A string of special fire fighting tank cars sit in the BNSF engine servicing facility yard in Denver, Colorado.

GE ES44DC 7685 leads an eastbound manifest at Modesto Ca.

BNSF 7685 leads an eastbound merchandise train on the UP Moffat Sub, at Blue Mtn Crossing, between Plainview and Clay, CO, on Jan 4, 2019.

This stack train is coming down the hill after just passing through Marceline, Missouri.

Large snowflakes continue to fall in Valentine/ Crozier Canyon as a heavy Q-train battles up the grade of Yampai, passing the old school house that was built in 1924 and closed in 1936.

BNSF runthrough Q18309 passes a waiting NS GE23 as it returns to Fairburn, GA after swapping connecting Charlotte/Jacksonville traffic at Hulsey Yard. This train originated in San Bernardino, CA ... (more)

In the late afternoon a Portland, Oregon bound Z train rounds the bend at Wind Mountain as it approaches the community of Home Valley along the north bank of the Columbia River.

7685 is passing over a large fill near Marceline on the BNSF Marceline Sub.

The BNSF tracks run down the middle of Atwood Street with five crossings through the neighborhood. Longs Peak Avenue and 3rd Avenue are the only crossings with gates and lights. Here at Longs Peak... (more)

The setting sun glints off the sides of a southbound manifest train on a dusty afternoon at Sandcut.

Nikon D2x, 18mm

U.S. economical woes are represented on this BNSF Z train in early 2009, but nonetheless it makes for a pretty sight at Essex sprinting across the high desert toward Barstow on the Needles Sub.

A winter evening in the desert finds a westbound shooter approaching the National Trails Hwy. overpass as sunset approaches on the BNSF Needles Sub.