Coal empties for the Spring Creek Mine descend Mullan Pass on MRL's 3rd Sub.

BNSF ES44DC 7803 departs Main #2 at Austin with an empty coal train.

BNSF No. 7803 is leading a Northbound Q train as it heads through Greenland

Three more Metrolink F125s are on their way to Metrolink’s Keller Yard in downtown Los Angeles, as BNSF train J-SXRLAC9-14 ferries SCAX 925, 941 and 906 from the EMD plant in Muncie IN to LA. T... (more)

There is a stranger in the UP's North Yard.

With the shadows becoming longer and longer as they sun sets, westbound Memphis, TN to Thenard (Port of Los Angeles) CA stack train rumbles down the Crookton line change into Seligman.

A eastbound BNSF Q train passes underneath the last remaining ex-ATSF Cantilever signal bridge on the BNSF transcon in the southwest at West Needles,CA on 2/26/12.

A east bound BNSF vehicle train has changed crews and is seen departing Wishram, Wa. in the scenic Columbia River Gorge.

Heading into the morning sunshine at Klinefelter, near the roadside honey vender along US 95.

The older cantilever signal bridge and targets at West Needles still remain, but for how long? Ditch lights are switched off from a meet which occurred minutes earlier.

Stacks rolling into Arizona at the border with California across the 1944 vintage AT&SF double-tracked trestle.

The sound of the rail tingling let me know that this stack train is approaching. Also the sound of a 76 Chevy Camper special engine roaring in the background let me know that my dad has gotten stu... (more)

2 EMD's lead a baretable train past the City of Commerce Metrolink station.

BNSF 7803 South runs aruond a vehicle train at the south end of Lake Wanda. The latter will use the UP's Midlothian Sub to head for Houston.