With a quartet of BNSF locomotives, westbound loaded grain train G GDNBAR8 12A thunders west through Nepo, California on a beautiful, winter morning. Photo taken on January 17, 2022.

BNSF 5959 is an engine I've come across before on the Black Hills Sub out west in Campbell, Wyoming. On this day it leads an empty JHMX Miller coal train out of downtown Memphis across CN Junction... (more)

On a pristine winter's afternoon, a BNSF Provo-Denver freight curves through Spanish Fork Canyon at milepost 673, just west of Narrows, Utah. Milepost 673 is the distance measured east to Denver, ... (more)

A sparkling clean (rare for wintertime operation) ES44AC trails BNSF's Denver-Provo manifest just west of the Kyune Gooseneck in Price Canyon. This westbound DPU would lead an eastbound Provo-Denv... (more)

While storm clouds brew over the Wasatch Mountains, BNSF Railway's Provo, UT to Denver, CO manifest heads east toward 7447 ft. Soldier Summit.

BNSF 5959, a distributed power unit, trails the daily Denver, CO to Provo, UT manifest through Spanish Fork Canyon approaching CP RG672, Narrows.

Powder River coal on the Piedmont. NS 78J heads North through Gaffney.

It seems that anything is possible on today's modern railroads. Here we see a joint Utah Railway-BNSF Railway coal train traveling east on the Union Pacific Provo Subdivision with a Utah Railway c... (more)

Just about ready to kick it up to 55mph, this Becker, MN to Black Thunder Mine, WY empty is just about off the 40 mph track east of New Salem. The 1st 27 miles leaving Mandan twists along Sweet Br... (more)

The parade of new locomotives continues this morning as priority merchandise from Dilworth heads east behind a GEVO.

This is the DPU of a loaded coal train that had to stop on main two near Litchfield on account of the crew working their 12 hour maximum. Look closely, and you'll see the van to pick up the crew a... (more)