BNSF 7665 West passes under Highway 70 and crosses the Feather River at Pulga, the most senic part of the canyon.

Christmas came early for me, and Santa got exactly what I wanted! With one of my two new camera bodies (Canon 6D, the other being a 7D) in hand, and a UP SD9043MAC trotting 5800 feet of grain empt... (more)

RRC 2301 and RRC 1800 run light down #2 track with guest engineer Sonny Sellers running and conductor and fellow RP contributor Mike Mautner riding the point.

Steam, and snow! Who'da thunk we'd see steam in California in 2009, over Donner Pass?! UP 844 gently glides down the mountain on her Western Tour.

Happy Birthday from BNSF! On 3/22 I turned 21, and the first train of the morning is this Warbonnet led baretable from Phoenix, winding through the crossovers at Maine.

Well, someone must have read my mind about me wanting BNSF 557 to stay on the Warm Springs Local for a bit longer... They changed the power! But, I like the decision they chose now, with BNSF 124,... (more)

Amidst a snowstorm, Miss Katy leads the Westbound ZCSLT through the small town of Gold Run.

Wow. A Westbound stack train meets an Eastbound at Kamela, as one drops off the Earth and the other rises from it's depths. Both trains are cresting a 2.2% grade, the summit of the UP line ... (more)

The wayfreight has setout 14 corn loads for the ethanol facility and pulls a handful of mash and ethanol back towards the main. The Coal Creek Station, owned by Great River Energy, opened in 1981 ... (more)

Its the 4th of July, and BNSF has spent the past three days opening the tracks through Minot after the flooding Souris River put half the city under water... The first 'revenue' train rolls West w... (more)

Engineer Pat Petroff is doing everything he can to keep the wheels turning on his Big Stone City, SD coal load as the battle up Rhame hill is nearly over, as in another mile it levels off and they... (more)

A foreman from the car department inspects the IOAST, awaiting an outbound crew in Oakland, with UP 1983 leading.

Bad moon rising... The DPU of an Eastbound manifest sits idle in the Virgilia siding, awaiting a new crew, while a waning moon is shrouded by the mid-June clouds on a cool morning.

Airplanes stay afloat! KCS 4817 and a BNSF GP39 lead a Boeing special over the 10th Subdivision. This train was the hottest train on the railroad after the major derailment on MRL's 4th Sub... (more)

A clean BNSF 124 sports its Warbonnet paint scheme, as it and a GP39 trot 42 cars from NUMMI up the square. Unfortunately Toyota shut down its Warm Springs operation, and this cute local that alwa... (more)