Westbound climbing the slope
Four big DC motors dig into the steep mountain grade at Skyline, MT. The heavy coal load is crossing Skyline Trestle and is less than 1 mile from Blossburg Tunnel.
UP ET44AC 2577 climbs east towards Shawmut on the Gila Sub with a 74 car vehicle train in tow.
Having emptied their train at Arizona Grain's terminal just east of Maricopa, AZ, UP ES44ACs 7674 and 7350 will now become the DPUs on the GSMRPY-13 heading back east to Nebraska for another load.
UP SD70ACe 8675 hustles a Dallas-Long Beach intermodal train west on the Gila Sub passing a set of old SP intermediate signals.
BNSF ES44C4 6747, CSXT C40-8W 7722 and BNSF ET44C4 3802 lead an empty grain train consisting almost entirely of brand new BNSF hoppers over the Canyon Diablo.
BNSF C44-9W 4412 brings up the rear of a Q CHISBD at East Darling.
BNSF C44-9W 4985 leads a short 51 car Barstow-Kansas City manifest east at West Darling on BNSF's Seligman Sub.
Shoving hard on the tailend of an absolute mammoth Long Beach stack train are BNSF ES44C4s 7932 and 6587. These were only 2 out of the 10 units helping this 15,750', 273 platform long monster over... (more)
With a "Track Rider" ahead occupying the block between East Darling and West Canyon Diablo, BNSF 7957E cools its heels as a massive 16,000', 273 platform S LPCLBT1 16 passes westbound.
BNSF's Barstow, CA - Lubbock, TX manifest speeds through the sag at West Darling on BNSF's Seligman Sub.
Stacks from the NS at Atlanta, GA climb towards Flagstaff behind a trio of BNSF GEs.
BNSF ES44C4 7062 hustles an El Paso bound vehicle train past the tailend of a Stockton bound stack train just west of Williams Junction.
A quartet of GEs hustle a Willow Springs destined Z train through Williams Junction.