BNSF 8785 (SD70ACe) & 6187 (ES44AC) pass Castle Rock area with a loaden coal train. BNSF 6138 (ES44AC) & 8818 (SD70MAC) are working on the rear end.

Moffat and Rollins- With eastbound coal snaking out of the 6.2 mile long Moffat Tunnel, one can't help but marvel at the sheer size of the mountains here. With the former grade of the lin... (more)

Freeport McMoran #63 accelerates up the steep grade out of Clifton, while three units wait in the runaway track for the train to pass. Soon these other units will head into Clifton to retrieve the... (more)

Greenhorn Trestle
Burlington Northern First 196, led by EMD GP50 No. 3147, arcs over curved Greenhorn Trestle while dropping downgrade on Mullan Pass between Skyline and Weed, Montana, o... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train blurs past a graveyard of semaphore signal masts lined up at Superior, Montana, after their removal from usefulness on October 6, 2005. One of o... (more)

Dressed in warbonnet red, Burlington Northern Santa Fe GE C44-9W No. 747 thunders westward with a freight past the milepost 192 semaphores east of St. Regis, Montana, on June 30, 2000.

Climbing Raton Pass, the eastbound Southwest Chief passes beneath a pair of Santa Fe searchlight cantilever bridges on its way to the summit.

4 for 4- Clawing its way up the last of the steep eastbound climb over Glorieta Pass, P42DC #4 leads Train #4 eastbound out of the Santa Fe valley.

Eastbound train Kingman AZ

Lots to see on this day at the BNSF engine servicing facility, including visitors from the north (Canadian National), south (Ferromex) and east (Norfolk Southern).

A pair of AC motors pull an empty coal train back to the Powder River Basin as they roll across the plains of southern Colorado on the BNSF's Spanish Peaks Subdivision.

The evening sun starts to faded below the horizon, an empty grain train from El Paso, TX returns to the corn fields of Nebraska as it negotiates the curves near Trinidad, CO along BNSF's Twin Peak... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s former Northern Pacific route over Mullan Pass west of Helena, Montana, features a series of amazing curves to climb the eastern grade of the pass. In the foreground, a westb... (more)

A trio of Union Pacific coal trains cross Logan Hill, north of Bill, Wyoming, on June 23, 2018. Even with the decline of coal, traffic on this four-track segment of the Orin Line in Powder River B... (more)

BNSF 4126 leads the parade into Kingman. With five trains in this view, this section of the Seligman subdivision was hopping.