A patch of sunlight illuminates an empty coal train as the Portage de Sioux power plant provides a fitting background.
Like a steel and concrete monument to railroading’s past, Milwaukee Road’s abandoned Pacific Extension bridge crossing the Missouri River stands over the DPUs of a passing westbound BNSF grain... (more)
A short Edgemont to Denver freight works up Crawford Hill. This train was a nice break from all the coal.
BNSF 9219 & 9516 lead westbound empties.
Just west of Argentine on the BNSF Emporia Sub., a pair of ACes lead a coal load towards Westar Energy's Tecumseh Energy Center near Lawrence, KS, a former Kansas Power and Light facility, thus th... (more)
BNSF 9219 snakes its way through the landscape leading another re-route south toward Denver.
BNSF 9219 takes a ballast train out of Joliet
Northbound coal empties rush through the Greenland Open Space over some fresh ballast with Spruce Mountain in the background. It's an easy hike to reach the exposed rocks on the far right of Spru... (more)
northbound coal empties near Palmer Lake, CO
Two brand new locomotives on the point of this loaded unit coal train.
A former BN SD60M leads a UP SD9043MAC on the daily road switcher from Belt Ry. to Galesburg past the uniquely familiar Riverside water tower.
