Climbing up the first couple hundred of feet out of Cheyenne, the tracks bend north briefly to duck under I-80 before bending west into the setting sun.
Just after departing Argentine Yard, a Westbound BNSF manifest freight starts its journey across the Emporia Subdivision. The train is at Morris and is about to cross Douglas Ave.
Four GE motors hustle a Los Angeles, CA to Alliance, TX Z-Train up the 2% grade of Cajon Pass as it approaches Hill 582.
Almost feels like UP is trying out a new paint job here. Instead of Grey and Yellow, It's Brown and Yellow with gray trucks. Reminds me of the short lived Utah Southern with their SD40's painted B... (more)
Pulling the long grade up the Arizona Divide, ATSF 530 leads an eastbound through Crookton, AZ. Ektachrome.
BNSF 3805, 3794, 4397, & 5384 lead westbound stacks over the continental divide.
Union Pacific 5807 looking a little rough. Hope fully it will make it's way to Wabtec for a rebuild and some fresh paint. It does appear to have got new trucks. They aren't messing around with thi... (more)
Extra intermodal in small town Texas.
BNSF 7174, 7452, & 7096 lift eastbound stacks out of Abo canyon.
UP 7328, 7194, 5643, & 2680 with an eastbound intermodal train.
BNSF Z intermodal speeds along the Stockton Sub at Escalon Ca
GE ET44C4 3790 leads the morning Z eastbound through Denair Ca
BNSF Railway "High Priority" freight train H-BARWAT1-31A passes the railroad's Hobart Yard ("Los Angeles" on the railway, adn these days all intermodal traffic) as it heads dow... (more)
Chicago to Alliance SB Z train passing shiny freshly painted locomotives at the Wabtec interchange track.
BNSF 7105 (ES44C4) leads the priority Z Train into a cut just east of Akron, Colorado on the Brush Sub.