A coal train bound for the Laramie Basic Electric Station crawls out of the Wendover River Valley south of Wendover on the BNSF Front Range Sub. The train will use the Front Range Sub for 20 miles... (more)

What looks like a St. Paul hotshot, races south along the Mississippi River at Lock and Dam #9 south of Lynxville. You can tell the BNSF merger and the SD70MAc's are on the property, because a guy... (more)

A BNSF Yard Job is seen here working East Thomas Yard in East Thomas, AL. (Birmingham) with BNSF GP38-2 #2098 leading, still in the Burlington Northern (BN) cascade green paint scheme followed by ... (more)

Coal trains along the Aurora Sub have been few and far between over the years. Reroutes and detours have been about it, and the occasional Burns Harbor train from Canada. Coal isn't something that... (more)

An westbound BNSF train is stopped at East Portal waiting for their turn to go thru the Moffat Tunnel. The tunnel has to vented after each train to clear out the exhausted since the tunnel is so l... (more)

A loaded grain train snakes around the bluffs along the Mississippi river south of Lynxville. The train is currently about 50 miles south of LaCrosse.

An empty coal train has just left Creston with a fresh crew on board for the trip to Lincoln. The train getting up to speed as they make their way thru the hilly southern Iowa countryside. This is... (more)

A loaded coal train works upgrade towards Fairfield at sunrise. The train is currently working between Ottumwa and Burlington in Southern Iowa. This is the coal route out of Lincoln towards Galesb... (more)

An empty coal train rolls west towards Lincoln on southern Iowa coal route. The train is currently working between Burlington and Ottumwa as the dip thru the sag west of Lockridge.

East end of Ashby has an eastbound freight waiting on this empty coal train to clear. The Sand Hills Sub in mainly double track, but there are sections of single track too. This section of the San... (more)

Lucky for me this eastbound SP train had single containers at the right time so I was able to barley squeeze off a shot of this westbound freight train. This meet is going on in northern Missouri ... (more)

I made a trip in 2001 to shot the BNSF coal line east of Alliance. At this time mainly SD70MAC's were king of the region, but a few odd ball DC sets were mixed in. Here a loaded coal train has 3 D... (more)

Sometimes when I see some of the stuff the railroads did back in the 90's, I have to scratch my head. Here is one of those slides. Nothing says hotshot like a lone GP 35 on a intermodal train with... (more)

When I was fired from the IMRL for 15 days on rules violations, I decided to go on a whirl wind tour of the west for my 1st time. So I set out to see Colorado, Utah, and Montana back in 2000. I pa... (more)

A lone MAC brings up the rear end of this loaded coal train. The train is seen here working the grades between Red Oak and Stanton in southwestern Iowa. The train is still around 46 miles from Cre... (more)