A high priority freight out of Brownwood, Texas heading west for Barstow, Calif., exits out of Crozier Canyon while making a meet with an eastbound stack train at MP 481 on the BNSF Seligman Subdi... (more)

Stacks out of the Logistics Park intermodal facility in Elwood, Ill., bound for Long Beach Pier A round the curve at the Hackberry Road crossing right off US Route 66 on March 10, 2015.

Stacks off the CSX in Chicago (North Baltimore, Ohio) bound for Los Angeles head west through downtown Flagstaff, as seen from the top of Mars Hill on March 9, 2015.

A Willow Springs, Ill., to Los Angeles Z-Train rolls through downtown Flagstaff, passing the Amtrak station on March 9, 2015.

Westbound stacks from Corwith Yard in Chicago descend the Arizona Divide at Maine, bound for Stockton, Calif., on March 9, 2015. The San Francisco Peaks loom high in the background, covered with s... (more)

After meeting a northbound at BD Junction, NS 33Q rolls down the Brooklyn District with a former Conrail SD60M as sole power on March 7, 2015. The train originates out of Decatur, Ill., and termin... (more)

An empty coal train from the A.B. Brown Generating Station in West Franklin, Ind., rolls past a rural railroad crossing east of McLeansboro on February 13, 2015. The Evansville Western Railway is ... (more)

A loaded coal train from Patiki Mine near Carmi, Ill., rolls past a rural Posey County farmland west of Mount Vernon on February 14, 2015.

A mixed freight off the Norfolk Southern at Sidney, Ill., headed for Pine Bluff, Ark., comes through Tamaroa on Union Pacific's Pinckneyville Sub on February 8, 2015. This line is seldom-used so t... (more)

A "rainbow lashup" leads the Belt Railway of Chicago's Clearing Yard to Pine Bluff, Ark., manifest south on the Chester Sub on January 24, 2015.

On Super Bowl Sunday (February 1, 2015), a mixed manifest for Livonia, La., speeds down the Chester Sub as light fades.

The DPU of a southbound loaded oil train for Saint James, La., CREX (Citirail) 1346, pushes hard as it rolls down the Chester Sub south of Grand Tower in the late afternoon of January 24, 2015.

On a pleasant January afternoon, a hot Z-Train for Laredo, Texas crosses over the Big Muddy River as it races down Union Pacific's Chester Sub on January 24, 2015.

During a brief period of storm light, daily Decatur, Ill.,-Memphis, Tenn., interdivisional freight CN A432 makes the climb at Cobden Hill with a pair of veteran GEs leading on October 2, 2014. The... (more)

At Kingsferry Road, a frac sand unit train for Monahans, Texas rolls down the Chester Sub in the late afternoon of September 19, 2014.