The rear helper units on a heavy Port of Los Angeles stack train slowly grind up the steep 1.4 % grade towards Yampai Summit as they enter Crozier Canyon. The sound of General Electric Evolution S... (more)

Making its way west through the scenic Rainbow Canyon, UP 8788 hauls a heavy Global 1, IL to Los Angeles, CA intermodal train near Caliente, NV. After a morning of a rain and snow, blue skies came... (more)

Nevada Northern's 2-8-0 steam locomotive #90 hustles west out of Ely with a work train; which includes Nevada Northern's steam wrecking crane. This was taken during the annual Nevada Northern wint... (more)

The sound of Nevada Northern's 4-6-0 steam locomotive #40 charging up the grade echos through out the valley on a cold February evening. With freight and passenger cars in tow, NN 40 shows her mus... (more)

After some brief monsoonal rains, a rainbow appears over the Truxton area as a Stockton, CA to Chicago, IL stack train works up the grade towards Yampai Hill. From there, the crew will work up ano... (more)

The sounds of dynamic breaks echo through the Feather River Canyon as a Pasco, WA to Bakersfield, CA high priority manifest emerges out of the first tunnel at Honeymoon.

The Federal Railroad Administration had their two geometry cars running over the Seligman Subdivision today. They were picked up this morning in Williams from the Grand Canyon Railway; who had the... (more)

Running about two and half hours late, Amtrak's Southwest Chief, eastbound service to Chicago, emerges from the long shadows near Maine, AZ on the third day of October. A BNSF Dash-9 was added to ... (more)

The end of summer is near, according to the calendar, but the if you were to be trackside near Seligman, it would feel like summer will never end. The morning sun begins to bring the mercury up to... (more)

Over 16,000 tons of corn products, bound for Swanson, CA, moves west across the Arizona desert along the BNSF Seligman Subdivision. These grain train that run along this section of the Transcon us... (more)

As the sun begins to rise over the plateaus surrounding lower Truxton Canyon, the tranquil sound of a quiet morning disappear. The echoing sound of metal on metal contact fills the air as the head... (more)

The evening sun sets behind the San Francisco Peaks along the eastern slope of the Arizona Divide as a Tennessee-bound stack, led by a BNSF ES44C4 locomotive, races out of the sag at Darling. This... (more)

One of BNSF's new SD70MACe (rebuilt SD70MAC with the new ACe computer systems installed) leads a 116 car loaded grain train through Kingman Canyon on its journey west towards California's Central ... (more)

The early morning light greats four of BNSF's finest GEVO locomotives as the grind the grade towards Crozier Canyon with a hot Z6 for Willow Springs, IL in tow.

With a storm hovering over the southern rim of the Grand Canyon; the William Flyer highballs south back to Williams with the iconic 2-8-2 steam locomotive #4960 on the point. From February to Sept... (more)