Eastboound manifest rolls along the Flathead River headed for Marias Pass.

Westbound CW local makes a spirited, smoky, and noisy departure from little Hartline, Washington, just after dawn on a chilly fall morning in 1980. The mix of seven F-units and GP's needed little ... (more)

After having spent much of the day negotiating a series of branchlines in northern Kansas, the crew of the Oberlin local is back on the mainline and making speed on the final miles back to the ter... (more)

If you like Cascade Green and SD40-2s then this is the train for you.

A Burlington Northern F45 rests at BN’s 31st Street roundhouse in April 1984. Showing signs of being “ridden hard and put away wet” so-to-speak, this locomotive, ordered by Great Northern but deli... (more)

Even though the date says it’s BNSF, its still is a Burlington Northern show on Crawford Hill on April 11, 1998. Five green GE and EMD products led by C30-7 No. 5535 are on the point of an eastbou... (more)

Beat up and begrimed, missing bits of its cascade paint, F9A 820 is every bit the road warrior as it rests at Auburn's former Northern Pacific roundhouse in the summer of 1979. An ex-Northern Paci... (more)

Locomotive inspector looks for worn wheels and other defects while giving a once-over to a set of F-units just off a Stampede Pass run. Fascinating to see the rust cancer which is eating at the ca... (more)

The view's a bit hindered by bug stains and oil drops, but here's the nose-to-nose view from one F9A to another as the CW Local switches at Coulee City, Washington.

An empty coal train whines along the Mississippi River south of Lynxville. This train was diverted off the north route for some reason and will be sent back to the coal fields via Galesburg and Li... (more)

A DOT instection car is pulled down the center of Mason Street while a BN hi-rail follows.

Easbound freight on a colorful Marias Pass in 1998. The Santa Fe paint added to the color.

Apparently, not all repainting of locomotives into Burlington Northern colors after the 1970 merger were true repaintings. . .witness the Lowey two-toned North Coast Limited side panels revealed d... (more)

It would take a lot more than bondo to repair the damage to ex-NP F7A 726 sustained in a collision/derailment at Sumas, Washington earlier in the year. . .so scrapping the locomotive was the only ... (more)