Gloomy Sunday Dawn | As the heavily-clouded sky grows lighter on the rainy morning of Sunday, May 18, 2025, an empty CPKC coal train heads north across the Illinois River near Watts, OK.
BNSF 6406 & 5922 with eastbound loads.
BNSF 6406 leads a grain train over the Neches River and past the Port of Beaumont on a sunny Texas afternoon.
A newer, non-faded ES44AC leads an EMD veteran along with a full load of black diamonds south toward the U.S. Air Force Academy and Colorado Springs.
The three faces of BNSF Heritage paint stare down an ACe at Academy siding. The coal loads were on the main, so I can't use the term "an ACe in the hole," but still, they had to wait patiently as... (more)
