A pair of local cattle don't even bat an eyelash as BNSF No. 4033 storms by leading a H-PASGAL manifest freight through Thompson Falls, Mont. on Montana Rail Link's 4th Subdivision. In the ... (more)

Pulling up the grade from Bucoda in the evening sunlight.

The Stockton, CA to Willow Springs, IL "Z" train thunders through Sandcut in perhaps the final sunset shot I will capture with the aging cantilever signal as the centerpiece.

On Wednesday, April 24, we see the weekly Denver, CO to Tacoma, WA Stack Train begin to slow at Longs Peak where they'll hold the main and meet the southbound Longmont Switch.

Gas Train

A ghost of the past. A BNSF Warbonnet leads an earth worm out of La Plata, westward for Kansas City and beyond.

A westbound BNSF grain train crosses Lake Pend Oreille, on January 28, 2013. The head end of the train is officially in Algoma, Idaho, while the DPU's have just left Sandpoint which is on the othe... (more)

BNSF 4993 on the head end of a manifest, Southbound at Avon, with two retired BNSF (now GMTX) SW1500's.

Westbound in scenic Wind River Canyon, a BNSF freight is at mile 321.3 east of Dornick, Wyoming, on May 25, 2011. Powering the train is GE C44-9W No. 4706 and UP EMD SD70M No. 4274, with five Boei... (more)

A busy afternoon at BNSF's Galesburg engine service, hostlers move CSX 7679 and a BNSF Dash-9 to the fuel pad, with the busy Galesburg yard in the background.

A westbound Z train heads downgrade at the Trinidad Loop. BNSF 1101 was involved in a wreck in Arizona in October, 2000, and was nearly totaled. When BNSF repainted it in 2002, it was repainted in... (more)

BNSF 992 soaks up the remaining rays of the day on the team track.

A trio of NS power leads oil loads east on the BNSF past the Dairyland Power Cooperative in Alma, WI. The near constant parade of oil trains on this line is quite remarkable.

An eastbound BNSF stack train approaches Trout Creek, Montana, on May 22, 2011. Low clouds still hang over the mountains to the west, as three GE C44-9Ws rumble along the Clark Fork.

Curving along aptly named Tunnel Lake left of Highway 14 a BNSF general merchandise freight is looking good on the North Bank Road of the former Spokane Portland And Seattle Railway hustling westw... (more)