With the impressive backdrop of the Wagner Mills elevators in Schuyler, NE, a five-pack of brand new ACs leads Proviso-North Platte symbol QPRNP into the sundown.

NS 1046 leads an intermodal train west through Leetsdale a few minutes after the OCS had passed.

On a rather cloudy day, the sun breaks through the clouds just as UP 1995 comes flying around the corner and passes under the CNW signal bridge that is due to fall soon. We have the CNW heritage u... (more)

A nice set of Santa Fe power heads south from Kingman, catching the last rays of sunlight from a beautiful day in May of 1994.

Westbound intermodal ISCLB has almost finished its climb from the floor of the Escalante Desert as it negotiates the S-curve and approaches the summit at Crestline. Before they can make the 110 mi... (more)

Late in the afternoon on Tehachapi BNSF's M MODBAR1 24A enters tunnel number two. The first cut of boxcars is all wine loads from Modesto for Barstow. Due to the ongoing and devastating drought, t... (more)

Climbing out of the Mojave sink, a northbound UP doublestack train begins the assault on the grade toward Tehachapi summit in the early evening.

They'll never look this good every again.. Three brand new C4's on there first trip West.

Numbers 8393,8391,8392 and 8395 in harness with an eastbound train. Never seen consecutive numbers before.

Now reclassified by BNSF as an SD70MACe, this former Grinstein SD70MAC is looking brand new again as it leads a westbound grain train into the Barstow terminal where it will hold for a few days be... (more)

Hot eastbound intermodal.

On the BNSF Railway's Transcon across the southwest, intermodal trains run as frequently as streetcars! Passing under the cantilever signals in Holbrook, Arizona, is "hot" train Q-LACAL... (more)

A northbound intermodal descends under dynamics into Caliente. A four-pack of GE's in pachyderm style control the descent.

A southbound intermodal with a quartet of GE pachyderms heads into Allard's curve as it makes the climb towards the summit at Techachapi. This shot was inspired by Steve Schmollinger's classic sho... (more)

A 70ACe and two SD70M's lead a northbound Z train across Dry Canyon Viaduct, located just north of Hotlum siding. This rugged stretch of mountain railroad through the lava beds below Mount Shasta ... (more)