Early on a chilly November 2023 morning, a westbound JB Hunt intermodal train rumbles below the bluffs of the Llano Estacado as it makes its way west through the Red Deer Creek Valley near Miami, Texas.
The Gods of Rain pummel the land and all those who venture across it. This eastbound BNSF train tops the grade out of the Canadian River Valley a Coburn, Texas, as a vicious thunderstorm pounds the Panhandle of Texas.
The Gnarled Guardian of The Plains. An old cottonwood tree stands guard over the BNSF Transcon as an eastbound stack train passes through Lipscomb County, Texas on a fine Spring morning in 2025.
On a summer dusk, a fast BNSF train rolls westbound over the Canadian River at Canadian, Texas.
A Winter full moon over an ancient wooden trestle south of Canyon, Texas on the BNSF Plainview sub.
A northbound empty coal train rolls over the old wooden trestle near Canyon, Texas on the Plainview Sub.
As the November moon rises over Plainview, Texas, the throb of idling GEs fills the air at the Producer's Grain elevator.
A dusty beam of light casts down into the valley of Dry Dugout Creek as the evening sun slips over the Del Norte Mountains of West Texas on a chilly December 2021 afternoon. The thugga-thugga-thugga-thugga sound of GEs laboring with a heavy train fills the valley as they roll into the curve at Lenox siding west of Marathon along Union Pacific's fabled Sunset Route.
An early morning haze settles over the Glass Mountains of West Texas. The Sunset Route is quiet
A Summer 2024 afternoon sees a massive thunderstorm pounding the Marfa Plateau as the eastbound Sunset Limited rolls past the old cattle pens at Ryan, Texas.
On a hot Summer 2021 afternoon the eastbound Sunset Limited speed across the high desert west of Marfa, Texas.
With the Chiricahua Mountains in the background, a westbound Union Pacific stack train rolls across the high desert west of Willcox, Arizona on a pleasant February 2021 afternoon.
Low clouds loom over the Chiricahua Mountains of southern Arizona as an eastbound Union Pacific intermodal train rolls across the Willcox Playa on a cold February 2021 afternoon.
A February sunset sees westbound containers rolling through Cochise, Arizona as the train climbs towards Dragoon Summit on the Sunset Route.
On a hot June 2020 afternoon, an eastbound Union Pacific stack train passes across the wheatfields near Plains, Kansas as it rolls up the former Rock Island Golden State Route.
A beautiful Summer 2025 evening finds all is quiet on the Golden State Route as the sun sets behind the Samson of the Cimarron bridge over the Cimarron River east of Liberal, Kansas
A June 2020 dusk settles over southwestern Kansas as a short train rolls east on the Cimarron Valley Railroad's former ATSF Manter Branch.
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