The fall harvest is underway as a BNSF grain train is slowly wraps around the balloon track while being loaded at FS Grain in Ransom Illinois.

I'm beginning to lose count, train after train roll through Flagstaff in both directions. The traffic is primarily intermodal and a slew of orange BNSF locomotives. As quick as engine number 6946... (more)

A colorful consist enters the interlocking at DT Jct. with a Sioux City, IA-bound empty ethanol train.

A small burst of sunlight poking through fast moving cloud shadows, seemingly follow the front of an eastbound unit train. Marching uphill in the beginning of March, 4 GE engines pull the “slink... (more)

I was trying for a different perspective in Cajon when I caught BNSF 6946 leading an eastbound container train up the pass.

When was the last time you seen an SD40-2? One of the not so common locomotives sits at the yard office while waiting the next call to duty.

A long train of military equipment heads East along the Columbia River.

I train of military equpiment heads East long the Columbia River.