GM/EMD delivered all SD70MAC locomotives to Burlington Northern/BNSF with the GM HTCR truck. This radial bolsterless truck features three axles, and three traction motors. A truck that has bolster... (more)

The former Northern Pacific depot in Ellensburg is currently being restored and rehabilitated as a BNSF manifest train rolls through town. More detail on the restoration can be found here: more)

A Blomberg "M" type truck on a BNSF GP38-2. The Blomberg "M" type truck is based off of the Blomberg "B" type truck, which has been in service since 1938. The first locomotive that used the "B" ty... (more)

A trio of C44-9CW's lead an empty grain train on the Stampede Subdivision at 50 miles per hour. The old MILW bridge over the current line can be seen in the distant background.

Although the temperature is 28 degrees, the sun still shines down on this eastbound empty grain train in Ellensburg.

One of BNSF's track geometry trains sits in Ellensburg Yard overnight before traveling west over Stampede Pass and eventually to Everett. The "Business End" of this train can be seen here: more)

The business end of a Track Geometry train, BNSF 87 "Skagit River" measurement car sits quietly on a cold spring night. This car would head west the next morning measuring the track over Stampede ... (more)

The DPU for the daily empty grain train just glides by nearly completing it's first leg of a long journey back into the Midwest. Ellensburg is the eastern crew change point for the Stampede pass l... (more)

BNSF C44-9W #4129 waits at West Siding Switch Ellensburg for a crew overnight. The full moon along with some key lighting of a LED flashlight and a 430EX II flash bring out the details in the murk... (more)

BNSF 4129 sits with the M-PASVBT1-08A waiting for a red signal and a crew in order to pull it over Stampede Pass.

On the Stampede Pass Line. The crew is at lunch, probably across the road at BUZZ INN Steakhouse and Lounge. Note where the crew parked the train. Right on the mainline. That speaks to the traff... (more)

Arriving at Ellensburg there's work to do.

With their train cutoff behind them, the power of a manifest slips back to the mainline through the crossover. The hogger watches for hand signals from the trainman, in those days "radio equipped... (more)

Stampede Subdivision

Rolling along the Yakima River.