The engineer on BNSF Railway train Z-WSPSBD9-15, a Willow Springs IL to San Bernardino CA Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train, gives a friendly wave to the idiot sticking his head of the vestibule t... (more)
An eastbound stack train pulls out onto the high plains of Montana after coming down off Marias Pass. The altitude here is about 5000 feet.
Orange GEs lead a westbound freight beneath the signal bridge at MP 244, northeast of Argyle.
109 loads of wheat from Hamberg, N. Dakota to Tacoma, WA soars over the Goat Lick Trestle on a gloomy Fall morning on Marias Pass. The Tamaracks (or Western Larch) are at peak and make for an in... (more)
Nice lighting right before a storm hits the Chicago area.
Railfans look on as BNSF 5343 leads another stack train west around Houlihan's Curve on a beautiful late-October day.
A southbound grain train curves through the rolling countryside of extreme southwestern Minnesota between Manley and Hills.
Just before lunch I received a tip that southbounds were running on the northbound main. A somewhat rare event. I was able to get out of work a couple hours early and I headed north from Colorado ... (more)
A stack train crosses the swollen Red River between Fargo, ND and Moorhead, MN. The level of the river at the time was 32.85 feet and continuing to decrease from the preliminary all-time record hi... (more)
The UP Albany Roustabout power (UP 553, 309) sits idling the day away as BNSF 5343 leads Amtrak Cascades #504 on Christmas Day.
BNSF 5343 C44-9W leads and AMTK 169 P42DC pushes Amtrak Cascades #504 as it departs Albany station on December 29, 2008. During the final two weeks of December, and even into January, unusually h... (more)
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A southbound departs the siding at Townley after meeting two northbounds.
The BNSF 5343 east, in charge of close to 4,000 foot of train blasts past our location just east of the 91 freeway.
A Dash 9 blasts through Flagstaff with a westbound stack train.