BNSF 9211, 5719, & 6388 westbound with a mixed freight.

Coal loads head east over the Gull River on a very nice April afternoon. I've always wanted a shot here and today was finally the day.

A BNSF empty coal train heads east at Jens, MT with assistance from an MRL SD40 & SD45, passing the often photographed barn at the curve west of Jens siding.

BNSF 9211 & NS 9783 westbound with empties.

A pair of SD70ACes running 1x1 tug empty coal buckets westward through central Nebraska.

Westbound KCS frac sand load coming off the KCS Alliance sub at the Wye and entering the BNSF Ft Worth sub.

BNSF 9211 is tied down for the night waiting to be loaded with aggregate from 3M in the morning.

Got a heads up from Tlout that E949 was going by his place on the north side of Holland. With lots of snow the day before and a gorgeous sunny day, had to head trackside during lunch to nab a "we... (more)

BNSF 9211 (SD70ACe) leads BNSF 9704, an SD70MAC, MRL 250, an SD40-2, and MRL 330, an SD45 with an empty coal train eastbound into the siding at the west end of Bonner, Montana for a meet. The trai... (more)

Eastbound BNSF coal empty between Perma and Dixon, MT on MRL's 10th Sub.

This scene looks like somewhere on the CNO&TP but it's actually magnificent southern Indiana. The Caterpillar move, NS 055, heads east through the big cut at Ramsey, IN as it approaches Louisville... (more)

The nice thing about having the section crew based right in Cass Lake, the yard switches are normally cleared off promtply after a snowfall. This SD70ACe is parked on the main waiting for a crew ... (more)

An empty coal train out of the Pleasant Prairie Power Plant has just cleared the Webco switch out of the plant and begin accelerating south towards Wadsworth. These are new trains on the CP due to... (more)