It don't look like this anymore! CNW 8541 is less than a year old as it grinds uphill towards Hwy 59 and Bill with a loaded coal train. I never thought this would be a 4 track mainline in years to... (more)

CP 119 in the lead. Based on scanner chatter, I could hear that both CP 119 and CN 327 were headed my way and I was not quite sure which would show up first.... Well CP 119 showed up first ... (more)

The thunderous roar emitted from a labored eastbound manifest reverberates through the Sierra Nevada as Union Pacific's Roseville, CA to North Platte, NE manifest contends with the western slope o... (more)

A eastbound empty BNSF grain train heads east along the Needles Sub with a CSX Tier4 second out.

This short UP stack train is moving west approaching Marceline.

Hot eastbound SP train descending Beaumont Pass at Garnet. In the distance can be seen a westbound climbing the pass with pushers ahead of the caboose.

BNSF 4237 leads 3 other brand new units on their first run west after being delivered.

A UP special runs around a Santa Fe freight through Hesperia. E9 960 will be retired in less then a year. Photo taken by Richard M. Panek

Why do the best things always show up after the sun disappears? – In the era just before Santa Fe’s unsuccessful merger with the SP, and before Superfleet, it was uncommon to encounter matched... (more)

Traffic is all backed up along the eastern end of Seligman Subdivision as a hot Z7 runs around a 12,000 foot long stack train and another Z train at the top of the sag at Darling.

As the sun begins to set on a winter day in northern Arizona, a Los Angeles to Chicago UPS train works hard up the grade out Kingman as it goes through the eastbound control signals of Walapai.

CN 529, with VIA 55 barely visible. KCS power is very rare in Montreal, and on Christmas eve I was lucky enough to shoot two leading a train, for the first time. Here CN 529 with two KCS en... (more)

With MRL's Helena Helper #3 tucked in mid-train, a loaded BNSF grain train from West Bowdle, SD to Kalama, WA begins its climb up Mullan Pass. They've just departed the double track at Tobin on th... (more)

After concurring over the 7,335 foot high summit of the Arizona Divide, a Long Beach, CA to Clovis, NM stack train slowly makes its way into Winslow Yard, where a fresh crew will take over for the... (more)

Two UP units and CP unit are working hard climbing the grade out of Kingman during a warm and windy May morning. It's nice to see a consist with any BNSF in it along the Transcon.