Minutes before the sun peeks over the top of the ridge, a westbound loaded BNSF coal load approaches the signals at the west end of Tolland. Traditionally, coal loads on the Moffat head east. Howe... (more)
BNSF 6135 (ES44AC) crosses the Santa Fe Bridge in Larkspur, Colorado.
BNSF 6135 (ES44AC) passes over the Rio Grande bridge in Monument, Colorado.
BNSF 6135 (ES44AC) shoves a loaded coal train through Palmer Lake, Colorado, past people taking advantage of the cool water on a hot summer day.
Climate change in eastern Montana is alive and well as an eastbound coal train gets help from DPUs BNSF 6135 and BNSF 9258 rolling a mile east of Hathaway along the Yellowstone River valley. Sunbr... (more)
As severe storms move across Northwestern Minnesota, I was able to get some lightning action while staying dry. The storms were moving SW-NE and brought some very strong winds. It took many atte... (more)
With the United Farmers Cooperative loading a grain train in the distance. It is business as usual on the Ravenna. Here we witness matched consists of Gevo's as they meet one another. Another load... (more)
Coal empties roll westward through a heavy snowstorm at West Lucas.
BNSF coal empty goes over multiple humps as it works its way northwest to Wichita Falls.
The last few flakes of snow, which were left overnight, are dusted off by the Alma, WI empties.
This unit has since been renumbered to BNSF 1711. UPDATE: this unit was originally CB&Q 333, then BN 6135, here BNSF 6135, then BNSF 1711, and the latest is that it is now BNSF 1551, and ... (more)
BNSF 6135 Sitting on the Hump Track