A recently arrived empty grain train, BNSF X-EAPBTL9-06A, has just begun loading its 116 cars. This process will take a while – reportedly about 10 hours. However, 14 of this train's covered h... (more)
A variety of power, including BNSF 7773 (ES44DC) wait in the engine servicing yard in Denver for assignments.
Loaded slab train L-CAL1911 runs lite to Pasha to pick up their slab cars, passing over the freshly-paved McFarland Lead.
There are some interesting sights to see in the BNSF engine servicing facility yard, including a row of red and white firefighting tank cars, an Executive Grinstein and a Ferromex ACe.
Just after sunset on another smoky day in the Western US, BNSF Railway train H-BARWAT1-12 (High Priority Merchandise, Barstow to Watson) is about to get overtaken by a higher priority westbound (t... (more)
Just after sunset on another smoky day in the Western US, BNSF Railway train H-BARWAT1-12 (High Priority Merchandise, Barstow to Watson) is about to get overtaken by another westbound (the S-LPKSC... (more)
The Still-Lack passes through a cut in Grand Terrace CA as it nears the end of its long run from St. Louis to Los Angeles.
The DPU's hold back on a westbound manifest freight as they go under the signals at Silverwood.
BNSF 7773 drags a heavy EB manifest up the Tehachapi pass just shy of the west portal of Tunnel 2 located at MP 337.8 on UP's Mojave Sub.
A loaded grain train passes by an isolated mailbox as it continues west along the busy, but yet also very lonely, ex-GN Hi-Line in North Dakota.
BNSF 7773 heads through The Slot and up Stevens Pass. Visible in the next, not RP-worthy shot, the engineer is out the window w/ his camera phone taking a picture of us railfans spread out on the... (more)
