ATSF 139 leads an A-A-B-B consist of Superfleet scheme GP60Ms/GP60Bs on a 199 train, Santa Fe's hottest westbound trailer train between Chicago and Los Angeles. It's crossing the Vermillion River ... (more)

The BNSF YWAT2041 Relief Job subs for the First Watson job on weekends and is seen here on Saturday, December 2, 2023, climbing Monoco Hill in Lawndale, returning from Chevron in El Segundo, passi... (more)

This was a special day for ATSF 104 as it was assigned to an employee appreciation passenger special making runs east from Joliet. Here it has arrived at Union Station, temporarily blocking Metra ... (more)

A Superfleet powered TOFC train heads east toward Chicago with a quartet of mixed GP60Ms & GP60Bs crossing farmland near Kinsman, IL.

ATSF 128 makes good time through Coal City, IL on its race from Kansas City to Chicago. The power is an A-B-A set in Super Fleet red & silver, among the most impressive sights in railroading in 19... (more)

WLMNTW works hard on its way east to Minneapolis with a trio of older EMDs for power.

Power for the Boron local about to begin switching duties at Boron.

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On February 1, 2019, BNSF’s Chewelah Turn is powered by a notable set of EMD locomotives as it heads through the snow-covered landscape approaching Deer Park, Washington. ... (more)

BNSF’s Chewelah Turn approaches Yardley at Spokane, Washington, on October 11, 2018. the train is almost finished with its run from after interchanging trains with Progressive Rail’s St. Paul ... (more)

Passing through Napa Street, BNSF’s Chewelah Turn approaches Yardley at Spokane, Washington, on October 6, 2018. Powered by an impressive A-B-B-B-B-A set of EMD locomotives—GP60M No. 105 leadi... (more)

A pair of BNSF GP60Ms (known as GP60M-3s by the railway), 142 and 149, switch the La Mirada Yard. The 149, facing away, is the former Santa Fe 149, but BNSF 142 has a less straightforward history... (more)

Rolling at track speed, these two former Santa Fe relics, now in swoosh scheme, head back towards Amory after having worked Columbus.

Not the first time I've photographed an A-B-B-A-A set of GP60's, but definitely a first on a freight in Washington in BNSF H3 Paint.

You never knew what you were going to get for a power consist in the years following the big mergers of the 90s. UP or C&NW leaders were the norm for UP trains between Ogden, Topeka and Chicago ac... (more)

BNSF Railway local R-CAL0151-29I, the "San-Jac Roadswitcher," has completed their work in eastern Riverside (railroad "east," that is, as it is on the north side of the city) a... (more)