Passing Through America’s Oldest City

Florida East Coast train 107 (an intermodal train heading from Jacksonville to Miami) traverses the S-curve in Saint Augustine, Florida, on Augu... (more)

Sunrise on the Fallbridge Subdivision. The morning eastbound BNSF Z heads into the rising sun.

Shortly after arriving from the FWWR Hodge Yard BNSF 3827 sits at the head end of the annual Make-a-Wish Foundation train. Over the next couple hours kids will board the train before heading south... (more)

An eastbound BNSF grain train crosses Bridge 50 at Trout Creek, Montana, on a snowy February 26, 2017.

The first light of the morning sun makes an eastbounder glow as it approaches Bucklin, Missouri.

BNSF 3819 leads an oil train northwest out of Lombard Canyon on its way to Helena, MT and the West Coast.

Daytime Freight on the Coast Line

BNSF Railway train H-SDGBAR1-22 (High Priority Merchandise - today it is all autoracks - heading from San Diego to Barstow) crosses Santiago Creek a... (more)

A very off schedule BNSF freight heads up the Surf Line at San Clemente behind a pair of Tier 4 GEs. Westbound freights typically pass through here in the late evening hours, but today's train off... (more)

An E/B BNSF autorack train with a KCS trailing passes through the tiny town of Verona, Illinois where some remaining ATSF searchlights still stand. With looming PTC deadlines, their replacements a... (more)

I took off for work with the sole intent to catch this shot...I was looking to get the sun in it, but I was happy with the beautiful sunset. In this shot, an Eastbound stack train is approaching ... (more)

New BNSF GE 3959 leads a Q train upgrade at Berne, WA as it curves to head into the east portal of the Cascade Tunnel. The top of the grade on Stevens Pass is just inside the east end of the tunne... (more)

Late evening along the Metrolink San Gabriel Subdivision just west of BNSF's San Bernardino yard finds the Barstow to Kaiser Yard manifest with a trio of brand new 3700 class GE's, as it's about t... (more)

BNSF's Barstow to San Diego manifest freight makes it's San Bernardino set out at Rana with 3 brand new ET44C4's on the head end.