Burlington Northern’s Helena Turn heads through Wolf Creek Canyon west of Wolf Creek, Montana, on August 25, 1993. Powered by GP39M No. 2885 and SD40 No. 6304, the train is exiting Tunnel 4 and cr... (more)

Running for Whitefish with nine 4-axle units is Burlington Northern train #208 at Lupfer, MT, and the GP39m (rebuilt GP30) on the point looks good.

Former BN executive F is covered in snow while sister BN-3 powers Holiday Special

A westbound Burlington Northern “Dinky” roars out of Chicago Union Station powered by EMD E9 No. 9925. A commuter train on the former CB&Q Chicago to Aurora line was nicknamed a “Dinky,” perhaps t... (more)

BN 5598 leads a coal train along Hwy 2 near Ashby, NE in May of 1991. I always liked these GE's on coal trains.

A westbound Burlington Northern coal train broke a knuckle on the lead car right behind the motive power leaving Keenesburg, Colorado, in April 1984. The coupler of coal gon FTTX No. 2521 shows to... (more)

E9 no. 9920 leads a BN/Metra commuter train into Aurora's station, passing the coach yard that holds the commuter fleet on the west end of the BN race track to Chicago.

BN 9478 along with AT&SF GP-35 2935 leads a westbound manifest off the Sioux City Subdivision at Ashland toward Hobson yard in Lincoln, NE. The distinctive Q signals have long since fallen to prog... (more)

Merger photo

An Operation Lifesaver special heads South down Burlington Northern's Front Range Sub. heading towards Denver.

Six Burlington Northern F units were stored at Denver’s stockyards for a time in the mid-1980s. BN F7 No. 732 is a former Northern Pacific locomotive.

BN-1 & BN-2 head a passenger train at IRM as the second.. no third.. no maybe fourth wave of nasty storms comes knocking on IRM's door. The night photo shoot was canceled but thanks to Kevin Sadow... (more)

BN 2938 on an eastbound freight heads into Rochelle, IL at dusk making for the final shot of a snowless December day in northern Illlinois. The BNSF is just over 3 months old, but looks like the ... (more)

Burlington Northern intermodal train No. 12 approaches Savanna, Illinois, in a view from Mississippi Palisades State Park on the beautiful summer morning of July 14, 1991.

The CNW-BN diamond is dominated for a few minutes by BN with westbound BN 7218 meeting an eastbound stack train in downtown Rochelle. Meantime, BN 1977 and its caboose have finished some switching... (more)