SCHILBE heading West through the large grain elevator complex in Ransom, Illinois.
BNSF 4111 with a MOW rock train takes the siding to allow BNSF ES44DC No 7784 to pass with a grain train for the port of Vancouver WA.
A westbound BNSF rock train with C449W No 4111 leading comes to a stop in Washougal WA for the weekend.
BNSF C44-9W no. 4111 stops on the siding at Washougal WA. with a Herzog Ballast train for a couple days of Ballast work.
A full Herzog gravel train takes to the siding at Washougal WA. Lead by BNSF C44-9W no 4111, the engine reflex's in the pools of water from the recent rains.
Westward Bound - With the Ship Mountains for the back drop, a westbound stack train crests the Cadiz grade out of the Essex Valley and starts the decent into Amboy California.
Four Ball n Three Aces - With the Ship Mountains for the back drop, a westbound stack train crests the Cadiz grade out of the Essex Valley and starts the decent into Amboy California.
GE's lead a 61 car Everett, WA to Barstow, CA BNSF trackage rights train over the Rock Creek Trestle.
Tatyana and the brakemen from the SPO-EVE engage in idle chit-chat about how they like to spend the last days of summer as the rest of the crew waits for the dispatcher to give them the switch. I'... (more)
A colorful consist heads west with grain loads from Brunswick, NE. That bright blue third spot back is a newly painted ex Soo Line SD60.
Beautiful spring day with a near perfect blue sky.
BNSF 4111 holding for clearance to proceed.
