PTRA Job 141 doubles it's 127 car train out of North Yard, pulling all the way to Buffalo Bayou with one of their Centennial painted units in the lead.

With a freshly re-painted SD70M leading an AC4400CW past a searchlight signal, the skyline is perhaps the only giveaway that this is 2024 instead of 25 years earlier.

CPKC train G37400109 passes the old signals at Chaney Jct. I'm told the replacements were just cut-in a year later in the summer of 2025.

A long hood forward SD40 crosses Brays Bayou on it's way to work customers along the Strang Sub.

Searchlights & SD70Ms, almost a scene out of 2004.

Houston is significantly more fluid than I've seen in the past 30 years and one reason is utilizing more of the legacy trackage. Case in point, BNSF H TEAPTX1 10 takes a left off the West Belt to... (more)

Even with this loaded Galveston bound ethanol running down the GH&H at 10mph, it still made me nervous and he was in no hurry to clear the gauge.

With ZPBHO 10 putting it's train away at Settegast intermodal, BNSF grain shuttle G DNEPTN9 06 is just passing through on it's way down the East Belt to PTRA North Yard.

A crude empty with H2 & H1 painted throwback power. Eagle is one of my favorite locations on Marias Pass, but it's not easy to scale the scree up the side of the mountain to get this vantage.

An empty crude oil crosses the Continental Divide, measuring in at an altitude of only 5,215'.

In a very remote area west of Flathead Tunnel, a BNSF vehicle train flies over the relatively new cutoff around Lake Koocanusa.

A loaded coal train crosses Lake Pend Oreille, while construction of the second main track bridge is progressing, as evidenced by the crane in the background.

Passing the double 4 track signal bridges at guarding the west end of BNSF Hauser Yard, a crude oil load accelerates west with an increasingly rare set of once ubiquitous "Heritage II" p... (more)

A UP Spokane-Hinkle Manifest cruises through Marshall Canyon with a relatively short, light train.

Train TA-EAST arrives home after interchanging with the LC-WEST at Chipley. I was glad the clouds cooperated for my last photo of the day and didn't mind driving home through multiple torrential ... (more)