Slugging it out on the stiff grade that began at Caliente, BNSF 4985 negotiates the nearly constant curvature of old Espee's assault on the Tehachapi range on a warm Friday afternoon. The southbou... (more)

The surge of power is simply thrilling as three laboring units lift a manifest through Tehachapi Loop at the south end of Walong. Another three units are tucked in mid-train. This area affords one... (more)

In the evening light, northbound double-stacks behind UP 4946 coil into the great Tehachapi Loop. The vantage point would seem to be an excellent spot for one's front porch!

Southbound negotiating the loop on an April early evening.

Ahhh, a mighty warrior still bearing the legendary "cigar band" of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe. An eastbound manifest passes Franconia on its lengthy ascent of the Arizona Divide.

In the immensity of the desert, BNSF 5520 brings an eastbound manifest through the arid landscape between Needles and the Colorado River.

A Cimarron Valley RR freight with ex-D&RGW GP-30 3024 and ex-GM&O GP-30 502 (rebuilt as a GP-26 and bearing Southwestern RR lettering) ascends the long grade out of the Arkansas River valley from ... (more)

There are some half a dozen re-crew "pads" in the Fremont, NE area. Here a couple eastbounds have stopped about five miles east of town, at Mercer, to receive Fremont-Boone, IA crews. The 5893 mov... (more)

In the waning light of a November afternoon, UP 6500 and two mates hustle westbound empty hoppers through Missouri Valley, IA.

The old Stanley Brothers tune "The Fields Have Turned Brown" comes to mind this time of year. With wings spread to sail, UP 8525 accelerates through Ames, NE with empty hoppers returning to the Po... (more)

The sun sets much earlier now. A westbound grain train, with a couple CSX Dash8 tourists, departs Fremont in the last rays of a late October afternoon.

The engineer of the UP 7884 West puts the hammer down departing Missouri Valley, IA with a double-stack train on a late Saturday afternoon.

The 4993 gets underway out of Fremont, NE with a manifest headed for North Platte.

During a brief interlude of blue sky in an otherwise dreary week, this manifest came laboring west after letting an intermodal by at Lewistown, with Amtrak on its block.

Sometimes you travel a thousand miles and get clear skies, other times rain. The latter was the case this first of October along the old B&O. Nevertheless, the rain provided an interesting mood as... (more)