From passengers to beer
For many years, Burlington Northern operated a trio of EMD SDP40s on the branch to Golden serving the sprawling Coors Brewery—on trains called the “Beer Runâ... (more)

On a crystal clear and icy cold March 3, 1989, a Burlington Northern freight heads east at Grizzly, Montana, beneath the jagged snow-covered peaks of Glacier National Park. The train is led by BN ... (more)

PUEBLO CO June 16 1979 — BN U30C 5364 leads BN U30C 5368 and a Santa Fe caboose in the Pueblo yard. Unit 5360 was retired in September 1990. Unit 5368 was retired in December 1990. My photo.

BN GP39M 2819 (former CB&Q GP30 941), BN GP39M 2801 (former UP GP30 827) Santa Fe C30-7 8072 in merger paint scheme and BN GP39M 2822 (former GN GP30 3012) at Kansas City, KS on December 20, 1... (more)

A quartet of SD60MACs were built by EMD to test Siemens alternating current traction equipment and the builder’s HTCR-II radial (steerable) truck. Constructed on a 74-foot frame, the 3,800 hp SD... (more)

CASTLE ROCK CO July 24 1982 — BN SD40-2s 7283, 7277 and another SD40-2 are tied down. The 7283 was built in March 1980. My photo.

After a long walk in, and a long work window, trains flooded the tracks through Wendover Canyon between Wendover and Cassa, Wyoming, on the afternoon of July 8, 1994. Finding track time between th... (more)

Burlington Northern’s local to Kalispell is about to cross the Pioneer Road grade crossing as it departs La Salle, Montana, on a snowy November 1, 1991. This branch runs from Columbia Falls to K... (more)

MARYHILL WA June 4 2005 — Westbound FURX SD40-2 7281 takes the mainline after an eastbound trash train has cleared the switch.

Burlington Northern freight 103 heads west through Hazelhurst located between Polo and Milledgeville, Illinois, on the BN’s C&I line on April 6, 1991.

OKLAHOMA CITY Dec 18 1983 — BN GP38AC 2124 lays over at the former Frisco Yard off Byars southeast of city center. EMD delivered this unit as SLSF GP38AC 647 in March 1971. My photo.

HEREFORD TX June 20 1986 — BN C30-7 5125 leads a loaded coal train in the Texas Panhandle on the Santa Fe's Transcon. My photo.

BINGEN WA Sept 27 1978 -- Burlington Northern C636 4368, GP35 2537 and C424 4240 make their way east in the Columbia River Gorge. It was my first trip to the Pacific Northwest to visit my sister n... (more)

BN 5383 pushes the caboose train back along the mainline and past an active semaphore signal at IRM's annual Diesel Days event.

A bull of the bovine persuasion is about to cross Echeta Road as a pair of Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2s hustle an eastbound Z train past milepost 627 through Croton, Wyoming, on the morning of ... (more)