A BNSF in H2 paint leads NS 279 west through Shawsville.
NS 13Z heads west through Wabun, VA with a BNSF leader.
About an hour before thunderstorms would arrive on this hot 95-degree afternoon, BNSF 4678 passes by the Kansas City Union Depot with a string of grain cars.
BNSF 4598 west with an Ash Train heads west towards Argentine Yard while a coal train from Juliette, GA/NS comes off the Fort Scott heading towards Murray.
BNSF assists DART to move four Stadler FLIRT's for DART from Salt Lake, UT to North Yard, Tx over the old Rio Grande main. The Stadler units would further be transported to Denton County Transport... (more)
It’s almost 6 p.m. on a cool Montana winter eve at Trout Creek on February 5, 2023. A trackside fire helps warm us up a bit as the “blue hour” descends upon the Clark Fork River Valley. The ... (more)
BNSF 6829 (ES44C4) snakes through the S curves with a string of gondola cars as it runs south on the Joint Line through Spruce, Colorado.
BNSF 6185 (ES44AC) waits for its turn in the fuel and sand service bay at the BNSF engine servicing facility in Denver, Colorado.
TULTEA headed towards Teague crosses a local at Gribble crossing at Royal lane, Dallas.
On a warm sunny evening, BNSFs Office Car Special rockets along the Mississippi River with a long train for Dilworth. There, BNSF personnel would board for Havre, MT.
A pair of GEs work their way south out of Denver on a power move.
BNSF 1899 SD40-2 waits for service at the BNSF engine servicing facility in downtown Denver.
BNSF 8415 (SD70ACe) is seen from the top of the mountain at Pinecliffe as it leads a coal train down the mountain on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.
BNSF 8475 (SD70ACe) leads a freight through Brighton, Colorado.
BNSF 9045 (SD70ACe) shoves a loaded coal train west towards Denver on the Brush Sub through Brighton, Colorado.
Late in the day, with their work done, a pair of power sets for locals have tied up for the day. Closest to us are BNSF GP39-2 2732 (ex-BN 2732) and GP38-2 2317 (ex-BN 2317, née-SLSF 462) and, o... (more)
Birmingham-Mobile #385 gets moving after meeting a northbound coming off the 3B District, passing the relatively large two story Alabama Great Southern RR Station.
At 6:27 a.m. on June 20, 2023, an eastbound BNSF manifest freight curves through Radium, Colorado, utilizing trackage rights on Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. In the foreground along... (more)
BNSF 8165 (ES44C4) leads an officer's special southbound on the Joint Line at Spruce, Colorado.
BNSF 7911 (ES44DC) gets ready to leave Denver while running south on the Joint Line.
BNSF 1093 (Dash9) leads a formation of Boeing 737 fuselages in a low-level mission.
The CSX transfer may have standard diesels, but at least the right of way is eco-friendly.
649 is on the point of a local freight waiting for a crew. The unit has been in service nearly 30 years plus milage.
Intermodal stack train from Long Beach, CA to Clovis, NM. This spot is a famous spot in Winslow, AZ where the railroad track runs parallel to I-40
Clean Stickers!
BNSF 4018 & 6695 westbound with a unit grain train.
An SD70MAC and SD70ACe shove on the rear of coal loads on the beginning of their run down the Pikes Peak Sub.
An EMD pair slowly pulls a loaded coal train out of Denver and cross Cherry Creek.
Westbound freight.
BNSF’s Laurel to Denver priority freight (HLAUDEN) exits 177-foot Tunnel 4 between the sidings of Dornick and Piper while negotiating Wyoming’s rugged Wind River Canyon on June 25, 2023.
BNSF 1093 (Dash9) leads two Boeing 737 fuselages through Littleton, Colorado on the Joint Line.
BNSF 4327 (Dash9) leads a coal train past the old Rollins Pass Mercantile store as it runs down the mountain towards Denver, Colorado.
BNSF 2718 (GP39-2) runs towards the Denver Yard for a day of sorting cars.
A pair of BNSF ES44C4's lead an empty grain train as it hustles east through Livingston, Montana after descending from Bozeman Pass. Meanwhile, a Montana Rail Link helper set eases out of the yard... (more)
Bealville, California A southbound BNSF manifest leaves Bealville, throttled up for the climb up the 2.2%+ grade ahead. The train has just met the Southbound stack train that can be seen ... (more)
A long hood forward Dash 9 leads lite power arriving at Denver.
A vehicle train begins their trip to the West Coast as they slowly run through Denver.
Worst Case Scenario. BNSF L-CHI663 clears up yard limits as it begins It’s trek to Eddysville with a rare veteran ATSF warbonnet B40-8W, 552 leading a BNSF GP39-3, 2867 along with another... (more)
Waiting for another train. I lucked into this BNSF movement of two Stadler FLIRT's for DART. They will make the trip from Salt Lake to Dallas over the old Rio Grande main.
Shiny paint and aluminum hoppers nicely reflect the early morning sun as BNSF EMD SD70ACe Nos. 9098 and 8557 lead a coal train over Logan Hill north of Bill, Wyoming, just after sunrise at 6:04 a.... (more)
The sounds of GE motors echo through Coal Creek Canyon as they work their train out of the Big 10 Loops and up the grade around Plainview, CO on Union Pacific’s iconic Moffat Tunnel Subdivision.... (more)
A short Northbound ZLPKSTO lead by BNSF 6060 works upgrade just out of Mojave.
