The BN SD60M duo cranks it into run 8 as it departs west for Joliet, and eventually Galesburg.

Loaded coal train departing Missoula to head "down the river".

A pair of soon to be let go BNSF SD60M's in BN paint lead L-CHI102 through Hodgkins on their way to Joliet and Galesburg

Thundering under Interstate 294, BN SD60M's 8114 and 8117 lead the 102 local towards Galesburg, as seen from Leon Cook Road in Hodgkins.

UP 2413 gives off some smoke during a startup.

January 17 marks the anniversary of Operation Desert Storm in 1991. This image shows the patriotic SD60M BN painted for the occasion rolling back to Montana with coal empties from Superior, Wiscon... (more)

The daily BN Transfer from Northtown Yard waits at Hoffman for a clear track in Canadian Pacific's St. Paul Yard.

Loaded coal train, bearing little sign of the "BNSF", charges west.

L CHI102 highballs west through Lockport, with a BN SD60M leading the way, followed by a pair of BNSF B40-8W's and a B40-8 standard cab.

Approaching Silverwood on the Palmdale Cutoff, the UP's Mojave Flyer out of West Colton is making good time climbing the grade on Cajon Pass, and shortly the train will reach the high desert on th... (more)

Approaching Silverwood on the Palmdale Cutoff, the UP's Mojave Flyer out of West Colton is making good time climbing the grade on Cajon Pass, and shortly the train will reach the high desert on th... (more)

SD60M/DASH8-40C duo lug a 68-car, 2500ton Yermo to Hinkle drag freight around the alluvial hills decayed from old volcanic cinder cones near Bloom siding on the desolate Escalante desert.

A matched quartet of brand new EMD SD60Ms lead a Union Pacific ore train west on the D&RGW at Riverton.

A coal train climbs Crawford Hill, Nebraska, on July 7, 1996, and leading the train is an all-Cascade Green consist of two EMD SD60Ms and two GE C30-7s. This gentle horseshoe curve is below the mo... (more)

The BN Transfer from Northtown shoves back into Canadian Pacific's Dunn Yard. The reactivated SD60Ms are a welcome change from the normal Dash 9s usually assigned to this train.