Out in the sunflower vastness of the Nebraska Sandhills, BN 5584 leads a set of DC power on an eastbound coal train through cow country west of Mullen.

The Great Northern influenced Heritage 1 colors looked pretty good on this westbound sailing through Maine, AZ. The classic Santa Fe station signs could once be found all along the system. Fuji Ve... (more)

Two SD60Ms and a couple SD40-2s are on the point of a westbound coal train coming over the summit of Bozeman Pass at West End, MT. Five MRL SD40 and 45s were shoving.

Westbound at Maine, AZ

Westbound in the big curve between Marmon and Laguna, BNSF 8247 in native colors leads two Heritage II GEs.

Santa Fe 650 leads an eastbound manifest out of Abo Canyon on the long grade to Mountainair. A second main track was added to this busy route a few years later but at this time the railroad was pu... (more)

Standing on the overpass in Winslow, Arizona on a late winter morning, BNSF 4974 comes rolling into town on the final mile of its lengthy crew district from Needles, CA. Out across the majestic sa... (more)

Brilliant in the late afternoon sun, a trio of Dash9s and an SD75M power a westbound up the grade towards the Continental Divide.

Struggling up the long grade from the Rio Grande valley at Belen to Mountainair, BNSF 505 East leads another one of the diverse power consists that proliferated at the time, including an F45. Fuji... (more)

Early morning finds the 4826 East sailing across the plains and blowing past the old division point of Vaughn, NM. The subdivision was largely single track with passing sidings yet and you better ... (more)

You never knew what you were going to get for a power consist in the years following the big mergers of the 90s. UP or C&NW leaders were the norm for UP trains between Ogden, Topeka and Chicago ac... (more)

An SD60I and SD60M lead a westbound out of the encroaching shadows of an autumn afternoon as the train unwinds from Scotch Run curve, a mile east of Horseshoe. Fuji Astia.

Much of the railroad scene has lost its appeal to me with the sameness or removal of signal systems, the prevalence of container boxes in lieu of rolling stock and the bloated merged systems that ... (more)

With dynamics howling, BN 7174 West drops down the long grade from Marias Pass to the Flathead River valley as it approaches one of the snow sheds along the route. Fuji Astia.

Resplendent in the morning sunshine, BNSF 4750 slips beneath the cantilever at Summit - the east end of two main tracks on Marias Pass - after the Essex helpers had cut off. Fuji Astia.