A stack train provides a nice splash of color as it eases along the single track east of Essex near Java on Marias Pass. Heavy snow in this area has caused issues this winter with an avalanche rec... (more)

In a move that only happens once every few weeks, a UP crew gets their BNSF diesels ready to head down the hill on the D&R to the UP interchange just east of downtown Russellville. On the other e... (more)

A double stack container train just out of Cushing makes its way east.

A short and all UPS Z races west on the Stockton Sub towards UPS's North Bay, CA facility. There this hotshot will drop its cut and take light power back to BNSF's Richmond, CA Yard for servicing... (more)

An unusual and sporadic move, here a G BARRIC comes blasting into Richmond with a unit grain train in tow. This train occasionally runs when there is a large grain block in Barstow and can also c... (more)

An eastbound stack train is arriving Winslow. The mountains in the background are behind Flagstaff some 45 miles away.

A former Great Northern snow dozer built at their St. Cloud, Minnesota shops plows an ex-NP line across north central Minnesota.

A westbound manifest train was stopped at MP 18. You can notice a plane flying at a very low altitude with Mt. Baker in the background.

BNSF's Pasadena Local has a bright leader in GP60M 132, a fairly recent repaint into the H3 scheme. The westbound local is short on this day at Dalton Avenue in Azusa, with only a covered hopper ... (more)

BNSF 7064 has been cooling it's heels in Skykomish while a workcrew keeps the Cascade Tunnel in tip top shape. Now after a 4 hour work window has passed and a nearly hour long trip from Skykomish... (more)

A pair of BNSF locos works the lead in Rice's Point Yard in Duluth

With three foreign units for power, Norfolk Southern train 213 rolls through the signals at control point Cox in Greensboro, North Carolina on February 28, 2014.