Railfanning On The BNSF Southern Transcon in Arizona Part 1 March 2024

When you are in Arizona and you are a railfan, you must spend time on the BNSF Transcon across the state. This line is deemed one of the busiest railroads on the continent. On average, there is 70 trains a day consisting of mixed freight, hot intermodal, international stacks, grain, oil, military and just about everything else. My dad and I did the Transcon from Williams AZ to the stateline at Toppock. Not to mention the famed Route 66 follows the transcon closely from Kingman to Crookton which makes it an amazing drive. It was also very windy the three days we were there so i you hear wind noise, please tune it out. Also some videos are pretty shaky so just be prepared. I hope you enjoy!
Location Williams AZ
Train 1: Westbound BNSF mixed freight H-GALBAR9-09A heading from Galesburg IL to Barstow CA with a H2 Dash 9 leading
Train 2: Westbound BNSF Stack train S-ALTLBE1-10A with a huge train in tow with 3 engines up front and 4 in the middle and a unusual horn for a GEVO
Location Crookton AZ Route 66 bridge
Train 3: Eastbound BNSF Grain train stating up from a red signal
Train 3: Eastbound BNSF intermodal train Z-SBDWSP8-11A with an awesome lashup of a H2, BNSF Ace and a CN unit trailing heading for Chicago IL from San Bernadino CA
Train 4: Westbound BNSF military train heading for Barstow CA for all of the tanks and vehicles to be worked on. Barstow is the repair shop for all of the vehicles
Train 6: Eastbound BNSF Grain Train X- FRSCBL-10G with a BNSF ACE Leading and a friendly crew heading for Councill Bluffs IA
Location Seligman AZ
Train 7: Eastbound BNSF Stack train filled with international stacks from Asia
Train 8: Westbound BNSF Intermodal train meets the eastbound in awesome light
Location Peach Springs AZ
Train 9: Eastbound BNSF hot intermodal train Z-LACWSP2-12U heading for the Chicago IL with Eight engines up front!
Train 10: Eastbound BNSF Stack train S-LBTMEM1-11K heading to Memphis TN with a giant train in tow
Location Hackberry AZ
Train 11: Eastbound BNSF Stack train with a H2 Dash 9 leading. Sadly I had to shoot this from the car
Train 12: Eastbound BNSF mixed freight train with an ACE leading. Again my dad was getting very cranky and he just wanted to get to Kingman. At least i got those two trains from the car
Location Kingman AZ
Train 13: Eastbound BNSF hot intermodal train with 9 engines up front!
Train 14: Westbound BNSF intermodal train with a huge train!

[@user-gr5gp3hf5g]

Is there anyboby in the dpu

[@Joeztrainz]

No. In fact the only cab that has people is the leading one

[@Michiganrailfan]

He is right

[@user-gr5gp3hf5g]

Is anyboby in dpu

[@Solo6R]

I don't think they typically crew DPU's No reason for it when you can remote control the DPU. Company would lose even more money having to crew them.