... (more)

With a train tied down in the siding, BNSF 6026 leads an empty coal train through the small town of Hampton, NE, before sunset. Highway 34 tends to not have much traffic on it through this part of... (more)

With an eastbound coal load crawling up the hill, BNSF 9676 is in full dynamics trying to keep its train below 20 mph as the train starts into the middle of 3 horseshoe curves, known as Upper Hors... (more)

Grinding up the 1.55% grade of Crawford Hill, BNSF 6132 east would be lucky to be going 10 mph, as two gevos pull hard on the front, and an SD70MAC and two SD70ACes shove hard on the rear.

Amtrak #5 has departed Hastings, NE, roughly 14.5 hours late after getting stuck behind a train that got stuck in a snowdrift. They ran around the offending train at the Hastings siding, where the... (more)

Amtrak #5 got stuck behind a grain train, which got stuck in a snow drift the previous night. With a 3rd Amtrak locomotive and 2 BNSF ES44AC's for power, the train pulls away from the depot, where... (more)

About 30 miles east of Hastings, NE, a grain train led by BNSF 5503 got stuck in a snow drift near the town of Sutton. This delayed both Amtrak #5 and #6 by 14+ hours and held up the Chicago to De... (more)

This eastbounder is negotiating Cardy Hill near Ethel, Missouri.

This older ES44DC has just crossed Beaver St. and goes West to climb the last bit of hill before reaching the Arizona Divide at 7300 feet.