Dramatic clouds loom in the distance as an eastbound coal empty stretches out and does some switching before departing. This was parked at Dixon, MT all day yesterday.

A pair of westbound BNSF Railway trains descend Cajon Pass, and one overtakes the other at CP Walker. BNSF’s California Division Christmas Train, symboled O-SBDSBD2-12A, heads downgrade after r... (more)

BNSF 3908 leads an east bound train up Cajon Pass on a blustery afternoon. The rainbow in the background kept fading in and out as the clouds rolled by.

Early morning at Crookton finds an eastbound Z8 working towards the Route 66 overpass.

A short Alliance, TX to Stockton, CA Z-train start to gain speed after clearing the 25 MPH speed restriction inside of Crozier Canyon as the BNSF 5209 East struggles to reach that speed grinding u... (more)

BNSF 3908 (ET44C4) runs over the South Platte River after leaving the Denver Yard.

With the last spring sun of 2017 setting along the flats of Pica, the daily Los Angeles, CA to Atlanta, GA high priority train races through the control point (station) of Audley; just west of Sel... (more)

As the sun is moments away from setting, an eastbound stack train glides across the northern Arizona desert at normal track speed after a day full of heat restrictions.

While BNSF's 2015 California Division Christmas Train lays over between its two runs (both from San Bernardino to Summit, 25 miles away atop Cajon Pass), the crew and volunteers eat lunch - except... (more)

Rare mileage! Month-old ET44C4 3908 treads carefully through the BNSF Railway's Barstow Engine Facility on December 13th, 2015. At the first switch, the train will turn right and reverse ... (more)

The 2015 BNSF Christmas train with new Tier 4 compliant engines on each end. BNSF No. 3908, leads the train eastbound into Summit, where the train will then return westbound back to San Bernardino... (more)

The 2015 BNSF Christmas train with new Tier 4 compliant engines on each end. BNSF No. 3908, leads the train eastbound up the west side of Cajon Pass and into Sullivans Curve, sparkling in the morn... (more)

Brand new BNSF 3908 leads the 2015 Christmas Train up Cajon Pass as it enters Sullivan's Curve.

Passing through the cut near Summit in Cajon Pass, the BNSF's annual Southern California Christmas train will soon come to a stop in order for the crew to swap ends and head back down the pass for... (more)