Fast times on the BNSF transcon. Two westbounds pass the Streator, Illinois station.
An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight rolls eastward through East Kiewit, Wyoming, on September 13, 1999. The area north of Sheridan is rich with coal mining history, but one-by-one, t... (more)
Sandhills & Windmills: This is about as developed as the countryside gets for many a mile along Nebraska Route 2 that parallels the BNSF Sandhills Sub. Two of the Grinstein beauties lead yet anoth... (more)
The 904 West comes sailing down Abo Canyon in single track days. The area, a choke point on the Transcon, was double-tracked some ten years ago.
The 3187 East comes off the single track where the Transcon crosses the Golden State Route in Vaughn, NM - a segment that has since been double tracked. Unit 5512, second out, is a cabless SD45-2 ... (more)
Dwight Yoakam's "A Thousand Miles From Nowhere" comes to mind with this image. Out in the exquisite solitude of the Nebraska Sandhills, along Route 2 where drivers in the occasional pass... (more)
BN 7068 and plenty of power brings a westbound manifest under the searchlight signals in Waverly, NE on an overcast April afternoon.
A couple SD40s and a couple Dash 8s are on the point of this westbound manifest on the home stretch to Lincoln's Hobson Yard on former BN (CB&Q) territory. Although the Santa Fe's warbonnet colors... (more)
A trio of SD70MACS bring a southbound coal train past the searchlights leading onto single track at Palmer Lake, CO. The train is coming off of UP (nee Rio Grande) track, whereas the track on the ... (more)
Streaking across the Arizona Divide, the 4732's engineer puts the spurs to this post-merger power set - the leader so new it hasn't yet had its road name applied. At some 7000 feet in elevation he... (more)
A loaded coal train waits as MofW guys add material to the frog.
Fresh off the CSX, a BNSF coal train crawls out of Montgomery with a BN executive paint 70mac up front.
A leader with some style, BNSF 1057 is at the head of a pair of merger predecessors handling a westbound manifest outside of Ashland, NE. The old Q signal bridge is, of course, a nice touch.
After a run across the Mojave Desert and crew change in Needles, CA, the 1073 East behind a pair of Heritage I units and a Warbonnet cross the Colorado River and enter Arizona, beginning the long ... (more)
Heading south, a loaded coal train gets on the move as it departs the siding at Watts, OK just after dawn on May 6, 2021.
Charging into the late afternoon sun, ATSF 126 leads a westbound manifest, far from its original and intended haunts along the Transcon. By now the Super Fleet units have migrated to most parts of... (more)
Working customers on the northeast side of town, this crew has run out of time, and is waiting for a van to take them back to Cherokee Yard. Their locomotive was delivered to AT&SF in June 1969.
Negotiating the undulating profile of the C&I line in northern Illinois farm county is a pair of Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2s powering eastbound BNSF double stack train 54 west of Flag Center o... (more)
BNSF's Galesburg to Peoria manifest is on it's last lap to it's destination.
Sunset over Wendover Canyon At day’s end on July 4, 1999, an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train powered by three SD70MACs, leaving a thin veil of exhaust in its wake, n... (more)
As common as muskeeters by the river, another empty coal set makes its way across the Sandhills Sub with two classics - the Grinstein BN scheme and Heritage II BNSF colors. The Grinstein colors we... (more)
On a warm sunny spring evening, 4 standard cabs team up to take the Chicago to Galesburg local west, seen here in Mazon.
Loaded coal moving railroad west near the Mississippi River at Kampville, Missouri.
A trio of Grinstein-painted EMD SD70MACs leads an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train following the North Platte River in Wendover Canyon between Cassa and Wendover, Wyoming, on July... (more)
Yet another coal train is beginning its climb up Crawford Hill behind three beautiful SD70MACs. The action on this railroad seemed continual with the heavy volume of coal traffic plus intermodal a... (more)
NS 19M makes it's way past the Cambria Depot in Christiansburg, Va with a pair of BNSF units in charge.
With a pair of BNSF GE's on point, NS 19M rolls west through Shawsville, Va after dark.
A pair of SD40s, the leader bearing Santa Fe colors, fly through Hinckley with the Rochelle local in tow... bound for Eola.
On a very windy spring afternoon, the oh so popular 476 job crawls west out of Sugar Grove after waiting for a stack train. Todays local features a Hudson Bay SD50, headed to the Illinois Railnet ... (more)
