Only one unit on the headend?? Well I caught this train up at Marcel and thought it was pretty interesting, with one unit on the headend and one on the rear. The train was 4,576 feet long, so I wa... (more)

Moments after the sun rose above the mountains, a westbound BNSF z-train glows as it climbs Ash Hill headed towards Barstow.

Flanger heading west as the sun breaks through the clouds slightly

Ah the snow is falling, its midnight......what else would I do?

A follow up to the earlier photo I posted from Winslow. Here the train is a little closer, headlights turned off for the approaching westbound and another eastbound far off in the distance. Its be... (more)

A pose by the Colfax helpers while cutting out near the summit

Crew members assigned to flanger duty work diligently with several tools, including a flare to dig out/clear the switch at the west end of Truckee

A dirty lead locomotive leads a westbound manifest back to double track at Switch 9

Special headed east on track 1. It came into Tucson on the 27th

Heavy snow in low clouds engulf the summit as the flanger plows through Soda Springs

LAST DAYS IN ARIZONA; As my days living in Tucson are very limited, I decided to head out to Cienega Creek one more time. I remember when I first go to Tucson I was enamored by the place, and spen... (more)

I ran across one of the crossing gates at Lee Hall with a back cover to its control box hanging. I called CSX to let them know and then snapped a few shots. As an electrician I found the inner wo... (more)

A westbound UP train with NS power heads towards Tucson with a fierce thunderstorm in the sky behind it

The San Francisco peaks highlight the photo as BNSF 739 leads a westbound z-train towards Williams, AZ and beyond.

Westbound at Yuba Pass