On a crystal clear fall morning, an eastbound rack train is on its way down the hill from Flagstaff and the Arizona Divide. The run across the Arizona desert to a crew change at Winslow lies ahea... (more)

No eastbound chase in the Flagstaff area is complete without the shot at the Winona highway overpass. Here, on a clear October morning with the San Francisco Peaks in the background, an eastbound... (more)

Shortly after sunrise on a clear June morning, a hot eastbound Z-train is on the causeway across Rowland Lake in the Columbia Gorge between Bingen and Lyle.

Shortly before sunset, a westbound domestic stack train is well into its climb up Goffs Hill. In the background, the Dead Mountains of the eastern Mojave Desert.

In early morning, but running about four hours late, the westbound Southwest Chief is running on the left hand track shortly after its station stop in Barstow. A westbound manifest has stopped sh... (more)

The vertical curve at Maine is clearly evident as an eastbound stack train approaches the grade crossing. In another 12 miles the train will end its long climb from Needles, California (elevation... (more)

On the BNSF's Crookton Cutoff, a westbound stack train swings around the curve leading to West Doublea.

A seemingly endless westbound rack train is swinging through the big S-curve near the south (railroad, west) end of Kingman Canyon. In another 60 miles the train will be in Needles for a crew cha... (more)

A westbound stack train leans into the second half of the big S-curve west of Eagle Nest on the BNSF's Crookton Cutoff.

Just as the sun is about to set, a westbound stack train is beginning the pull up Yampai Hill. The head end has just passed the landmark water tank at West Pica.

After climbing through the more rugged section of Kingman Canyon, an eastbound intermodal sweeps around the big curve at the baseball diamonds on the south side of Kingman, just railroad east of t... (more)

A westbound domestic stack train splits the signals at West Pica and is about to begin the hard pull up Yampai Hill.

Eastbound international stacks swing through the S-curve below the mesa at Laguna

The day is almost over in western New Mexico as this westbound stack train works upgrade from Bacca toward the setting sun. Thoreau and the continental divide are a few miles ahead.

In the sweet light of late afternoon, a westbound stack train is in the middle of its climb out of Needles and up Goffs Hill. The train is between the railroad locations of Ibis and Bannock and h... (more)