An outbound loaded coal train starts to roar up to track speed as the DPUs of the train exit the "tunnel" at Reno Junction.

Due to the forest fire in Yosemite, smoke has covered the sky in the Tehachapi mountains, but that doesn't stop UP as one of there intermodel trains heads north towards Seattle, WA as it snakes it... (more)

After five days of nearly continuous snowfall in Jan. 2017, Flagstaff received a total of three feet of snow in town and eight feet on the slopes. On the six day, a small storm cell rolls through ... (more)

Taking a trip back in time! With a group of cow boys at the depot for the celebration of railroad days out in San Bernardino, they pose for a photo in front of the famous 4-8-4 stream engine, 3751... (more)

On a cool and stormy September night, Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief comes to a stop to do its station work at Flagstaff. The city of Flagstaff is one of the few towns in the United Stations t... (more)

With the 2013 San Bernardino Railroad Days coming to a close, ATSF 3751 gets the highball to depart the station for Los Angeles.

An empty Comanche coal train is lead by a rebuilt SD70MAC as it heads north towards Denver on UP's Main 2 track along Colorado's BNSF/UP Joint Line. In the foreground, a BNSF locomotive sits in th... (more)

Ferromex's SD70ACe #4029 is sporting Ferromex's new paint scheme as it heads west on a 16,000 foot long combo-train near Antares.

People have shot this same Chicago to Stockton stack train since it left out of the yard on the 29th and the power was three Ferromex units, only. I kept an eye on the train for two days and it ha... (more)

A 19 locomotive power moves across the eastern Mojave Desert as dusk as it approaches Schulliver's Wash; near Cadiz. These motors are reportedly going to Barstow to be put back into service.

BNSF 7047 West stops at the BNSF MOW offices in Flagstaff to drop off a Dispatcher (LB). He would wait only a few minutes before an eastbound train would take him back down the hill to Winslow.

California Girls After spending majority of my summer in Arizona, it was great to get back to the Pacific Ocean and do some "train watching". I've never shot the northern region o... (more)

A pair of Apache Railway units notch up to continue their trip back to Snowflake, Arizona after dropping off a car at the "Pig Farm" between Holbrook and Snowflake

With a full rising from the east, a westbound stack battles the grade of the Arizona Divide at Cosnino as it meets an eastbound stack train.

One of BNSF's newly rebuilt SD70MAC, now SD70MACe, leads a heavy 101 loaded car grain for Central California as it races out of Crozier Canyon near Valentine. These new SD70MACes have been fitted ... (more)