At Jacksonville, there is this cool depot was built by the Chicago and Alton back in the days. Jacksonville was on the C&A's old Kansas City to Chicago mainline. The C&A's tracks went to the east ... (more)
The snow is falling fast and BNSF 9279 (SD70ACe) highballs it while leaning through the elevated Hudson Curve on the Brush Sub.
During the early “rainbow”period of the BNSF, a westbound with a colorful consist skirts the then new intermodal yard on a crisp January day. Metrolink has now become a big player in the valle... (more)
BNSF's South Seattle-Chicago Z train heads east across MRL, in wonderful 5 degF temperatures. Quite the contrast to to the day where I had started in south Texas in the low 70's.
Power lingers on a crisp January afternoon.
Coal loads snake through the central MN trees as they head east for Superior, WI.
Earning their keep and working hard, these EMDs are bringing coal to Superior, WI.
The dry slot of a cut-off low pressure system worked its way over The Forks today, nicely illuminating empty Cohasset coal southbound. More at Railroad: BNSF RailwayLocomotive: EMD SD60MLocation: Grand Forks, North Dakota, USALocomotive #: BNSF 9279Train ID: E-COBBSMPhoto Date: April 19, 2006
An eastbound coal empty descends the east slope of Mullan Pass on the Montana Rail Link.
BNSF 9279 with BN scheme