ON August 12th BNSF 6112 leads a z train through the famous region so many have shot at sunset. For years I have shot this exact composition and still not come away with exactly what I was looking... (more)
Since 2001 (15 trips or so) I have tried to get that famous glint shot at Winslow with no luck...timing just never worked out. On this day it was steady clouds with some heavy rain bursts until t... (more)
BNSF 6112 takes the S curve at the west end of Winton siding at track speed with its empty coal train in tow. It is about to meet a Chicago-South Seattle Q-train which took the siding for it. The ... (more)
The Golden Switch has a freshly repainted SD9 assigned to it on September 15, 2000, at Golden, Colorado. Painted in May of 2000, this former Colorado and Southern/Burlington Northern locomotive su... (more)
A very colorful lash leads the daily Denver - Laurel manifest out of Longmont with a Severe Thunderstorm in the backround.
Coal empties work their way north into Palmer Lake behind a grungy GEVO. This might be the first time I can say that an H2 MAC's paint looks better than a Swoosh'd GEVO's...
An empty coal train from ADM in Decatur rounds the wye off the Illinois River bridge and heads for home rails.
BNSF 6112 West is on the Peoria Subdivision of the former CB&Q's Galesburg to Peoria line, as it heads westward at Edwards, Illinois on Saturday Jan 31st, 2009. The empty coal train is returning f... (more)
An empty coal train from ADM in Decatur blasts through Edwards, Illinois. I couldn't figure out if the big blob of ice trackside was done on purpose or was just a random act of nature.
BNSF 6112 South roars through the crossing at Tower 55 as a northbound UP grain empty departs the Ney Bypass.
As an empty UP grain train makes its way north toward Kansas, a southbound BNSF coal load roars through the diamonds of Tower 55 on the adjacent main.
