On the BNSF Railway's Transcon across the southwest, intermodal trains run as frequently as streetcars! Passing under the cantilever signals in Holbrook, Arizona, is "hot" train Q-LACAL... (more)

BNSF 3911, brand new ET44C4 leads this QATGLAC through Ludlow on a extremely hot afternoon.

112 degree desert heat is endured to chase BNSF 3911 west along the Needles Subdivision this afternoon as train QATGLAC works up Ash Hill with a brand new ET44C4 leading.

The second Tier 4 BNSF ET44C4 to lead a train west is on the point of this Atlanta to Los Angeles Q train seen here passing through scenic Kingman Canyon on the Seligman Sub. As a side note, this ... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner train 579 charges along the beach at San Clemente just south of the pier. It's views like this that the train gets its name "Pacific Surfliner."

All is quite in the heart of Valentine. Soon, the silence will be broken by the sounds of dynamic brakes and the power of a K5HL horn. A green light at the signal at East Valentine indicates a wes... (more)

Three GE units lead a Z7 through the snow leftover from a New Years Day snow storm that rocked the northern Arizona region.

Twilight begins to set along the eastern slope of the Arizona Divide as the former Santa Fe 199, now BNSF's Z WSPNBY9, races up the grade with ease as the winter air temperatures drop to below fre... (more)

After spending Christmas in Los Angeles, I began my journey back to Valentine. Before leaving, I learned that a westbound manifest had a solid Canadian Pacific consist on it was going to pass by t... (more)

The first rays of sunlight warm the nose of a relatively new ES44C4 as it pulls a string of empty flat cars through the sag of Darling with the San Fransisco mountains in the background.

A colorful Richmond, CA to Willow Springs, IL intermodal train of warbonnet, CSX, and NS paint schemes reach the summit of the Arizona Divide near Flagstaff as it'll beginning the journey down fro... (more)

Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief roars into Chapelle, NM, passing the classic and endangered semaphores that are still active on this line. On the head end today is one of Amtrak's heritage unit... (more)

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train makes its northbound move to Oakland, CA as it cruising along the beautiful beach in San Clemente. The train will be interchanged back with Unio... (more)

BNSF Railway train Z-CHCDEN9-10 (Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal; Chicago IL - Denver CO) rushes across Camp Creek, just east of Stratton, Nebraska, on August 11th, 2015. Behind the usual BNSF power ... (more)

The Oakland bound Circus train at San Clemente Beach on 8/10/15.