The sun pops out as BNSF SD60M No. 1404 leads an SD70MAC and SD40-2 on this westbound manifest as it rounds the big sweeping curve outside of Keenesburg, Colorado, on December 3, 2018.

Moments after sunset, an eastbound empty BNSF coal train races east along farm fields and US-6 just outside of Hillrose, Colorado, on December 4, 2018.

Freshly out shopped SD70ACU 7323 leads 39Q along the bank of the Ohio River just west of CP Bell.

23Z snakes along the bank of the Ohio River between Pittsburgh and Conway on the Fort Wayne Line.

An SD60M leads two other EMDs west after descending Beaumont Hill.

The Capitol Region Toys for Tots Train heads North for their next celebration location of Oneonta NY. Locomotives: NS 7030, NS 7014, JCTX 5711 and JCTX 5809

Hotshot 202 makes its way over the high trestle at Compton with UPS trailers on the head end.

NS 56G rolls through Burgin with an SD70M-2 on the head end.

A slow moving intermodal train grinds up the eastern slope of Goffs Hill as the morning sun rises over the eastern Mojave Desert on a warm September morning.

Powered by a pair of Union Pacific EMD SD90MAC-H 6,000 hp locomotives, a long southbound UP freight grinds upgrade out of Walong, California, climbing Tehachapi Pass on March 28, 2001. This area i... (more)

OMLX 9522 (GP40-2LW) gets ready to leave the Budweiser Brewery plant in Fort Collins, Colorado.

A unit oil train curves between the sidings at Woodford and Walong on the approach to the Tehachapi loop.

Fog and clouds break, illuminating just enough of the train to make an interesting scene. Was nice to get a different perspective of a line I have shot nearly my whole life.

One of my favorite locations on the Seligman sub. The opportunity for this photo is very short when the sun it at its most Northern point in AZ. Here a nice looking KCS unit brings up the rear of... (more)

BNSF 4562 leads an early morning z train through Cherokee canyon towards Peach Springs, AZ in front of the photogenic "Music Mountains"