A PHL BNSF dock job shoves into Long Beach, passing through Pier B Yard with a Santa Fe warbonnet Dash 9 and a 25th Anniversary BNSF sticker unit ES44AC as the power.

Southbound unit tank train passing over the north bridge.

A short, but hot, North Bay Z train races out of Winslow, AZ with a fresh crew that is prepared to for an all night trip across the Seligman Subdivision to Needles, CA.

BNSF's Stockton, CA to Chicago, IL Q-train is seen here hammering up the 1.9% grade coming out of Caliente in some beautiful storm lighting.

Corwith Yard, IL to Stockton, CA stacks cruise westbound across BNSF's Chillicothe Subdivision in the golden late evening light. Quite the consist was on this train tonight and it included an NS E... (more)

Western visitors continue to draw local duty around the Asheville, NC area. NS P-87 returns from Bridgewater, NC with BNSF #6708 leading the way.

P87 passes through downtown Swannanoa and the abandoned siding tracks for the former Beacon Plant that burned down in the early 2000's.

For a second straight day, folks on the S-Line were greeted with western power on the local job. Here, P87 emerges from the 260 foot Burgin Tunnel in the Old Fort Loops.

Train P87 is ready to begin its accent of the Old Fort Loops as it passes through downtown Old Fort. Two western visitors are doing the honors this afternoon.

The Asheville, NC to Bridgewater, NC turn job is sporting some western flair on this chilly January afternoon. P87 passes the 120 MP (and through Jarrett's Tunnel) in route to Asheville, NC.

BNSF 6708 on the point of a loaded grain train traversing Fish Creek on MRL's 4th Sub near Rivulet, MT. It's only a 100 yard (or so) hike down the hill off an old dirt road in the middle of nowher... (more)

A 6700 series C4 leads a hot Stockton, CA to Willow Springs, IL Z7 up to the summit of the Seligman sub as it makes track speed pass an old water tower.

An eastbound BNSF intermodal train passes through downtown East Dubuque.

The eastbound vehicle train is dropping down into the Edwards River Valley on its way to Galesburg before reaching the greater Chicagoland area.