On the outskirts of Gallup NM is an eastbound BNSF Railway freight led by BNSF Dash 9-44CW 5156 and Norfolk Southern SD70ACe 1173. (Mentmore, New Mexico – March 19, 2024)

Pond is an unincorporated community in California's Kern County, in the agricultural San Joaquin Valley. It is located 8.5 miles (14 km) north of Wasco. Pond was established around 1889, and a p... (more)

A BNSF Railway light engine movement traverses the shoofly around the construction of the Highland Avenue overpass, which will eliminate yet another grade crossing – the last one in an eight-mil... (more)

The grade crossing at Rosecrans and Marquardt in Santa Fe Springs sees an estimated 135 trains (a mix of BNSF freights and Amtrak and Metrolink passenger trains) and 45,000 highway vehicles per da... (more)

A westbound BNSF intermodal train rolls through Basta, the location where Union Pacific’s Anaheim Branch crossed the Santa Fe’s Third District, which these venerable cantilever signals protect... (more)

At last light, a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway* freight makes its way along the BNSF’s St. Paul Sub as it heads to the Dayton Bluffs Yard. Of the four locomotives, there is but one safet... (more)

Having conquered the crossing of the Tehachapi Mountains, a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway double-stack train descends into Mojave as it continues its journey south. The power for this trai... (more)

BNSF Railway 3GS21C-DE 1313 heads east at the Commerce Diesel Facility to pick up an intermodal well car in order to shove it back to Hobart Yard. Contrary to what is stated on the book BNSF R... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Dash 9-44CW 1006 leads its train as it exits Tunnel 10 and threads its way around the many curves at Marcel, just uphill (railroad east) from the Tehachapi Loop, on Ju... (more)

An eastbound BNSF Railway coal empties sits in the West Bottoms section of Kansas City as a westbound BNSF intermodal train comprised of RoadRailers, Q-KCKSAG1-06A, passes by. BNSF SD70MACs 9979 ... (more)

Heading south over the Tehachapi Mountains is an eastbound BNSF Railway train with a visiting Norfolk Southern Dash 9-40CW on the point. NS 9378 is leading BNSF SD40-2 6932, ATSF Dash 9-44CW 648,... (more)

An eastbound BNSF Railway intermodal train bisects the intersection of Rosecrans and Marquardt in Santa Fe Springs, California. This is a busy grade crossing, as in the short time I was there on ... (more)