When Taft Ramp ceased handling intermodal, job Q170 went to the new Central Florida Intermodal Logistics Center down in Winter Haven....and maintained its call time, usually following Amtrak #92 n... (more)
a long train of West bound Grain loads led by a pair of BNSF ES44DC's, roll across the long causeway just West of the little town of Lyle, Washington. Lyle is towards the East end of the beautifu... (more)
Under typical monsoonal summer skies, two manifest freights meet at Bealville in the Tehachapi mountains on the Union Pacific's Mojave Subdivision.
With the Tehachapi mountains nearly behind it, a northbound BNSF manifest featuring quite an assortment of motive power coasts through Illmon located between Caliente and Bena. A big thanks to fel... (more)
UP 8045 South holds the siding at Bealville as a BNSF northbound BARPAS passes by on the main.
Can't beat this train for variety. One of the reasons to frequent Tehachapi Pass is that most of the BNSF manifests usually have everything but the kitchen sink for power. You won't find this in C... (more)
This Phoenix bound Z train glides through the horseshoe curve over Welch Rd between Williams and Ash Fork on the "Peavine".
GE's lead a Phoenix bound train around the horse shoe curve at Corva.
Being Black Friday the other half was shopping, I was able to head out and try my luck with the ever popular S curve at Lake Park. Not to be skunked, here an auto rack train makes its way east.
Grain empties for Sioux City, IA find a sucker hole in the clouds as the dymanics slow the train for a speed restriction.
A stiff wind kicks up lots of dust as a westbound loaded grain train meets the H-GFDBRC at the east end of Morris.
An eastbound BNSF stack train has just gotten the OK to proceed through a Form B at max speed. Here BNSF is laying a 3rd main line down just east of Kansas City.