BNSF 6216 leads the HSTOBAR into tunnel 3 at Bealville.
BNSF 9386 (SD70ACe) heads towards the engine servicing facility for fuel and sand.
A new crew arrives at BNSF 7911 (ES44DC) and will shortly heads south of Denver on the Joint Line.
BNSF 6917 (ES44C4) leads a short GEO train south on the Joint Line out of Denver, Colorado.
The sights and sounds of a summer thunderstorm have been silenced by the powerful roar of EMD and GE prime movers as they grind away on wet steel rail. Over 17,000 tons of North Antelope Mine coal... (more)
A loaded Comanche train grinds up the 0.6% grade of Keenesburg. The vast open landscape of the Brush Sub is on full display here as late summer thunderstorms forms in the background.
Black Thunder Mine, WY to Comanche XCEL Power Plant (Pueblo), CO coal train pulls out of the sag at Crest as it powers west across the open range of eastern Colorado.
Mid America Energy (Council Bluffs, IA) empties head west across the Sand Hill Subs towards Alliance and onward to the coal fields of the Powder River Basin.
A lone SD70MAC, sporting the BN executive paint scheme, brings up the rear of an empty coal train near Ellsworth, NE.
A PHL Dock Job yards an inbound BNSF stack train at Pier B Yard with a trio of GEs.
Quiet Sunday at Newcastle Yard.
Priority intermodal races east through Escalon Ca.
A BNSF GP50 and an HLCX GP38-2 back into the BNSF yard in Burlington, Iowa alongside the Mississippi River. This is the R CHI4681 11I, a local based out of Burlington that serves various industrie... (more)
Trinidad Hill An empty coal train slams upgrade against a tortured landscape. Volcanic Fire, Water and Sun have carved an other worldly landscape on the edge of the Cascade Mountain Rang... (more)
Z-NYCLAC nears the end of their cross country trek, rounding out the final miles on the triple track passenger main at Fullerton.
After the morning passenger train parade cleared up, Q-LACNSA had clear signals all the way from Hobart through Fullerton, where they're seen passing the station.
BNSF 4276 Leads BNSF’s OCS Operating As CPKC Train 31B-03 West At Semlin.
Right after the passage of BNSF’s Cowley turn in Himes Canyon, maintenance-of-way got track and time in the block so they could continue working on a washout that occurred in the middle of the c... (more)
BNSF EMD SD70MAC Nos. 8908 and 9624 power the Cowley turn through remote Himes Canyon just north of Himes, Wyoming, on the morning of June 26, 2023.
BNSF 9045 (SD70ACe) shoves a loaded coal train through the elevated curve of the Keenesburg Cut on the Brush Sub.
BNSF 7911 (ES44DC) leads an autorack train south out of Denver, Colorado and will take the Joint Line to Colorado Springs.
BNSF 6962 (ES44C4) waits to shove an oil can train down the Moffat Tunnel SUb through Rollinsville, Colorado.
DPUs from a BNSF manifest to Argentine Yard passes through the old Union Station area westbound.
BNSF Manifest preparing to head north over the Kansas River, and on towards Minnesota.
On a 95-degree hot afternoon, a BNSF Z Train heads west by the KC Union Station.
BNSF 3696 leads an Everett bound manifest over bridge 127.6 in the evening.
BNSF stacks bound for the Norfolk Southern pass through busy Fullerton California.
The BNSF 2023 Employee Appreciation Special rests between runs in Commerce, California.
Quality Intermodal stack train from Chicago, IL to San Bernardino, CA exits Abo Canyon, NM and curves towards Belen, NM for its next crew change.
BNSF Manifest towards Mojave at the famous Tehachapi loop. BNSF trains at the loop are aplenty.
BNSF 2302 & CN 4724 are doing some switching at the east end of Southwark Yard as they pull out cars for the Port of Montreal.
From what I understand, the Stockton to Provo BNSF trackage right trains only run about three times a week. And with that, the schedule is kind of all over the place. So when I stumble across one ... (more)
BNSF 7911 (ES44DC) races another southbound train as it runs on the Joint Line out of Denver, Colorado.
BNSF 8415 (SD70ACe) leads a freight through Pinecliffe, Colorado as it heads down the mountain on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.
A pair of RCL Dash 9s lead the Union Job through Rollins Avenue as they head back to Northtown with cars from the Minnesota Commercial. This is a remote control job, despite basically being a tran... (more)
A manifest heads east on the Wayzata Sub just before the area was hit by strong thunderstorms.
A stack train races alongside the Columbia River Gorge
BNSF 8165 (ES44C4) leads an officer's special train through Castle Rock, Colorado on the Joint Line.
BNSF 1093 (Dash9) brings two Boeing 737 fuselages through Palmer Lake on the Joint Line.
BNSF OCS descending the Cajon Pass
BNSF's Office Car Special races up the Mississippi River on its way to Dilworth.
BNSF 277 leads the southbound Everett to Roosevelt trash train south out of CP Ruston and into Nelson Bennett Tunnel.
Southbound Coal Drag crosses the Niles City Trestle with BNSF 6035 in the lead. BNSF is working on Double track project as the under construction bridge on the right nearest to the train is part o... (more)
It's a snowy day on southern California's Cajon Pass, but after climbing to the railroad's 3,775-foot summit, BNSF Railway train Q-LACLPC6-23L has broken through the clouds and found sunshine as i... (more)
