A BNSF warbonnet, fakebonnet, shoves the rear of the KCKBAR manifest train as it descends towards Williams as an eastbound trains holds for a clear signal.

Deep in the Wild West of Wyoming a southbound manifest heavy in petroleum coke out of Billings, pulls Sheep Canyon, Wyoming. With several 4x4 vehicles, several cases of beer and good friends the ... (more)

Snaking its way out of Woodford toward the Tehachapi Loop, BNSF 3741 leads the eastbound RICBAR over the two crossings of the Tehachapi Creek here and it negotiates the horseshoe curve here.

BNSF intermodal trains meet at Herman, TX. Coming down the "stairs," or multiple hogbacks here, is 705 East, headed for Alliance Yard north of Ft. Worth. At left is U.S. 287, which runs ... (more)

Looking Santa Fe, like it should, the 5836 West comes out of the sag between Chalender and Williams Jct. as the snow is still melting on the Arizona Divide.

An eastbound crosses the Colorado River as it enters Arizona and commences the long, long climb to the divide. The 7042 East has an HLCX lessor, another BN, SP and CNW units leading 64 cars. BN SD... (more)

There's been a decent run of traffic on this spring morning and BNSF's version of a "short, fast train" comes dropping down the grade off the Arizona Divide behind one of those wild earl... (more)

For several years following the great western mergers of the 90s just about anything could show up as power. Out here on the Transcon, it was always best to have a warbonnet or blue and yellow in ... (more)

ATSF 115 pounds the frog as it brings a westbound intermodal through Maine in the late afternoon. A lot of line side character has been lost to the removal of older signal systems and the code lin... (more)

ATSF 234 comes humming down the grade past the Cosnino Road crossing east of Flagstaff on a bluebird morning. Fuji Velvia.

Four GE motors races out of Kingman Canyon on a Memphis, TN to Los Angeles, CA intermodal train as they sneak behind the "Big Rig Doll House".

Just west of the New Mexico line at MP 181.9, BNSF 7893 and two mates ahead with two behind comes rolling along the classy looking iron into an Arizona sundown.

It's a busy morning at Winslow as BNSF 8201 queues up for a crew change. Both trains are eastbound, there are two eastbounds ahead of these two trains, & the small white dot in the distance behin... (more)

BN 7155 leads a mix of BN and ATSF power as well as a CN unit east through Abo Canyon on a manifest freight in spring 1998. By this time Heritage I was history on new locomotive orders, replaced b... (more)

It's sundown on an April eve as yet another headlight appears on the horizon and Santa Fe 658 East approaches across the long valley east of Kingman. As impressive and iconic a corporate design a... (more)