Among the fleets of intermodal trains, this solid steel coil train showed up.

A BNSF dash 9 leads intermodal train Q186 through the 2nd avenue crossing after having just come off the CSX main line at the 24th street control point. The double stack train is now riding atop ... (more)

With a CSX crew still onboard, Q186 is only a few thousand feet away from its hand-off point between CSX and BNSF. That would be the BNSF East Thomas yard in northwest Birmingham. Once the BNSF ... (more)

This grain train is south of Elsberry on the Hannibal Subdivision just a few minutes after the sun came up.

BNSF Dash 9-44CW 4046 with CN GP40-2LWs 9592 and 9675 make a light engine move to the station in Coteau. After picking up their train from the Valleyfield Sub, they will head west on the Kingston ... (more)

Evidence of the previous night's storm covers the landscape as BNSF 4046 drops downgrade out of Marcel.

A BNSF unit leads an eastbound empty hopper train over NS rails in Glenfield.

BNSF 4046 leads three sister units over the flooded Red River into Fargo, ND.

After a crew swap at D.L. Switch, this empty grain train accelerates south for Alton, ND.

Grain empties for Alton, ND, are tugged out of Grand Forks by a trio of H2 Dash 9s. The daily manifest from Northtown Yard would soon be meeting the train at Thompson.

BNSF 4046 starts down Cajon Pass after crossing over from main 2 to main 1. A new signal bridge has been put up as progress on the earth removal for the third main has been made. A UP manifest i... (more)

The hardest part of the pass is behind. Helena and a crew change lay ahead.

Grain train has crested the summit of Mullan Pass and begun the descent into Helena.

Operating on UP Palmdale Cutoff to West Colton