With just minutes of sunlight left, BNSF 5190 (Dash944CW) makes smoke as it pounds the rails on its way to Denver.

A view of a very long double stack train on the Transcon across Missouri.

BNSF 5190 & 3982 lead a westbound grain train. The train will parallel Hwy 2 all the way to Alliance.

BNSF power leads CSX K057 as it heads west along the Ohio River as the city of Pittsburgh looms in the back round.

An eastbound stack train heads for Barstow with the sun setting as the DPUs round the curve at Hodge.

Nikon D2x, 17-35 @30mm

Nikon D3s, 180mm

An empty grain train has its lights on dim prior to meeting helpers at East Java during the last rays on sunlight.

I waited for the train fighting a grin as I nervously watched the fog roll in and out. Soon over the roar of the waterfall you could hear the distinct thuds of an approaching train and no one in ... (more)

Coming off of the Devils Lake Subdivision and onto the Grand Forks Subdivision, a Heritage II Dash 9 and a Heritage I counterpart haul a unit grain train eastward.

Tower may not survive the summer.

BNSF 5190 crosses the Kankakee river on the old Santa Fe Chillicothe subdivision.