Grain loads claw their way up the steep hill at Mile 685 of BNSF's busy Needles Sub.

BNSF 8174 leads a heavy westbound loaded grain train up Ash Hill.

Grain loads from Brunswick, MO climb west on the Needles Sub east of East Ash Hill.

Westbound Z train approaches the diamonds at Joliet, IL

The first of two eastbound Norfolk Southern intermodal trains with the symbol 264 on this day passes through Decatur, Alabama approaching the Vine Street crossing. The tracks on the left belong t... (more)

Eastbound intermodal train led by UP 8174.

BNSF Train Z LACNYC9 03L hammers east on Main Track 2 under an endangered Santa Fe signal bridge at MP 344.3 of the BNSF Marceline Sub. Two consecutive bridges in the area make up half of the rem... (more)

On the first day of spring, K143 speeds westbound through the snow at Aberdeen.

A pair of fairly new BNSF GEs roll east along the Mohawk River.

A border of flowers frames two southbound SD60M's heading through Old Town on a sunny summer afternoon.

It's a consist that would seem less out of place three years ago. Two SD60Ms and a single SD40-2 pull hard out of Grand Forks with a long Noyes to Dilworth manifest.

Q MEMLAC4-29 With BNSF 8174, BNSF 4062, & BNSF 4990 with 68 Loads, 5767 Tons, 6367 Feet. Rare treat with a Green Machine on the point! Photographed at 09:43.