BNSF 7036 heads West at Barstow.
Six engines lead a massive Manifest along the BNSF Barstow Sub.
There are places on the Shafter Subdivision that require climbing and sweeping curves. This is not one of them. As they come through Delle, it's a 70 mile per hour. In fact the whole 34 mile run b... (more)
A little bit of a climb at Marblehead. The max speed drops to 55 with the curve and the climb.
With only about three BNSF trackage rights trains running each way a week, between Provo, Utah and Stockton California. When I learned this guy was heading west at a good time of day, I really wan... (more)
A westbound Spokane-Pasco manifest train passing an old wheat elevator at sunset.
BNSF ES44C4 7036 leads a westbound stack train across the Natural Crossover, just west of Frost on BNSF's Cajon Sub.
After a proceed signal is given an eastbound empty oil train begins to plow snow as it leaves the siding at Scenic.
After picking up the crew from a westbound grain train that tied down in Miami, a westbound stack train accelerates westbound on the Panhandle Subdivision enroute to a crew change in Amarillo
A quiet evening finds a father and son watching trains as the GE test train heads back west to the plant with a brand new BNSF locomotive leading the way.
A pair of GEs take stacks through Blue Cut. The name of this location derives from the unique color of the rocks found alongside the railroad right of way.
An SD40-2 and GP38-2 have arrived in East Moline to assemble a combine train to take east. The conductor is checking for car numbers.