GN 562 in Big Sky Blue handle home built caboose X-1 and a classic GN caboose along with a string of ore jennies at Allouez Yard 6 months after the BN merger. The jennies include a somewhat rare j... (more)

BN F45 no. 6620 leads two SD45s and a GP30 on an eastbound freight stopped at Skykomish, WA for the addition of helpers. Soon the train will climb through the Cascade Tunnel and head to Wenatchee,... (more)

Southbound BNSF baretable train using UP trackaga rights near Chiloquin

Southbound BN coal train climbing Crawford Hill

Two BN geeps lead the WIM Local east at milepost 2 on the WI&M subdivision. The train is still in Washington State, but as it passes the photographer it will enter Idaho.

A BN empty coal train crests Angora hill grade 22 miles south of Alliance, NE powered by nine locomotives, 7 GEs, and 2 EMDs. The train is headed for Alliance and the north entrance to the Powder ... (more)

BN 5700 East meets a westbound in the hole at Merritt. Note the SDP45 in the westbound's consist.

In the mid-1970s, Southern Pacific borrowed a batch of Burlington Northern SD40-2s and RCC cars (converted F7Bs) in order to test the Locotrol systems installed in them. The tests must have been ... (more)

BN 5499, one of only three B32-8s on the railroad rolls up to the signal at Edmonds, WA. The Great Northern double tracked most of its mainline between Seattle and Everett, but left three short si... (more)

BN 2701 and two more GP39-2s rolls a westbound intermodal freight across the Clark Fork at its namesake city in eastern Idaho. The train is headed for Spokane with traffic for Spokane, Seattle and... (more)

A quartet of SD40-2s have a manifest well in hand as it rolls west around the big bend in the Yellowstone River about 8-10 miles east of Livingston, MT on a sunny July 1, 1986. By October 1987 thi... (more)

A BN coal train eases into Alliance, NE after a trip over Crawford Hill. One of BN's three leased SD60s, featuring the tiger stripe scheme, leads the all EMD consist. Note the fuel tender on board... (more)

BN train 3, once known as the Pacific Zip, bends around a curve through the rock outcroppings just west of Deception Creek, high up in the ewst slope of the Cascade Mountains near Scenic. This tra... (more)