A hot shot stack train flies through Downers Grove on a nice pleasant early fall afternoon.

Faux Bonnet At Doodletown Bight. CSX B118-08 was a robust 12,000+ feet of empty ethanol cars and DPUs as it crossed Doodletown Bight from Iona Island to Bear Mountain, New York on the eveni... (more)

BNSF 6176 & 9298 power an eastbound loaded coal train.

A fast moving Northbound QCHISTO approaches the Cameron Rd crossing as it races towards Tehachapi Summit.

BNSF's KBAKBAK helpers are on the rear of a loaded grain train that has just entered UP rails at Mojave. Helpers will cut off at Cameron and return to Edwards for the next assignment.

The hot Willow Springs, IL to North Bay, CA races west into Kingman, AZ at nearly 70 MPH as it climbs the slight grade out of Walapai.

BNSF #5886 leads QPSPVJ 18 (aka BNSF H-DENPVO118) across the former Rio Grande on trackage right in the shadow of the Book Cliffs near Thompson Springs, Utah.

An ES44AC locomotive leads the Z-WSPLAC7 through Valentine as it hauls this critical peak season train. Coal pool locomotives, like this ES44AC, have been able to sneak out of the coal fields and ... (more)

An Eastbound Stack train eases into Dalles Port to cross Amtrak's Empire Builder

BNSF 5873 (ES44AC) leads a string of auto racks through Commerce City, Colorado on its way to Denver on the Brush Sub.

The Santa Fe Super Chief is seen at Albuquerque New Mexico in 1943. Note the wartime headlight visor on the EMC E6. Jack Delano photo, from the Library of Congress collection and my collection.

A morning Southbound empty phosphate train (Cicero, IL (BNSF) to Mulberry, FL) passes a Northbound manifest under the Mother of God Catholic Church steeples and spires.

MARYHILL WA May 4 2008 — BNSF C44-9W 4972 rolls east with a mixed freight. My photo.

The hot Stockton, CA to Willow Springs, IL Z-train waste no time making track speed up the more than 2% grade of Tehachapi Pass as it snakes through the curves of Allard. This train had to stopped... (more)

The PHL 1400 BNSF Dock Job switches an inbound stack train at the Pacific Container Terminal in the Port of Long Beach as many ships await their turn in the Harbor in the background.