BNSF 762, a nice looking Warbonnet GE, leads a Belen, NM to Barstow, CA manifest around the bend at Ludlow, CA in the middle of the Mojave Desert on BNSF's Needles Sub.

MRL 4403, MRL 4402 on the L-M nearly through passing (off in the far distance) the site of a 40+ loaded coal car derailment just west of Columbus, MT along the Yellowstone River

BNSF 7236 (w/ a hand made numberboard) leading a Q-LACCXO1-16A stack train eastbound past Silverwood into the morning sun.

Eastbound coal empty passing Quebec siding on Montana Rail Link's 2nd Sub with a rainbow set of head end power. Santa Fe warbonnet red on full display in the lead.

BNSF 5705 leads a loaded coal train around one of the numerous bends in the rail along Bozeman Pass, just west of Livingston, MT. In the distance, the 9,295 ft (2,833 m) point of Livingston Peak a... (more)

BNSF ES44C4 6848, and C44-9W 4631, are soaking up the last rays of Monday's sunshine. BNSF road power at Commerce Diesel Service (in the City of Commerce, CA), ready to pull eastbound stack trains... (more)

Things aren't all as they seem in this photo. A "repo-train" full of empty trailers being transferred from Phoenix, AZ to San Bernardino, CA is easing down the steep 3.0% grade of Main 3 (the old ... (more)

Eastbound vehicle train heading into the Mojave Desert's warm morning sunlight along BNSF's Needles Sub at West Siberia on September 11, 2008.

The hottest train on the railroad. - You know it's hot when it's got foreign power (UP) on a foreign railroad (MRL) and only two cars behind. This was a "J" train special out of Fort Worth,... (more)

Montana Rail Link GP9 No. 127 sits silent on a spur adjacent to the load out point for MRL's "Miltown Dam Dirty-Dirt" trains which for several months in 2007 hauled contaminated soil from the Mill... (more)

Basking in warm So Cal winter sunlight, a pair of BNSF NRE Gensets await their turns at Commerce Diesel Service.

South of HWY 138, BNSF 6805 West on the Q-NYCLAC1-15. In another mile or so this train will wind its way around Sullivan's Curve into Cajon Station.

MRL's "LM" manifest with two red ball dressed EMDs on the point, passing the 9.4 signal between Birdseye & Austin, MT, on their way up to Mullan Pass and the continental divide.

At the end of another long Montana summer day, MRL 109 is tied down and quiet near the Roundhouse tracks on the east end of Missoula's yard facilities. MRL 109 is on home rails here, as it has be... (more)

BNSF 4103 East (Q-LHACLO1-05) one of many 10,000+ foot double stacks, running on Cajon Sub's Main 1, passing through the Alray Cut (formerly Tunnel 1).