The sound of dynamic brakes whining echo through Crozier Canyon as the Z-NYCLAC4 (New York, NY to Los Angeles, CA) descends down the 1.3% grade of Crozier Canyon.
The California Zephyr has pulled into Denver Union Station which then gives a green light to BNSF 5785 (ES44AC) to take the morning Z train out of the intermodal facility in Denver, Colorado.
Rumbling along the banks of the Missouri River, a westbound BNSF freight journeys through Lombard Canyon just west of the siding at near sunset on June 29, 2016.
Beautiful low light of a summer afternoon illuminates a westbound BNSF manifest freight in Lombard Canyon, Montana, on June 29, 2016.
BNSF 5785 & 6358 westbound.
An empty Texas Utilities coal train from the KCS moves west across the terminal behind a lone GEVO. The train is passing Union Station with the downtown skyline looming in the distance. This train... (more)
No shortage of AC power today... this DPU has slowed the train to a crawl. The water froze up and started to leak... how could that happen... oh yea, the windchills were 45 below zero!
