This scene is at the Canyon Coal Company’s Skyline Mine flood loader high up on the Wasatch Plateau in Utah. Elevation here is over 8000’. The mine is out of sight, on the left, up a canyon a... (more)

In spite of the BNSF leader this coal train is a Union Pacific train. My source for this info. was the loader operator. The photo was taken at the flood loader of the Skyline Mine, 16 miles south ... (more)

Winter at 8000’elevation in Utah’s Wasatch mountains. In spite of the BNSF leader, this is a Union Pacific coal train. The #4501 has pulled nearly all of its empty train entirely through the l... (more)

The DPU on a loaded ore train is dusted with fresh show after its round trip to Hibbing Taconite.

BNSF 4501 hustles stacks westbound at Ludlow in last light.

Southbound

A Southbound J-train rolls through Edmonds with 5 Boeing 737 fuselages in tow for delivery at the Renton Boeing plant.

High country reflection
With clouds still stubbornly clinging to the mountaintops after dusting the high country with snow, the sun breaks out briefly and illuminates a BNSF freight pas... (more)

Southbound H-PASBAK is making 25mph as it crests Lava Butte Summit, 11 miles south of Bend, OR.

BNSF 4501 leads an Everett to Pasco manifest train down the Yakima River Canyon. A reflection can be seen in the Yakima River / Roza Dam reservoir. To see an earlier shot of this train with anothe... (more)

An eastbound Everett to Pasco manifest train travels through Yakima Canyon along the Yakima River. A oxbow lake creates a nice reflection for the three head end units. To see a later shot of this ... (more)

It has just stopped snowing at the Skyline loadout in Carbon County, Utah. In spite of the BNSF leader, this is a Union Pacific coal train. The #4501 will pull the train entirely through the loade... (more)

Taking a tight curve under a signal bridge headed east towards Sparks