BNSF 792, ATSF 335B and ATSF 642 struggle with a lengthy van consist as the train negotiates the long ascent from Winslow to the divide.

Many reckon the warbonnet would have been a fitting scheme for the BNSF, as exemplified by the 4716 leading a mix of AT&SF and BN power on this sixty car eastbound freight on the last lap into Bel... (more)

BNSF 767 leads a C30-7B and two Sd40-2s across the Colorado River at Topock, AZ. It will be a long uphill climb almost all of the way to Maine.

During the years that my son attended college in Laramie, WY we took a one week Spring Break tour along the Transcon. These were great times and we'd spent the night west of Seligman sleeping betw... (more)

Late afternoon finds the 4901 West grinding up the grade from Pica to Yampai. In another mile it will be downgrade to the Colorado River, 113 miles distant. Fuji Provia F.

It's a long, rigorous district running from Needles to Winslow. On a Saturday morning ATSF 115 East hustles through the old division point of Seligman as it makes a run for the Arizona Divide.

BNSF 4763 West comes sailing through DoubleA on the high-speed, low-grade Crookton cut-off. Forty years before, all traffic operated via Ash Fork with a 3% westward descent from Williams (Supai) ... (more)

BN 8158 leads a post-merger consist out of the sag between Chalender and Williams Jct. The 5262, an SDF-40-2 second out, is interesting. Originally an Amtrak SDP-40F, these units demonstrated a te... (more)

Pure Santa Fe. Even though BN power is beginning to appear on numerous trains, this 80 car eastbound is resplendent in its native dress as it heads down off the Arizona Divide between Flagstaff an... (more)

Into the setting sun comes BNSF 8219 at the old Allentown signals several miles west of Lupton, AZ. The staggered cantilevers on this left-hand running district had once accommodated a crossover, ... (more)

BN 7277, 4045, 6817 and ATSF 5261 hustle 86 cars of Barstow-bound manifest across the Arizona Divide on a Sunday afternoon with one of those appealing early post-merger power consists including tw... (more)

With a thunderstorm rumbling to the north, a loaded coal train approaches the summit of Crawford Hill at Belmont, Nebraska, on June 11, 1998. Motive power consists of three Burlington Northern GE ... (more)

As its long journey over the Oregon Trunk comes to a close, the full length of this northbound freight is seen slowly rolling away across the Celilo Drawbridge as the train approaches the yard at ... (more)

BNSF 8276 eases along the Kootenai River at Kootenai Falls, slowing for a meet with an eastbound empty oil train on BNSF's "High Line" west of Libby, MT.

BNSF 5771 heads a westbound coal train across the Noxon bridge over the Clark Fork near Noxon, MT on Montana Rail Link. MRL was handling an abundance of BNSF traffic this day, and this was the 10t... (more)