"Family Portrait"- A husband takes a photo of his wife and daughter by Amtrak locomotive #67 during train #4's long station stop in La Junta,CO at dusk on 4/4/08.

The UP E units lead a passenger special from Eagle Pass,TX to Phoenix,AZ westbound at Akela,NM 3/25/12. High clouds would overtake the area 5 minutes after the train passed.

CVR's interchange train to the BNSF waits just east of the interchange at Boise City,OK on 3/13/08. What was a full rainbow is now almost gone. This view is to show the edge of the thunderstorm an... (more)

SW 2601 leads 2 other blue geeps over some rough track while making a pickup at Julian,KS on CVR's Manter Sub 4/4/08. The weather forecast was for sunny skies, but some clouds from storms the prev... (more)

CVR's interchange train to the BNSF waits just east of the interchange at Boise City,OK on 3/13/08. A rainbow has formed, as the sun has just cleared the clouds from a passing thunderstorm. It was... (more)

6 Alcos in uniform throttle up to assault the next grade with the Blue Looper coal train in tow on 5/5/11. The train is at the windmill farm, which is at MP 26, and will top out at MP 30 before de... (more)

The Blue Looper coal train, with 6 alcos in uniform and 60 loaded coal hoppers, are climbing the grade out of Holbrook with all of their might at MP 5 5/5/11.

A westbound BNSF Z train has just passed through Siberia,CA, and is now wrapped around the big curve on main 1 to continue the climb up to Ash Hill at Klondike,CA 3/6/11

BNSF 7699 has a clear signal to proceed east at West Daggett just after sunrise on 3/5/11.

BNSF 7200 east starts its assault of Ash Hill shortly after departing Ludlow,CA 3/5/11

So close! 2 minutes earlier and I would have had an over under at Vaughn,NM. Here is the "parting gift" I got instead, a BNSF Z train heads west as the lone DP shoves on a westbound UP stack train... (more)

CSXT 7785 leads a Laurel,MT to Northtown,MN manifest through the North Dakota Badlands at Sully Springs,ND 8/6/05.

A southbound BNSF coal load passes by the now replaced searchlights at the control point of Bragdon on the BNSF Pikes Peak Sub, just north of Pueblo,CO 1/8/08.

Mt. Taylor still has a little bit of snow left on its top as Amtrak #4 passes Suwanee,NM on this unseasonably warm March morning 3/15/12.

Naturally, after the sun sets, the trains will roll! This was the case this evening as the BNSF 7494 east is about to cross New Mexico Hwy 47 at Beevers,NM on 3/15/12. Mt. Taylor, which is near wh... (more)