The Los Angeles, CA to Chicago, IL high priority Z-train waste no time making track speed through Kingman Canyon as it hugs the canyon walls.

The hot Willow Springs, IL to San Bernardino Z-train climbs up the 1.5% grade of Yampai as the moon rises over the Audley Valley.

With large storm clouds build up over the low desert, UP 2723 leads a westbound manifest down Beaumont Hill, with EMDX 7241 3rd back.

The first train to be called out of Ash Fork in nearly 20 years in the Willow Springs, IL to Phoenix, AZ Z-train. Prior to this date, crews would operate from Phoenix to Winslow; nearly 300 mile r... (more)

BNSF's Southbound HSTOBAR rounds the horseshoe curve at Caliente in the late afternoon.

BNSF 6060 muscles a freight through a cut on the west side of the town of Keenesburg, Colorado.

A Hinkle to Pocatello manifest mounts the grade up the side of Telocaset Hill out of Union, Oregon.

A westbound freight behind four GE horses negotiates the crossover at Belvidere, NE on a warm August afternoon.

Dawn's first light catches BNSF 9265 (SD70ACe) waiting on a siding in Roggen, Colorado for a westbound freight to pass.

Four BNSF motors run elephant style past Barr Lake in Brighton, Colorado.

On a below freezing morning in Arizona's high country, BNSF 6998 West leads the hot Willow Springs, IL to Phoenix, AZ Z-train into Ash Fork. As of a day before this photo was taken, BNSF turned As... (more)

A westbound BELBAR charges out of Seligman with a set of elephant style GEs for power.

A Grand Junction to North Yard in Denver freight train pulls out of the siding at Fraser on the Moffat Tunnel Sub. The train had pulled into the siding to do work and maybe meet an empty coal trai... (more)

The Grand Jct to North Yard in Denver freight train rolls out of Tabernash on the Moffat Tunnel Sub. The train is working towards the continental divide at Moffat Tunnel, about 10 miles ahead. Thi... (more)

A Chicago, IL to San Bernardino, CA intermodal train descends down the Crookton Cutoff as it nears the half way point of the crew's 295 mile run across northern Arizona.