An EMD SD70ACe, follow by three other GE motors, hustles the Stockton, CA to Willow Springs, IL Z-train with a string of reefer cars on the headend. Running on what is normally the westbound main ... (more)

A rebuilt SD70MAC races westward out of Crozier Canyon, near Hackberry, with a 13,000 foot-long stack train. Running under the symbol S-ALTLHG1-15L (Stack train from Alliance, TX to Los Angeles Ha... (more)

A combo stack train (13,000 ft long) races down towards the control signal of Cherokee with a rebuilt SD70MAC leader. One main track #1, the hot Z LACWSP9 18U charges up the grade with ease.

A Los Angeles Harbor to Alliance, TX stack train crosses the Colorado River Bridge at Topock, AZ on a warm May morning. In the consist, second out, is Norfolk Southern's Savanah and Atlanta herita... (more)

Running 13 hours behind schedule due to mechanical issues in Colorado, Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief approaches Barstow to perform its station stop, on May 10, 2021.

A loaded windmill blade train descends down Kingman Canyon as the sounds of dynamic motors whine down the 1.6% grade of main track one. On main two, a Q LACLPC6 charges up the grade as it continue... (more)

A pair of Dash-9s pull the daily Denver, CO to Lincoln, NE manifest across Barr Lake as the crew will continue the long journey to their home terminal of McCook, NE.

Slowly grind up the southern slope of the Palmer Divide, a Slaton, TX to Denver, CO manifest train is in a battle with gravity as it grinds the 1.4% grade towards Monument, CO.

What looks like a scene from the late 90s, BNSF 4700 leads a Belen, NM to Barstow, CA manifest train round the curve of Hackberry. As PTC is being installed on more locomotives, the iconic colors ... (more)

The lone DP motor shoves the rear of a Barstow, CA to Tulsa, OK manifest train through Park Moabi as a thunder storm hits the Mohave Valley area.

A Barstow to Tulsa manifest train leaves the Needles area as spring rain shower forms over the Mohave Valley area; seen from Park Moabi. With the division point changing to the state line, is sect... (more)

An extremely late Los Angeles, CA to Willow Springs, IL Z-train races into Winslow for a crew change with the San Francisco mountain range in the background. This train is running 37 hours behind ... (more)

A pair of Canadian Pacific locomotives lead a Sweet Grass, MT to Oakdale, CA unit grain train through Valentine on a windy, March afternoon.

BNSF 6163, one of BNSF's 25th anniversary locomotives, leads a Chicago, IL to Stockton, CA intermodal train through Valentine, Ariz. as it races up to track speed of 70 MPH.

Highball the Roll-by... Dusk has settled in and the temperature drops at the summit of Goffs Hill; located in the eastern Mojave Desert. Here, a Chicago, IL to Los Angeles, CA intermodal tr... (more)