Just after cresting the summit in Mountainair, a BNSF train descends toward the Rio Grande Valley.
A BNSF grain shuttle on the loop track at Doyon ND. This former GNRR station was founded in 1883 and named for Charles Doyon, a local bonanza farmer from VT.
A run-through intermodal bound for Los Angeles, CA heads towards interchange with the BNSF at Memphis, TN.
BNSF 7897 leads an eastbound grain train across MRL's 2nd Subdivision near Greycliff, MT. This train will have the main for quite a while before it gets to Laurel to meet an empty coal train.
During an ongoing construction project to replace old bridge supports, a colorful eastbound stack rumbles across the Sandpoint Bridge, as viewed from Dog Beach on a late summer afternoon.
A westbound BNSF Z train rounds the curve on Track 3 on Cajon Pass.
A westbound "Not so baretable" passes the memorials of the railroaders who parished at this very spot from a runaway train many years ago on the south track of Cajon Pass.
BNSF 7897 rolls into Bakersfield.
The crossing gates at Division Street drop as the headlights illuminate the signals at the west end of the CP at Verona.
The crossing gates at Division Street go up back up as an eastbound rolls under the classic Santa Fe cantilever signals. The flashing EOT leaves its trail, all under a beautiful starfilled sky.
Finally some snow!
Leading MRL SD40-2 # 261
BNSF stack passing UP stack
BNSF 7897 is taking the signal on the Great Falls Branch. Shelby is a junction with lines from four directions, E., W., N. & S.
BNSF 7897 works in Shelby yard with an excessive amount of power.
