The MRL crosses over Austin Creek on this steel trestle near Skyline on Mullan Pass. The trestle is 494 feet long, 94 feet high, and built in 1896 by the Northern Pacific. Here we have a loaded co... (more)
A manifest heads east through Howard Lake back in December, with a clean GEVO on the head end.
A late-running FEC 335 crosses Hillsboro Canal on the heels of 101 and a southbound Brightline train. This location marks the border between Deerfield Beach and Boca Raton, FL. The canal also s... (more)
MOW The hot 105 scoots around the hard working MOW crews keeping FEC's track in tip top shape.
The 202 rolls into the morning light
A Mulch Fire burns about a mile away as a monster 103 rolls through Bunnell. The 103 has been later on Tuesdays.
Snow still lingered in the San Gabriel mountains one year ago as BNSF 7195 lugs an eastbound stack train upgrade at Cajon. 3-8-22
In a wintery setting along Montana’s Clark Fork, a BNSF grain train heads west toward Spokane over Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision main line at Trout Creek on February 4, 2023.
Rolling at train speed, 60 mph (for passenger trains) is BNSF Railway Officer Special O-LACSBD8-06A. BNSF ET44C4 7939 can handle this 10-car train easily as it heads 62 miles from Los Angeles ... (more)
Much has been written over the years about the mystique of the Santa Fe and the boundless beauty of the Southwest in which the railroad built through to achieve the Pacific. Kingman Canyon testifi... (more)
An early morning hike pays early dividends with a train just minutes after the sun rises.
First of March finds 105 rolling through historic St. Augustine.
The view from the windows of our Airbnb accommodation at Trout Creek, Montana, allowed us to at least see and keep tabs of the passing BNSF trains on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision. From... (more)
An eastbound BNSF unit oil train crosses the icy inlet of Trout Creek into the Clark Fork over Bridge 55 at Trout Creek, Montana, on February 3, 2023.
105 wheels out of Bunnell with three express boxcars
