BNSF 5117 shoves on a westbound grain train.

The 741 relief job rounds the curve at Wilmington as it brings a stack train from Alcoa siding to Watson, where PHL YPBN07 will get on and take the train to the Ports. The power gets run around on... (more)

Today Q186 gets the clear signal at Lafayette Connection while Q185 waits for it to pass. The southbound train Q185 will now head north to the same location (Fairburn, Ga) that Q186 started from.

A pair of BNSF GE's lead a Graybull, WY to Lincoln, NE train out of Sterling, CO. This train, made up of a lot of bentonite clay out of Graybull and Lovell has made a set out at Sterling and will ... (more)

BNSF GEs idle in Provo Yard late in the afternoon below the snow-capped peaks of the Wasatch Mountains.

The hottest train on the BNSF system, the Willow Springs, IL to North Bay, CA Z9 rolls through the canyon with less than an hour of sunlight left on this hot September Saturday in the Arizona dese... (more)

The hot Willow Spring, IL to North Bay, CA Z9 moves around the curvy train along Kingman Canyon with its long string of pigs as the sun slips behind the cliff edges.

|Grain train west of Roosevelt, WA

A KCS Southern Belle holds the #2 spot in the power lashup, as an Eastbound empty grain train rolls towards the Columbia River Gorge.

A loaded ballast train finds the late evening sun just before it starts to set behind the mountains.

The sun is setting on BNSF 5117 South as it passes under the high/wide load detector at MP 328.6, just east of Bena, as it begins its climb toward the summit.

Hiking into the upper part of Curtis Hill rewarded me with the loudest modern-generation GE experience I've ever had, even though one of them was a GEVO! These three GE's were deafening as they d... (more)

Grain train passes approach signal to South Siding Switch Sealy, and approach the Machala Road grade crossing.

BNSF Dash 9 #5117, and two more BNSF H2 Dash 9's race West past McClure Road.