BNSF 5944 leads a 130 car coal train for the Consumers Energy J.H. Campbell Generating Complex in West Olvie, MI as it leaves the Black Thunder Mine and enters BNSF's Orin Sub. From there, this BN... (more)

The third of 3 southbound trains came across the BNSF Frisco Mississippi River Bridge with BNSF 5944 leading and BNSF 8543 trailing with the 3 DPU still in West Memphis, AR on the other side of th... (more)

A bright sunrise catches BNSF 5944 (ES44AC) leading a coal train through Roggen on the Brush Sub.

The Morning Light at Roggen
Blasting through town at 50 and past the Roggen COOP elevator into the morning sun. The Front Range and Long’s Peak in full alpenglow stretches across t... (more)

Eastbound coal loads behind BNSF 5944 & 9991.

The sun has been up for mere minutes as BNSF 5944 (ES44AC) rounds the corner at Keenesburg, Colorado.

BNSF 5944 (ES44AC) leads a fast empty coal through the elevated curve approaching Keenesburg, Colorado.

This southbound BNSF coal train is just over 2 miles from the summit of Palmer Divide at the small town of Palmer Lake, Colorado. When it reaches Palmer Lake it will have climbed 2000 feet from De... (more)

A loaded tie train of old wooden ties for Minnequa, CO sits in the siding at Longs Peak while waiting for a northbound stack train to show up.

As the sunsets on the evening, a 2x1 Dp-ed coal train rolls east thru southern Iowa near the detector at MP 251. This coal load is 5 miles east of Fairfield en route to Burlington, IA, for next cr... (more)

Two GEVOs in the newest BNSF paint rumble through Pueblo and pass the Union Depot on the right which is hosting the annual Oktoberfest this weekend both inside and behind the depot. Above the ten... (more)

Westbound coal empties slide under the wood bridge west of Hawley. The power on this train is a display of BNSF coal haulers, including a repainted SD70MAC third out in the consist.

NS BT04 brought this train from NS Sumner Street over the river and down the Miami Cut - parking it by Stanley Tower. Now, four hours later a CSX crew is bringing it into CSX Walbridge yard.

A grain train waits crewless in the warm early sun at NS Sumner street yard while an old Lackawanna MU car rots away on a spur. The matched pair of GEVO's were probably pulled off a PRB coal trai... (more)

Coal empties from Otter Tail Power's plant near Big Stone City, SD cruise west on what was once the Milwaukee Road's mainline to the Pacific Northwest. Much has changed along these tracks since th... (more)