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.

Cold weather brings air problems for H-GALMEM at Gibb siding. I never saw the conductor on the ground inspecting the train until I looked at the photos later in the day.

A quartet of GEs are in charge of an eastbound manifest pulling the grade east of East Glacier and the Two Medicine bridge as they approach the control point at Grizzly, MT. The mountains of Glaci... (more)

Rolling west through Basta toward the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach is a BNSF intermodal train. Santa Fe GP60 4021, not yet rebranded with BNSF reporting marks, teamed with an ATSF Dash 8-4... (more)