The always impressive Glacier Park backdrop of many moods is embellished with the passage of an eastbound manifest crossing the Two Medicine trestle near East Glacier, MT.

A pair of BNSFs ubiquitous Dash 9s round the corner at a spot known as Windy Point between snow sheds 7 and 6 on the west slope of Marias pass.

Cresting the grade at Summit, BNSF Dash 9-44CW 5072 and ES44DC 7275 begin their decent downhill toward Hesperia and points east, although Distributed Power Units ES44C4 8184 and Dash 9-44CW 4016 a... (more)

BNSF 5072 (Dash9) joins two Dash9 Warbonnets in the BNSF engine servicing yard in Denver, Colorado.

Snow covers the upper elevations of the mountains surrounding Cajon Pass. Eastbound BNSF No. 5072 pulls a JB Hunt Stack Train up through Lugo after clearing Cajon Pass.

My first trip out to the Needles end of the BNSF Needles sub features the mountains around Essex CA.

BNSF 5072 and mate roll a westbound manifest towards Spokane, WA on the Montana Rail Link just west of Trout Creek, MT. It's a beautiful fall afternoon as shadows start to creep across the pond.

A little dusting of snow at Cajon Summit. One of my last shots of the year.

BNSF 5072 heads up the S LHGLPC1-30 as it heads east through Alray in a light dusting of snow.

One of BNSF Railway's endless parade of double-stack trains, in this case the S-LHGLPC1-30A, crests the Summit of Cajon Pass on a snowy New Year's Eve 2014 morning. Power for this train is Dash ... (more)

Early morning light finds this eastbound making good time towards Barstow. The long shadows this time of year make for some great photography in the lower narrows.

Due to MoW work on Main 2 into the yard, this manifest had to run onto the Devil's Lake Sub and then back into the yard.