With the summit of the Palmer Divide only a couple of miles away, a heavy loaded ballast train from Cheyenne, WY to Pueblo, CO only has to battle gravity for a little longer as the sound of GE pri... (more)
On the Arizona Divide: BNSF 7834 leads a westbound approaching Williams Jct., AZ. Fuji Velvia.
Sand loads rolling south along the Mississippi River.
BNSF 7834 (ES44DC) pushes through a strong snowstorm to deliver a container train to the intermodal facility in Denver, Colorado.
BNSF 7834 (ES44DC) runs towards Denver on the Brush Sub, passing through Keenesburg, Colorado during the worst part of the blizzard that walloped the Front Range.
The passage of time has treated what were once the two primary methods of traversing the southern United States very differently. The railroad, affectionately known as the Transcon, has nev... (more)
The fog that greeted us when we arrived is gone, but Lake Ashtabula is smooth as glass as an eastbound charges across the bridge.
Looks like this one got punched in the nose
Intermodal Stack Train from Tacoma, WA (Pierce) - Chicago, IL (Cicero Yard) heads east out of the yard. (Canon EOS20D, 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM)
BNSF Eastbound Ballast Train at Klinefelter, Ca. on BNSF'S Needles Sub with a quartet of SD40-2'S for power with the lead unit in Heritage 1 paint & the other 3 in BN Cascade Green paint