BNSF9741 is now on the 2.2% with the rear 6 units soon to follow.... An incredible show!

BNSF9741 is not quite on the 2.2% but you would not know it by the sound of 8 EMD's in RUN 8. The coal train is bound for Oregon's Boardman Power Plant.

MRL4300 leads a 5 unit swing help over Austin Creek Viaduct. BNSF9749 was the head-end power that passed a few minutes previous. Watching "Heavies" assault Mullan is one of the best railroad show... (more)

Two BN Executive SD70macs roar over the Skyline Trestle. These units are quickly falling off the line as 1st choice coal power.....

UP8759 races up Medbury Hill with a westbound intermodal. The smokey backdrop is from a range fire near Mountain Home....

A very mixed consist leads a BNSF trackage rights train up Solider Summit...

UP5460 climbs the grade at Tunnel 10. The train heavy in lumber is straining hard on the pul towards the summit. I believe this shot is no longer possible w/o permission as it has been fenced off.... (more)

MRL4313 leads the helper consist of BNSF 7282 West. Reminiscent of the large helper sets of the DRGW, few places see helper scenes like this in the 21st Century.

BNSF 7282 crosses Skyline Trestle with an "Earth Worm" Grainer for the West Coast.

BNSF 5984 now has most of the train on the 2.2% climb as it approaches Austin.

One of my favorite vantage points on Mullan Pass is the Upper Horseshoe of the Austin Loops. Screaming upgrade past the Copper King mine BNSF 6329 leads its train of export black diamonds towards... (more)

BNSF 6299 is the last unit of a DPU consist shoving hard on the rear of an export coal train climbing Mullan Pass. The manned swing helper can be seen passing between the new and old Homestead as ... (more)

MRL 4310 shoves against a westbound intermodal train with a threatening western sky...

MRL 282 leads a light helper set downgrade towards Austin. Note the huge cut that bypasses the now abandoned Iron Ridge Tunnel.

BNSF 9835 thunders around the upper loop on the climb out of Austin. I am standing on the tailings of the Copper King Mine...on a spectacular late June morning!