Approaching Curtis Hill from the east.

A westbound BNSF pig train flies up Curtis Hill behind four big GEs racing to the next crew change at Amarillo, TX.

Brand. Spanking. New.

Heading under the bridge just west of Quinlan, over Curtis Hill.

A hot westbound is motoring up Curtis Hill on a nice sunny afternoon.

A birthday weekend trip with my dad to a new spot (for me) turned up these four sparkling gems: ET44C4s 3894/3892/3883/3885, which appear by their shiny shoes to be on their maiden voyage.

A set of 4 brand new ET44C4 units is westbound on Curtis Hill in the late afternoon.

Stack trains meet at Quinlan, with the westbound closest to us.

Late on a winter afternoon, a heavy westbound manifest trudges up the eastern slope of Curtis Hill behind three ACs.

At dusk, an eastbound stack train descends Curtis Hill with two new GE C4s in the lead. Plentiful rains have turned this part of Oklahoma into a Garden of Eden.

BNSF 8262 East meets a westbound stack train at Quinlan on the eastern slope of Curtis Hill.

An empty ethanol train heads toward Amarillo on BNSF's ex-Santa Fe Transcon as it inches up Curtis Hill. This train was being run-around by two higher priority westbounds allowing for the rare op... (more)

BNSF's local toward Amarillo continues to pull the Curtis Hill grade with an appropriate assortment of standard cab EMD locomotives. Of all the trains we saw this day on the Transcon, this was th... (more)

The airconditioning unit was getting a good workout on this day -- the temperature was well over 100 (F). Is the soil really that red ... or is it the earth glowing?