Snow-covered equipment sits in Metra's Aurora Yard waiting for its next call to go into Chicago.

Amtrak No. 6 passes the BNSF yard in Burlington, IA, as it heads for the crossing of the Upper Mississippi River into Illinois.

In a hard-blowing snow storm, an eastbound BNSF coal train roars across the Illinois plains near Cameron, with its next crew change at Galesburg.

The light of the setting sun glints off the side of a westbound BNSF hotshot as it drops down into Woodward, OK, The train is likely headed to the West Coast, and is not far behind another train. ... (more)

At dusk on a clear evening, five big GEs haul a heavy BNSF stack train eastward through Mooreland, OK. The train will soon hit the grade on the western slope of Curtis Hill.

A single GEVO pulls a westbound UP vehicle train at Forest Avenue in Dallas. The track closest to us at right is BNSF's "Waxie lead, which is its line to Teague and points south in Texas.

An eastbound BNSF stack train with three elephant-style GEs up front rolls off Curtis Hill, having just crested the ridge line we can see in shadow in the distance. The train is a couple miles wes... (more)

Late in the day when colors light up, a southbound loaded rock train rolls through Thackerville. The train has another ACE on the rear as DPU.

UP 8579 North, a trackage rights train bound for home rails in Wichita, KS, and thence to the Powder River Basin, heads into the siding at Gainesville. This siding, which also serves as the pass f... (more)

As a big 216 out of Jacksonville, FL, train comes slowly across the Cincinnati Southern Bridge, an empty grain departs the yard with three big units for power.

Just before sunset, UP 8159 West emerges from beneath the Dallas Convention Center and pass South Tower, which is part of the John F. Kennedy Memorial.

Four light engines have just come out of Fort Worth & Western's Hodge Yard--which used to be part of the Cotton Belt--and are waiting for a light from the dispatcher. In the foreground are the tra... (more)

EMDX GP38-2 No. 804 holds for instructions from the dispatcher to proceed with his BNSF Barstow Local. He'll cross the Crescent Bridge over the Mississippi and interchange traffic with Iowa Inters... (more)

At dusk on a summer evening in Galesburg, IL, BNSF's engine facility is filled with a fleet of locomotives.

An NS run-through vehicle rain drops down into the West Bottoms. Behind it, an eastbound UP coal train heads east.