Taconite pellets hit the Casco main at Kelly Lake just out of the yard.
Literally coming 'round the mountain, BNSF 9844 with a westbound manifest negotiates the tight curve at Windy Point as it threads its way down the grade toward the Flathead River valley on the for... (more)
Out in the vast Mojave Desert on a late winter's day, this interesting westbound manifest came struggling up Ash Hill with a roundhouse full of power: Dash9s in BNSF and righteous Santa Fe marking... (more)
The solitude at Canyon Diablo is almost palpable - an entity that is at once overwhelming and eminently soothing. Only the rush of the wind disturbs the silence for awhile - until a thin silver li... (more)
A hotshot intermodal races west through Shelby passing the depot and elevators at the busy junction, chasing the setting sun about to dip below the Rockies. Soon enough it will be in the throes of... (more)
A four pack of warbonnets hustles through Willard, NM on a late winter's morning, having recently crossed the Manzano mountains on the long grade out of the Rio Grande valley. Now the landscape is... (more)
Cruising down the valley between Seneca and Thedford, NE, deep in the Sandhills of central Nebraska, a pair of SD70MACs lead a coal train across the meandering middle fork of the Loup River in cow... (more)
ATSF 672 in the company of a new Dash9, a BN GP40M and an ATSF SD40-2 brings an eastbound manifest down from Marias Pass, soon to depart the rarified atmosphere of the high country for the vastne... (more)
Heritage I unit 1094 is lookin' good with that wagon wheel logo as it leads a power consist including Oakway SD60s and BN GEs. The coal train is about halfway between East Glacier and Marias Pass ... (more)
Once upon a time, Powder River coal business exceeded capacity and both BNSF and UP struggled to keep up with the volume. That was then, and BNSF is still adding to the substantial fleet of SD70MA... (more)
Before the Super Fleet Dash8-40BWs arrived, AT&SF had a fleet of Dash8-40B standard cabs in the tasteful blue and yellow warbonnet scheme. Trailing the 7419 is one of predecessor BN's cabless B30-... (more)
Rolling through Kingman Canyon, the 656 West has just passed one of the old R2 color light signals that were in service across much of Santa Fe's territory. They began to disappear with the advent... (more)
BNSF 754 slams across the Hackberry Road crossing with one of the Transcon's ubiquitous intermodal trains. An LMX B39-8 of BN heritage and a Heritage I Dash9 join this power set. Versus the origin... (more)
Still wearing its original colors, BNSF #695 awaits its next local assignment.
A Burlington Northern Santa Fe Dash 9-44CW (718), a pair of ex-Santa Fe Dash 8-40CWs (877 and 895) and a Burlington Northern SD40-2 (6919) are in charge of hot intermodal train Z-SBDALT1-20, as it... (more)
Westbound BNSF 4459 is cresting the grade out of the Rio Grande River valley from Belen at Dalies, NM. The old main line via Raton and Albuquerque joins the Transcon here. Once upon a time, beauti... (more)
Sundown at Yampai Summit: BNSF 4926 is in charge of a westbound manifest struggling up the grade from Pica to Yampai with a colorful assortment of power in the setting sun. It's downgrade to the C... (more)
Destine for Camp Graying Michigan, L 300 stops in Battle Creek for a brief Crew Change. The train is just leaving the South Bend Sub and getting onto the Flint sub as it heads for the Lake State R... (more)
The yellow sign reads, Radio controlled locomotives operate in this area. Crewless BNSF no.2684 with a movement of empty gondolas for the East marginal Yard in the Seattle Industrial area.
The eastbound BNSF morning Z with SD70ACe No. 8431 leading, leaves Home Valley and hustles along the Columbia River making good time.
Three EMDs, all sporting different paint schemes, race through the cornfields of rural Illinois along BNSFs Southern Transcon. Always nice to see BN green shining in the evening light.
The evening Seattle stack flies along the Mississippi River with four of BNs attention grabbing GEs up front… seen here from the Mississippi Palisades State Park.
Eastbound BNSF grainer with BNSF C44-9W no. 4640 leading hustles through Cook Siding on the clear.
Sunrise on a cloudless morning on the Fallbridge Subdivision. Westbound BNSF manifest with ES44DC No. 7623 leading races along the the Columbia River between Cooks and home Valley.
A Roberts Bank, BC to Spring Creek Mine, MT coal empty glides under 10781 foot Mt Baker on its journey to get reloaded in the Power River Basin. Due to unusual triple digit temperatures int he Pac... (more)
NB morning manifest.
A westbound BNSF Z with ES44C4 No. 8331 on the headend, leads through Cook Washington.
Along the Columbia River Gorge at sunrise on the Fallbridge Subdivision a loaded westbound Coal move rolls into Home Valley Wa.
Was not expecting a BNSF train to pull into Dunsmuir this morning for a crew change but here is ES44C4 no.7139 and a southbound grainer.
