BNSF intermodal train bound for Los Angeles, accelerating out from Barstow yard

BNSF 8025 (ES44C4) leads the hi-balling Z Train through Wiggins, Colorado on the Brush Sub.

Z-LACMEM heads through Atwood with a 4 pack of GEs on the head end.

Corona Bridge
A mixed span of open and plate deck bridges still grace the mainline across the High Plains of Colorado near Wiggins. Eastbound priority Z flies over the span at track... (more)

ZDENCHI at Keenesburg
Priority leans out of the curve west of Keenesburg.

Track Speed at East Roggen
Priority Z slams the points at MP. 495.1 at track speed on its way to Chicago with Holiday express I’m sure!

Under a bright sunrise, BNSF 8557 (SD70ACe) leads an empty coal through Fort Morgan on the Brush Sub.

BNSF 8025 (ES44C4) leads a fast stack train over a bridge east of Wiggins, Colorado on the Brush Sub.

BNSF 8025 (ES44C4) runs eastbound on the Brush Sub and leaves Roggen, Colorado in the rear-view mirror.

Rock Cut: Nearing the final hours of the day, just outside Flagstaff, a lower priority BNSF intermodal train grinds up a short but steep grade and through a rock cut, as it heads West.

Volcanic Landscape: With the sun low in the sky, one of BNSF's seemingly never-ending intermodal train, races West towards LA's Pacific ports. Flagstaff's geography is dominated by many cin... (more)

It was a day of eastbounds, which worked to our advantage on the ex-NP Jamestown Sub but hosed us in the afternoon on the ex-GN KO Sub. A Glendive, MT to Northtown, MN key train brings up the rea... (more)

A brand new BNSF ES44C4 is wandering strange lands as it emerges from Montgomery Tunnel on the former Norfolk & Western mainline. The train is just about to complete its climb up Christiansburg Hi... (more)

You can find the old and the new working together in the BNSF Denver Yard. Here we see BNSF 8025 (SD40-2) still in the 1970's BN Cascade Green paint teamed up BNSF 2257 (GP38-2) in the newest Heri... (more)

BNSF 8025 (SD40-2) works humping a string of cars in the Denver Yard. This engine has since been either sold or renumbered as an ES44C4 now uses that number.