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 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.