Part of the way up Goffs Hill, in the Mojave Desert between Bannock and Homer, a westbound stacker is meeting an eastbound TOFC.

Four wide bodies have dropped off a freight in the Denver Yard and head to the servicing facility for sand and fuel.

An Eastbound stack train meets the morning light as it accelerates out of the siding.

After holding in the siding at Valentine for the Z LACCHI7 (UPS train for Chicago), an auto train bound for El Paso, TX begins the charge through Crozier Canyon on a late winter evening.

BNSF 8271, 6920, 7953, & 7956 lead an eastbound stack train running wrong main.

Dedicated to my wife and RP contributor Maryann Pickering, who tripped over a cactus attempting to get a shot of this train. Two hours later she was patched up and out again.

The mercury continues to drop below 0*F, as a long and heavy Williston to Northtown manifest works towards Dilworth, away from the setting sun.

A high speed stack train runs through the desert toward Kingman.

All orange tonight on coal empties from the Twin Cities. SD70ACe 9335 is the second unit out on this train.

A trio of SD75Ms take an empty coal train west under one of the many classic CBQ signal bridges that can be found on the Mendota Sub.

A trio of SD75M's lead a westbound coal train through Western Springs. Unfortunately the leader wasnt in warbonnet, but at least it was clean H2 and not H3!

Road power from a westbound coal train heads back east to the fuel pad in Missoula.

Three SD75s stopped just shy of Emerado with re-routed Clay Boswell coal. One of these units was going to go to a stalled M-SUPMIN near Arvilla.

BNSF 8271 comes to a stop just east of Emerado. This crew is going to cut power and go help M-SUPMIN just up the tracks a ways who stalled on the little hill entering Arvilla.

A trio of EMD SD75 power hustles re-routed coal empties west on the Devil's Lake Sub in frigid 1°F temperatures (non-wind chill)!