Led by a quartet of GE C44-9Ws, Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s Denver to Stockton manifest freight climbs out of Rocky, Colorado, on April 23, 2002. In the background sits an eastbound Union Pac... (more)
On a cloudy spring afternoon, an EX-Santa Fe GP60 is seen moving cars from track to track in Centralia, Illinois.
After waiting several hours for a train, I was rewarded with this five locomotive consist just below the Toston dam on the Missouri River. A few miles to the west, those extra locomotives will be... (more)
4830 leads classmate 4785 and GP50 3130.
A loaded coal train passes empties at the summit. Trailing units are an Oakway SD60 and two SD40-2s, EMDX 6305 and EMDX 6047.
Eastbound on the west end bridge. Trailing units are SD45B-2 5516, SD40E EMDX 6431 and Dash 9-44CW 744.
A set of power heads down to the south yard to collect coal empties.
Eastbound about to enter the canyon.
The Claremore local leaves town. Trailing units are GP15-1 1494, GP9B 1701, EMDX GP38-2 781 and GP38-2 2318.
BNSF 9647 the Celebration unit for the BNSF merger leads this XTY Coal train through Trinidad, CO with BN 9690 & BN 9659. This was a Texas Power coal train returning to the Powder River.
GE C30-7 5563 and an EMD SD45B-2 sit and wait for a crew at Bridgeport, Nebraska.
Eastbound merchandise.
BNSF619 leading an empty grain train bound to Juarez / El Paso border.
A short Guadalupe local rolls down the Santa Barbara Subdivision to Gemco yard in Los Angeles. New paving and new painted spaces for Rv parking along the ocean at the Rincon are underway for th... (more)
Coal empties bound for the Powder River Basin.
Several patched diesels sit in Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway’s Watson Yard, in Los Angeles’ Wilmington neighborhood. BNSF SD40-2 7847 was built in July 1978 (27 years earlier) as Color... (more)
A hot BNSF intermodal train runs through East Arkansas on it's way to Marion, Arkansas where there ws an intermodal yard on BNSF at the time in 1999 using an all AT&SF consist including the lead G... (more)
A quiet Saturday morning that still has some patchy fog hanging in the air finds a three-person crew performing some switching moves alongside the Blandin paper mill near downtown Grand Rapids, MN... (more)
The Greatness of Essex, Montana. Two helper sets idling away waiting for their next job. Then some local power with white face BN 2889 in the background.
Eastbound BNSF intermodal train descends from Tehachapi mountains and is about to arrive to Mojave yard
A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe ballast train slowly climbs the grade though Clay, Colorado, on April 28, 2002. On the point of the heavy train is a trio of SD70MACs, assisted by a pair o... (more)
A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe ballast train just finished rounding Big 10 Curve and is now passing the east switch of Clay, Colorado, on April 28, 2002. On the point of the heavy train ... (more)
Back in 2006, the BNSF was detouring these Granite City ore trains via Aurora. I don't remember exactly why, but I think it was a bridge issue or something? Either way, it was cool to see these he... (more)
An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight passes the west siding switch of Leyden while descending the Union Pacific’s former Rio Grande Moffat Tunnel Subdivision in Colorado on December... (more)
BNSF 4588 leads a grain train through Evaro on its way to Missoula, MT and points east.
Fifteen years ago today, a pair of BNSF DPUs gently help with braking duties downhill into Denver, headed ultimately back to the Powder River Basin with empty coal gons.
An eastbound BNSF manifest train catches the last light of the day near the Mississippi River in Missouri.
A Burlington Northern Santa Fe train, with a pair of Santa Fe GP7u locomotives (ATSF 2183 and 2124), brings six office cars of varying heritage through Santa Fe Junction and across the state line ... (more)
A westbound manifest with three different paint schemes.
On June 4, 2002, a trio of Burlington Northern Santa Fe EMD SD40-2s power a westbound BNSF train westbound over Marias Pass east of Bison, Montana.
