An eastbound domestic intermodal is about to duck under the old route 66 highway overpass at Correo, just after meeting a westbound counterpart. Mount Taylor and the red cliffs at Marmon can be se... (more)

An early-morning eastbound intermodal has crossed Marias Pass and has almost reached the prairies as it swings around the big curve just west of Browning. The mountains of Glacier National Park a... (more)

The long climb up the western slope of Marias Pass is nearly over and the summit is almost in sight as this eastbound intermodal works around the big curve at milepost 1152. Although it is late J... (more)

The sun has almost reached the western horizon as an eastbound intermodal approaches Goffs, California, on its trip across the Mojave Desert. The train is still working upgrade but will soon top ... (more)

A southbound manifest on the Oregon Trunk has followed the Deschutes River Canyon for 80 miles from the Columbia River to South Junction and has now turned up the 1.5% grade of Trout Creek Canyon ... (more)

An eastbound BNSF trackage rights train on the former DRG&W splits the signals at the west end of Grassy siding in the heart of the Utah desert. The Book Cliffs stand tall in the background.

Deep in the Deschutes River canyon, a northbound Oregon Trunk manifest is at an iconic photo location, Twin Bridges, a few miles north of Sherars Bridge. Two bridges are spliced by a tunnel as th... (more)

Just cresting the 13 mile 1.3% grade out of Bend, this southbound Oregon Trunk manifest is about to clear the lava field at the Newberry National Volcanic Monument. There have been no eruptions h... (more)

A long westbound Z-train fills almost all of the big S-curve west of West Eagle Nest on the BNSF's Crookton Cutoff.

Shortly before sunset, an eastbound BNSF trackage rights train is in the rugged terrain just east of Thompson on the former DRG&W.

The rays of the rising sun have just reached the BNSF's rails in the Mojave Desert as an eastbound stack train clears Fenner and will soon be cresting the summit at Goffs.

Running along the Columbia River on a beautiful May morning, a hot eastbound BNSF Z-train has just met a westbound grain train at Towal. The intermodal has already traveled through the most spect... (more)

In the heart of the Mojave Desert on a clear February afternoon a westbound TOFC train is approaching East Siberia, part way up the long pull to the summit at Ash Hill.

In a few minutes this westbound coal train will cross from New Mexico into Arizona. Power is three units on the head end and four DPUs.

Westbound through the Columbia Gorge, a hot BNSF Z-train is approaching Home Valley. Around the curve, the rear of the train is still passing the site of the Collins Slide, a particularly unstabl... (more)