NS 4232, a AC44C6M, leads a Norfolk Southern interchange to Los Angeles baretable train through Hackberry. These AC44C6M were originally General Electric Dash 9s that have been rebuilt and switche... (more)

BNSF 4704 pulls a 207 car long Barstow, CA to Galesburg, IL manifest through Kingman at dusk as it passes the refurbished train station. The train station service as a passenger stop for Amtrak tr... (more)

Amtrak's Phase II heritage unit sits in the set out track in Needles, Calif. after being set out the night before from Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief due to mechanical issues. The locomotive w... (more)

A tagged up 7700 series GEVO leads a Long Beach, CA to Alliance, TX intermodal train up the Main 2 track of Slaughter House Canyon in Kingman, AZ. A majority of BNSF's 7700 series locomotives are ... (more)

A long intermodal train for the Port of Long Beach begins it's 297 mile trip to Needles, CA as it races to to get a running start up the 1.5% grade of the Arizona Divide; leaving the crew change l... (more)

The Slaton, TX to Barstow, CA manifest start to lose speed as gravity begins fight the 10,000 ton train during the climb up Yampai Hill. On the spur track, a lone well car sits bad ordered, waitin... (more)

During November rain storm, the sun shines through the clouds, creating a rainbow, as a BNSF's Omaha, NE to Port of Los Angeles, CA stack train enters Kingman, AZ along BNSF's Southern Transcon.

A pair CSX motors lead a loaded auto train for Richmond, CA as they race through the rock cut near Hackberry.

BNSF 4701 leads a Chicago to Stockton intermodal train out of Crozier Canyon; rounding the curve towards Valentine. This train is of the "mega trains" where the railroad is combining two... (more)

Five yellow GE motors struggle pulling 135 cars of Powder River coal up the grade of Logan Hill on a gorgeous summer afternoon. Even with coal traffic down compared to years prior, the PRB and the... (more)

An empty coal train navigates across the rolling prairies of Wyoming's Powder River Basin near the railroad town of Bill. The two ACes on the point, and one on the rear, pull 134 cars for the Ante... (more)

An empty coal set for the North Antelope Mine race down the 1% grade of Walker Hill, south of Bill, as a summer storm moves eastward in the background along Wyoming's Powder River Basin.

With the summer sun dipping behind the Rocky Mountains, BNSF's hot Alliance, TX to Portland, OR intermodal train races across the plains of eastern Colorado near Hudson, CO. The three GE motors ha... (more)

Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr, train #6, descends down the eastern slope of the Colorado Rockies around Big Ten Curve as it nears Denver, CO. Here, this already late train will come to a st... (more)

A new SD70MACe leads an Alliance, TX to Portland, OR auto train north along BNSF' Front Range Sub through Norkfolk, CO as it nears the end of this crew route of Cheyenne, WY.