Led by venerable Burlington Northern EMD E9 No. 9913, a westbound BN “Dinky” commuter train storms into Lisle, Illinois, on the afternoon of March 3, 1990.
Most trains traveling east out of Alliance, NE are loaded with Powder River coal, but in the Nebraska sand hills along Nebraska Route 2, we traveled in our Chevrolet Impala station wagon alongsid... (more)
Burlington Northern intermodal train 13 passes BN freight train 103 at Burke, Illinois, on April 7, 1990. The two trains just swapped crews so the slower and delayed train 103, with EMD GP39M No. ... (more)
While a Chicago & North Western coal train loads on the spur to Antelope Mine, a northbound Burlington Northern coal train, powered by a trio of BN EMD SD70MACs, passes by on the main line at Conv... (more)