With storm clouds looming overhead, a peek of sunlight illuminates WAMX 3946, a former Union Pacific GP39-2 that, despite being weather-beaten and worn, still proudly wears UP Armour Yellow. Now w... (more)

A pair of BNSF yard locomotives sit in the middle of Whitefish Yard while a grain train holds the main.

After shoving the ballast train just north of downtown Franklin, the crew now works back into town as they pass the historic Franklin Railroad Depot.

The Jefferson Connection is in its last months of operation and of its very existence as a southbound detour train around Belden Hill enters that Former Erie main line at Lanesboro, Pennsylvania. ... (more)

As summer comes to a close, 663 runs down Hillsboro after taking Cornelius Pass.

Hot on the heels of an empty garbage train, BN's Bingen/Home Valley heads west along the Columbia River back to Vancouver, Washington.

A Burlington Northern GP39-2 and GP30 car body now a GP39M are in charge of a train on Stevens Pass.

Shoving back from Edinburgh to the north end of Franklin, this ballast train works it's way toward their work point. Once reaching the industrial facility on the north end of town, they will begi... (more)

M-CHIGAL waits before reversing out of GM Yard.

BNSF 2720 heads east with BNSF 2846 in tow towards Eola Yard in Aurora, IL. On the westbound trip the bluebonnet will take the lead.

A trio of three year old GP39-2s prepare for departure to Bieber. In summer 1984, there was still a fair amount of Inside Gateway traffic to turn over to Union Pacific.

BNSF St. Cloud local power sits in the former GN St. Cloud Yard.

BNSF 2778 started life in 1975 with the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe as a GP39-2. It has lost its Bluebonnet paint scheme and has been assimilated into the Heritage III BNSF Borg collective.

A former Santa Fe bluebonnet geep leads M-CHIGAL west through Lockport.

Free of freight interference due to a derailment east of Williston, an overpowered local rockets westward through Trenton trying to stay ahead of an Amtrak train that has just been turned at Willi... (more)