BNSF's Renton Rocket clokes the Rabanco switch job with blue smoke as he accelerates out of Seattle, seen here at the Spokane Street control point on December 26, 2012.

The conductor on this westbound coal empty shades his eyes, looking ahead at the signal, which is difficult to see due to low sun angle, at Fryburg,ND on 7/20/11.

I wanted to try a different view of a train over the bridge in Kingman Canyon that still is lettered for Santa Fe. Seeing a crack in the rocks, I layed down and used the rocks as a frame. Here is ... (more)

On a beautiful summer morning, Amtrak train 513 glides along the Puget Sound, just a mere minute before its next station stop of Edmonds,WA on July 9, 2011.

Amtrak's Southwest Chief heads east with the red cliffs of Western New Mexico in the background near Prewitt,NM on December 18, 2011. The next day, and exactly 1 year to the day that this was post... (more)

Western Fuels train to Lee Ranch Mine heads across the fill just west of Lee Ranch Jct in the early morning of April 11, 2012.

A westbound UP manifest passes over the famed Cienega Creek bridge as the cacti in the foreground bath in the late fall desert sun on November 23, 2012.

An empty cement train from Northern CA headed for Oro Grande,CA is about to enter the BNSF at Daggett,CA on February 24, 2012. An Ex-SP AC4400CW is doing the honors leading today.

A UP eastbound empty ballast train takes the sweeping curve, about cross the Deschutes River,at MP 99 west of Biggs,OR on October 24, 2012.

On a hot summer afternoon, this 50 car DMVW corn train and its 3 SD45's pull out of the siding of Pierce after meeting a eastbound BNSF coal load on July 30, 2012.

The warm summer sun is starting to fade as this trio of ex-Wisconsin Central now DMVW SD45's bring the corn train around the corner past some hay bales, just west of Wilton,ND on July 30, 2012.

DMVW shopworker and fellow railfan Ed Duke fills the rear sanders of former Wisconsin Central now DMVW SD45 #7505 at DMVW's Bismarck Shop on August 6, 2012. Ed is also the owner/operator of a live... (more)

I plead guilty! A pair of BNSF GE's lead an empty garbage train past the scenery at Maryhill,WA on October 25, 2012. Rumor has it that Railpictures.net contributor Indecline is the "Mayor" of this... (more)

3 BNSF SD70ACe's elephant style power a westbound coal empty through the North Dakota Badlands, seen here at Sully Springs,ND on July 31, 2012.

3 Blue and Yellow GP's power a small local from Flagstaff into Winslow, seen here at West Winslow on May 13, 2012.