UP 8588 and a CSX mate rush a Boeing train of empty equipment east on Montana Rail Link at MP 55, Trout Creek, MT. Business is good at Boeing and "Boeing specials" are not uncommon on th... (more)

Southbound BNSF coal load climbing toward top of Palmer Divide adjacemt to Spruce siding on normal northbound only main #2

"Passing the Barn"

Southbound UP coal train climbing past Castle Rock

Montana Rail Link’s Laurel to Missoula manifest (LM) curves through Lombard Canyon, Montana, on September 15, 2012. EMD SD70ACe Nos. 4308 and 4312 power the train.

Intermodal trains used to be an easily seen occurrence in this portion of the line, but with Q144 heading through Memphis the past few years and Q145 running exclusively at night, intermodal is ha... (more)

Visiting KCS 4161 starts pulling BNSF's Laurel, MT to Pueblo, CO train South again after waiting for a train ahead.

On yet another cold frigid morning on the photographer's birthday, two BNSF "H3" schemed machines hustle another big oil 'downtown' for the Philly docks.

Snow, snow, and more snow. Exiting one of several snow squalls to blanket the Tri-State Area ahead of a massive polar vortex, westbound hotshot intermodal 233 with a grand total of fi... (more)

538 rolls under the bridge at Salina, PA

Southbound BNSF coal load led by new AC south of Monument

Ferromex led southbound empty BNSF grain train curving through Palmer Lake

"Lunch Break"

A new SD70AH leads the ISCLB down Cajon Pass on BNSF rails as it passes through Sullivan's curve.