A ballast train works on laying the last section of ballast on the new Truxton Flyover on Oct. 25, 2020. After 10 months of construction, the Truxton Flyover is designed to create an easier traffi... (more)

A pair of GE motors pull a Chicago, IL to San Bernardino, CA stack train races west across northern Arizona as the tracks will cross Route 66 at Crookton.

APA 81 pulls 43 cars north towards Holbrook, Ariz. to interchange with the BNSF Railway, Tuesday Dec. 20, 2016. With exhaust smoke pouring out of the two Apache units as climb over one of humps le... (more)

The Fast and the Slow On the left, UP 6866 and another UP unit are the DPUs of an empty coal train, bound for Black Thunder Mines, flies down Logan Hill at track Speed. On the right, a load... (more)

Four BNSF GE's tackle the grade of Kingman Canyon on a New Year's Eve even though the scenic desert landscape makes it seem like a hot July morning in the northern Arizona desert.

Arizona's monsoon season are like no other. From June to October, rain, rainbows, and thunder happen nearly daily. July 17, 2017 was no exception. Here, the sounds of four GE locomotives pulling a... (more)

UP 1989 rounds the curve as it heads for Truckee.

Westbound traffic is backed up along the eastern slope of Arizona Divide as an eastbound stack train passes two parked trains.

A SD70ACe pulls a Black Thunder Mountain load bucket as another eastbound bucket over takes the ACes. Both train slowly make there way as they run at notch 8.

Help is on the way! The helper set races along the Powder River Basin as they head for the Black Thunder mines to help out a loaded coal train that doesn't have enough power to leave the P... (more)

On what it may be their madden run, two of the three brand new ES44C4s can be seen racing out of lower Truxton Canyon on the head end of the hot North Bay Z8 on a gloomy February afternoon.

Thank you BNSF!... People have shot this same Chicago to Stockton stack train since it left out of the yard on the 29th and the power was three Ferromex units only. I kept an eye on the tra... (more)

A ten engine power move makes its way across the Arizona Divide on a warm spring evening. These units are heading to Barstow to be put back in service. Nearly all of the engines are Dash-9s in BNS... (more)

A rare BNSF, UP, CN consist is on a Stokton, CA to Willow Springs, IL intermodel train charges out of Tunnel 5 at Cliff as the Canadian National SD70M-2 puffs out a lot of smoke.

What Luck! As I hear the horn of a westbound S LPCLBJ stack approaching, I focus my attention to an eastbound stack train. After it passes by me, I realize I wont be able to shoot the west... (more)