The Kelly Lake local makes a special and somewhat rare delivery consisting of one coal load to the Hibbing Public Utilities on a cold and snowy February morning. The utility burns bio-mass for the... (more)

Big Power and Lots of It. 10 of BNSFs GEs Lead a Shot Z Train East Toward Chicago as it passes through the Illinois Farmland on a chilly and windy Day in Mid March.

5 Big GEs Lead This Eastbound Intermodal on the Chilli Sub, as it passes through the rural Illinois Farm Land, and the tiny town of Edelstein.

A former Santa Fe warbonnet is panned at Jasper, VA, on the NS Appalachia District, with a westbound empty hopper train.

A Brand New ES44C4 Leads a Westbound Z Train Through Fort Madison Iowa. This train will make a crew change at the Amtrak Station and then head west toward Kansas City and Points West. The Train is... (more)

A recent swoosh repaint and an older H-1 geep add color on this chilly spring day.

Two new C4's lead this hot Z train toward Joliet UD

Yesterday afternoon it was sunny and 50 degrees. This morning a brisk wind is blowing and 12 inches if snow will fall before the day is done. I-40 will be reduced to one lane and 25 mph. On the Tr... (more)

A hot westbound passes the old ATSF freight depot and now restored BNSF Southwest Division office in Flagstaff, AZ

Loads from Hibbing Taconite scream down the BNSF Casco Sub passing under the former Missabe's long abandoned Coleraine line on their way to the BNSF's Allouez Taconite Facility near Superior, WI.

Snow banks make for a tighter than usual squeeze for cars as BNSF's Brainerd Local eases down 1st Avenue NE in its namesake on the way back from the Wausau Paper mill. This track is endangered as ... (more)

Mirror, mirror.. The still waters that precede the Roza dam on the Yakima river, provides this wonderful reflective vista. Click... (more)

The DPU on an all-rail ore train kicks up fresh powder as it rolls through Cloquet.

A pair of executive MACs lead a Superior-Laurel freight west through falling snow. Winter isn't quite finished yet.

BNSF's Brainerd Local arrives in its namesake from Superior and in the process passes by some of the buildings that made up the massive NP shop complex here. The newer building on the left is stil... (more)