More red cliff and ex-ATSF warbonnets as this eastbound grain empty passes through Thoreau,NM 12/26/11.

BNSF 609 leads a grain empty at MP 108 BNSF Gallup Sub, just west of Bluewater,NM 12/26/11. About 2 feet of snow is on the ground from 2 snowstorms that hit Western New Mexico in a weeks time.

A late christmas present from BNSF. 3 ex-ATSF warbonnets lead a BNSF grain empty eastbound through scenery familiar to the Sante Fe, the beautiful red cliffs east of Gallup,NM. This shot was taken... (more)

BNSF 599 (ex-ATSF 666) leads the one of a kind Z train from Fresno,CA to Chicago,IL through Suwanee,NM 12/22/11. This train runs 4 days a week, and usually consists of stacks, refrigerated box car... (more)

A developing monsoonal thunderstorm towers over an empty coal train bound for El Segundo Mine near Lee Ranch Jct on this warm and muggy August morning. 8/13/11

Amtrak #3 has just passed a semaphore displaying a clear signal westbound as the train splits the semaphores controlling eastbound movements at the east end of Wagon Mound,NM 11/3/11.

Amtrak #3 passes along the red cliffs about 30 minutes until sunset 9/10/11. The train has just crested the Continental Divide at Continental Divde,NM (RR Station name Gonzales).

An Escalante Western coal train from Lee Ranch Mine is on home rails as it is 1 mile from its destination,the Plains Electric Generating Station near Prewitt,NM 11/28/11. The train has just exited... (more)

The 263rd train of 2011 from Peabody Coal's El Segundo Mine to Arizona Public Service's Cholla Power Plant in Joseph City, AZ is about to enter the BNSF Gallup Sub after its 34 mile journey down t... (more)

The semaphores at MP 706.1 sit in silence as a storm rages on in the distance. No trains would pass this location until the next day. 8/3/11.

A windmill standing out in the high plains of West Texas helps frame UP 844 as the sun is about to set behind the 4-8-4 on 11/2/11. The train was behind a westbound UP auto train, waiting for an e... (more)

30 minutes until sunset,UP 844 has hit home rails as the train has just taken the connection from BNSF's Boise City Sub to UP's Pratt Sub at Stratford,TX 11/2/11. From this point the train will ru... (more)

The sun has finally broken free from the snow and wind storm for a moment as UP 844 whistles off to move south after receiving another track warrant north of Boise City,OK 11/2/11.

Granite Peak, part of the Absaroka Mountain Range, stands tall in the background as a BNSF manifest from Pasco,WA to Laurel,MT has just left Big Timber, MT eastbound 10/17/11.

A BNSF westbound Z train from Memphis,TN to Los Angeles,CA breaks free from the monsoonal cloud cover on its journey west at Bluewater,NM 8/11/11.