My last shot of 2018 came a few weeks ago when the clouds slightly parted enough to give light to this SB intermodal.
Loaded BNSF coal train just left Livingston trying to make the climb. Once the coal train reached Livingston it had to add the more helpers from MRL to be able to climb the grade.
Led by three BNSF locomotives, Norfolk Southern intermodal train 214 cruises through Greensboro, NC on its way north on December 29, 2018. In the background, eastbound manifest train 350 gets a fr... (more)
Eastbound crosses the Wisconsin River along the Mississippi.
KCS eastbound LWY101 with a peach paint leader.
A BNSF grain train cruises along the calm waters of the Missouri River in Lombard Canyon. Within an hour this train will be slowed to a crawl as it climbs Winston Hill enroute to Helena.
Nice view of the Diesel Servicing facility in BNSF's Ex-Frisco Tennessee Yard including the turntable to nowhere!!
BNSF Masters Golf Tournament OCS travels over the Mississippi River as it heads up the Thayer South Sub. on its way back to Topeka.
BNSF power leads the 272 through Madison on a beautiful summer afternoon.
Firth Hill is down to one track due to a dispatching blunder which resulted in a bunch of crews dying. That made for this nice photo opportunity as a colorful grain train passes two of those tied ... (more)
The Transcon is loaded with grain trains this time of year. This one is westbound at Medill, Missouri.
Stopped into a one-horse town and saw just that. Welcome to the wild west!
Three General Electric locomotives lead northbound Norfolk Southern intermodal train 214 into downtown High Point, NC on December 10, 2018.
After waiting for a couple of hours for the tracks to clear, Norfolk Southern northbound intermodal train 214 cruises through Jamestown, NC on December 10, 2018,
Coal empties fly past a surviving CB&Q searchlight on BNSF's St. Joseph Subdivision.
Just below Tehachapi Loop, an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe piggyback train curves over the fifth crossing of Tehachapi Creek between Woodford and Walong, California, on March 8, 2001.
An eastbound BNSF intermodal train curves through Nelson, AZ on the BNSF Seligman sub.
The last of the days light isn't much, but a glinting unit tank train is just what is needed to create interesting light on the BNSF Seligman sub.
A long colorful westbound z-train stretches across the wide open spaces of Audley AZ located near Seligman, AZ on the BNSF Seligman sub.
With the last of the sun lighting up the Aubrey cliffs, a westbound z train led by a less typical transcon Ace leader speeds down the grade towards Pica, before climbing the steep grade up to Yamp... (more)
They were single tracking through Crozier canyon and trains were fleeting. Here you see a short HBARLUB1-29 climbing out of Cherokee headed towards Peach Springs, it snuck in on the tail of a few ... (more)
A late summer trip sort of limited our success on our list trip to the Pacific NW. But did create great sunrise and sunsets. Here a Westbound train crosses the famous bridge over Lake Pend Oreil... (more)
Southbound unit tank train passing over the north bridge.
A classic scene in the late 1990/early 2000s. From the overpass at Bellemont, a nice looking warbonnet leads an westbound train through the winter scenery.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s Denver to Stockton manifest freight pops out of Tunnel 18 just east of Crescent, Colorado, on the afternoon of May 23, 2001.
A couple of clean classics roll down the Seattle Sub with a local. There is even a caboose bringing up the rear.
BNSF 8435 pulls a coke train through the heavily industrialized area near the US Steel plant in Granite City, Illinois.
Old man look at my life, I'm a lot like you were. Although I'm not sure that this gentleman and I share much in common, one thing is for sure - Neil Young and fresh coffee were on my min... (more)
The setting sun casts an orange glow on the H-MEMGAL as it pulls out of the siding at Machens, Missouri.
