One of my favorite places to spend a morning is on the upper Austin Loop on Mullan Pass. You can hear a train thundering out of Tobin for almost an hour before it reaches this spot. The massive ... (more)
Passing through a moonlike landscape a BNSF Z train has just departed the Needles CA crew change headed for AZ and points east.
This westbound coal load is screaming thru the deep cut at Iron Ridge. This location is at the top of the loops that drop the railroad to the valley floor at Austin, Mt.
The morning Portland, OR - Chicago Q train rolls along the Fallbridge Sub eastbound early in the morning on the summer solstice.
Several eastbound coal loads are ready to go in the south yard. These trains were in holding pattern due to the Ravenna subdivision being clogged with too much volume.
With it’s train in the background, four GE locomotives lead BNSF’s M-PVODEN (Provo, Utah to Denver manifest) downgrade around Big 10 Curve west of Rocky, Colorado, on October 20, 2012.
An eastbound stack train led by a nicely numbered GEVO waits in downtown Fargo for a fresh crew.
The day after our Mothers Day snowstorm up here in Monument CO a southbound BNSF manifest is descending Monument Hill through fresh snow
BNSF 7656 & 988 lead a westbound grain train.
A BNSF intermodal works hard as rounds the bend to crest Cajon Summit.
BNSF Railway ES44AC, a rare visitor west of Barstow, leads train Q-LACSTL1-27V (Guaranteed Service Intermodal; Los Angeles CA to St Louis MO) aorund the big curve at Summit - the top of southern C... (more)
