Old signals and an old BNSF paint scheme are caught together in this more than a decade old photograph as a north bound BNSF manifest races off the Tehachapi grade at Sandcut on a warm spring afte... (more)

Summer night runaround at Sandcut at the base of the Tehachapi mountains.

A bone dry golden hilled landscape, along with a saturated green creek bed, creates a perfect contrast and scene for a short BNSF intermodal to quickly twist its way up through one of the most sec... (more)

A classic Tehachapi Loop view.

A BNSF intermodal drifts down and around the famed Tehachapi loop under a mid morning storm.

As the thick morning fog continues to linger longer into the day above the San Joaquin Valley, countless south bounds would appear from the hazy depths below on their climb for the high desert and... (more)

A BNSF manifest quickly glides down the Tehachapi grade and approaches tunnel 9 on a warm summer afternoon.

Loaded taconite train crosses the Wisconsin Southern at Crawford, south of Prairie du Chien. These SD60Ms were common thru the 90s on these heavy trains bound for Granite City. Scanned slide from ... (more)

The BNSF leased alot of junk power after the merger. The railroad needed alot of power to help thru the struggles they had moving freight. Some of the leasers were these ex-ATSF C30-7s that came f... (more)

An empty coal train from the Brookfield Sub swings around the corner and out the Waterman way towards Graham for another trip back to the coal fields. By 1996 AC power was getting to be common. Sc... (more)

The rear DPUs of a long north bound BNSF manifest help bring their train down into the lower Tehachapi Mountains and around the horseshoe curve in Keene, CA on a perfect spring morning. Cloud shad... (more)

A north bound BNSF intermodal drops down grade between Allard and Caliente and through tunnels 1 and 2 as the head end pops out of tunnel 1 on a warm summer morning.

Within the darkened depths of the Caliente Canyon, on a cool fall afternoon, is a south bound BNSF manifest slowly battling its way up through the switch back curves and only minutes from the town... (more)

Blink, blink, blink. A flashing rear end device on a south bound BNSF grain train blinks it’s way slowly up through the curves of Cable on a warm early summer night at around 1 am in the morning... (more)

The motion blur of a north bound BNSF manifest on a fall night.