An empty grain shuttles moves through the crossover switch of Bellemont, to avoid track and time near Flagstaff, as it races towards the summit of the Arizona Divide on a summer morning.

Early in the morning, a trio of BNSF GEVOs rolls off the hill between the summit and Quinlan with an eastbound stack train in tow.

On Bolo Hill at East Amboy - An eastbound stack train passes through CP East Amboy as climbs Bolo Hill after leaving Amboy California.

On BNSF’s busy “Transcon” and curving through North Guam, New Mexico, is an eastbound intermodal train led by a year old GE ES44DC No. 7236 on March 28, 2010.

The head end of westbound Q171 emerges from the shadow of Q172's tail end as the two stack trains meet on the grade separated portion of the CSX Garrett Sub.

BNSF 7236 (w/ a hand made numberboard) leading a Q-LACCXO1-16A stack train eastbound past Silverwood into the morning sun.

At an impressive track speed of 70MPH, an eastbound stack train traverses the scenic Gallup Subdivision southwest of Albuquerque.

An eastbound stack train led by a trio of widecabs meets a westbound coal train in Los Lunas along BNSF's extremely active Gallup Subdivision.

In the early morning light, an eastbound stack train makes it's way through the desert of central New Mexico, bound for Belen and points east.

A short and hot Z2 pulls into Winslow for its crew change.

BNSF's Southern California Christmas Train Trip Two takes the S Curve just before slipping under Route 138 in Wrightwood, as it makes its way over Cajon Creek in world famous Cajon Pass. The train... (more)

BNSF's Southern California Christmas Train Trip Two slows for Summit, where it will change ends for a westbound trip back down Cajon Pass and into San Bernardino. With the exception of the baggag... (more)

DPU pushers on KLBCH-19 from Long Beach to 59th Street in Chicago pass by the BNSF Christmas train. These two trains will follow each other up into Cajon in the following hour, and I'll see them b... (more)

The second run of Saturday's BNSF Southern California Christmas Train waits to load at the grand restored Santa Fe station, while watched by a Metrolink F59PHI. The X-Mas train is scheduled to loa... (more)

The foamers were out in full force along the old Santa Fe Pasadena Sub for BNSF's 2009 Southern California Christmas Train run for the City of Hope in Duarte. A short consist of BNSF business cars... (more)