A loaded Comanche train grinds up the 0.6% grade of Keenesburg. The vast open landscape of the Brush Sub is on full display here as late summer thunderstorms forms in the background.
Black Thunder Mine, WY to Comanche XCEL Power Plant (Pueblo), CO coal train pulls out of the sag at Crest as it powers west across the open range of eastern Colorado.
Norfolk Southern coal train 81N eases under a couple coal loadouts at Hurley,VA on their way up the Buchanan Branch
BNSF GE's get the scenic tour of eastern Kentucky and southwest Virginia coal country as they bring NS train 81N across Knox Creek with 105 loads from Consol.
Two BNSF GEs charge up the grade at track speed with 811 in tow. It's been years since I've seen foreign power on a coal train so it was nice to see two big orange locomotives leading a train to ... (more)
Having emerged from the 6.21 miles of darkness of Colorado’s Moffat Tunnel under the Continental Divide, BNSF’s Provo to Denver manifest freight is rolling eastward past East Portal siding and... (more)
BNSF 6222 & 6095 with westbound empties.
Shortly before sunset, an eastbound BNSF trackage rights train is in the rugged terrain just east of Thompson on the former DRG&W.
An eastbound BNSF trackage rights train on the former DRG&W splits the signals at the west end of Grassy siding in the heart of the Utah desert. The Book Cliffs stand tall in the background.
An eastbound BNSF trackage rights train on the former DRG&W is in the Price River Canyon at the twin Kuyne tunnels. Although the train is not long, only 32 cars, it has not yet cleared the portal... (more)
BNSF’s Provo to Denver manifest freight has just emerged from the 6.21 miles of darkness of Colorado’s Moffat Tunnel and is rolling eastward past East Portal siding and autumn’s beautiful co... (more)
Three ES44ACs pull an empty coal train from Alliance near the end of the run on the approach to the crew change at Edgemont.
