BNSF's test train pulls to the stop near the west end of Timpas siding before reversing east on another data collection run on the old Santa Fe. One must respect the will of the railroad builders... (more)
Clean paint glints the low Colorado sunlight well as the BNSF test train is switched in preparation for the next day's activities.
Low morning light filters over the horizon at Timpas before the test train sets out for the day. An original ATSF station sign outlives the depot, water tank, and other railroad structures at Timp... (more)
The sunlight has eroded, but the lettering on the EMDX 1212 picks up the remaining light quite well. EMDX 1212 will be back at it tomorrow on Raton Pass.
The crew of the D TRITRI orchestrates turning the EMDX 1211 and 1212 on the wye at French, NM. Here, the York Canyon Subdivision joins the rest of the BNSF network. In better times the high qualit... (more)
BNSF's test train pulls east into the siding at Timpas to clear up for the evening, it's headlight reflecting against the classic AT&SF pole line, amazingly still in use in 2013.
The vastness of the American west is apparent in this scene as BNSF's test train plies the rails of the lightly used Raton Sub as it heads east out of remote Timpas on yet another SD70ACe-P4 evalu... (more)
EMDX 1212 and the BNSF test train idle at dusk at remote Timpas, CO, shutting down after a long day of work on the lightly used Raton Sub to make way for Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief.
BNSF's R&D train to evaluate EMD's newest SD70ACe variant, the P4, holds the siding at lonely Timpas, CO, waiting for Amtrak's Southwest Chief to pass by before heading out on the main for a day o... (more)
