Out of a Montana afternoon comes the 1094 West leading Oakway SD60s and BN C30-7s as they urge a coal train into the grade toward Marias Pass. A pair of Essex helpers are on the rear. Fuji Astia.

A lite power set crosses the UP in Fremont, NE. The BNSF merger had already defiled the warbonnet scheme, as the SD75Ms had their super fleet 200 series numbers bounced to the 8200s with a gaudy p... (more)

BNSF 3896 South Rolls Over Bridge 127.6 At Golden Hour.

BNSF 7958 leads a tank train up the west side of Bozeman Pass.

CSX M533-08 coming through the rip-rap into Downtown Nashville this evening with BNSF 716 leading. Still supporting the Red and Silver AT&SF paint scheme with “Santa Fe” still retaining in th... (more)

Chugwater arrival
On the clear afternoon of May 30, 1998, a southbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight arrives at Chugwater, Wyoming. The train is powered by a pair of EMD locomoti... (more)

On the Orin Line in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin a southbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train passes a small, abandoned homestead just north of Reno Junction on June 30, 2002.

Surrounded by the snow capped San Bernardino Mountains an eastbound BNSF stack climbs uphill towards the Summit of Cajon Pass.

The Big Mac in the Executive paint scheme of the fallen flag Burlington Northern in a rare move leading a Coal train (EBMDOL0) "Loaded coal from Eagle Butte Mine to Donnie,TX", is tied... (more)

BNSF 4025 leads the Denver to Provo, UT mixed freight train westbound into Plainview, Colorado as it battles the 3% grade all the way up until the the Moffat Tunnel, here it is just seconds before... (more)

Brand-new Burlington Northern Santa Fe EMD SD70MAC No. 9840 makes its first revenue run down Colorado’s Joint Line at Greenland on a cold December 11, 1997. Weird to think that orange paint was ... (more)

Sand loads rolling south along the Mississippi River.

A westbound oil train passing under the bluffs formed by the Mississippi River, which was once three miles wide near this location.

At 8:20 a.m. the morning of September 1, 2003, Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s V KCMPTL 29 blows by the mile 207.2 semaphores at Donlan, Montana. In the left seat of this former Santa Fe GP50 is... (more)

An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight crosses Cedar Creek Trestle east od Superio, Montana, on July 3, 2001. Leading the train is recently-repainted SD60M No. 9299 (former BN “Desert... (more)