A Barstow to Tulsa manifest train leaves the Needles area as spring rain shower forms over the Mohave Valley area; seen from Park Moabi. With the division point changing to the state line, is sect... (more)

An extremely late Los Angeles, CA to Willow Springs, IL Z-train races into Winslow for a crew change with the San Francisco mountain range in the background. This train is running 37 hours behind ... (more)

A pair of Canadian Pacific locomotives lead a Sweet Grass, MT to Oakdale, CA unit grain train through Valentine on a windy, March afternoon.

BNSF 6163, one of BNSF's 25th anniversary locomotives, leads a Chicago, IL to Stockton, CA intermodal train through Valentine, Ariz. as it races up to track speed of 70 MPH.

Highball the Roll-by... Dusk has settled in and the temperature drops at the summit of Goffs Hill; located in the eastern Mojave Desert. Here, a Chicago, IL to Los Angeles, CA intermodal tr... (more)

The absolute last rays of sunlight illuminate the nose of the BNSF 5629 as it races down the Arizona Divide with a heavy Barstow-bound manifest.

Racing down Ash Hill at nearly 70 MPH are three GE motors with a San Diego, CA to Clovis, NM vehicle train as they approach Amboy. As the sun sets; it was 110 degrees on this summer evening.

A GE and EMD consist hustles an empty coal train out of Trinidad and through the horseshoe curve of Ludlow.

A "mega empty" coal train negotiates over the hog backs of Lynn as it heads north out of Trinidad with a fresh crew. These "mega empty' trains are two empty coal trains that are put... (more)

A Belen, NM to Denver, CO manifest train is tied down in the siding of Lynn, CO, along BNSF's Spanish Peaks Subdivision, as a summer thunder storm rages in the background. In 2019, the North/ Sout... (more)

With only a couple of miles left till the summit of Ash Hill, four GE motors hustle a long pool Z-train up the steep grade as the crew races towards the final destination of San Bernardino, CA.

Westbound traffic is starting to back up along the Needles Sub, near Cadiz, as a Chicago, IL to Stockton, CA intermodal train catches yellow signals due to slower trains climbing Bolo and Ash Hill... (more)

Yesterday's Phoenix, AZ to Belen, NM manifest train sits in the siding of Ash Fork waiting for a fresh crew to get rested from the Williams hotel to take the train to Winslow. This is the first da... (more)

After meeting a hotshot Z-train at the siding of Abra, BNSF 4588 starts to pull eastward with an empty ethanol train.

As the sun sets along the BNSF's Needles Sub, located in the eastern Mojave Desert, a hotshot Z-train charges up the one percent grade of Goffs Hill.