The BNSF still operates about 100 miles of ex-MILW mainline in western Iowa. Bayard Local LHLA609 works 5 days a week out to Bayard doing local work. Here the job slowly heads back to Council Bluf... (more)

Local switching power at Sioux City on the BNSF. The power is parked at the northend of the yard where the Sioux City Sub meets the Marshall Sub. Kind of neat looking GP30 on the rear end.

A BNSF oil can gets ready to exit the Moffat Tunnel in a heavy snowstorm that dropped a foot of snow.

BNSF 6295 (ES44AC) runs through the snow towards Tolland, Colorado on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

ES44C4 7956 speeds east leading empty intermodal cars through Escalon Ca.

Springtime lilacs are blooming in a roadside park as a southbound BNSF coal train passes an old water tank that once filled CB&Q steam locomotives with water at Gurley, Nebraska, on May 23, 2014.

Eastbound Z intermodal passing through Modesto Ca.

Climbing Cajon Pass as it heads east from Los Angeles to Barstow, and passing through Cajon Pass' iconic Mormon Rocks area, is BNSF Railway train U-LACBAR5-30Z, a "Special Unit Train" co... (more)

A hot Z accelerates past a small rock cut after meeting an eastbound counterpart.

Three General Electric locomotives climb the 1.4% grade of Yampai Hill as they pull the Willow Springs, IL to North Bay, CA Z-train.

The Willow Springs, IL to Los Angeles, CA UPS train charges out of the sag of Pica as it begins the climb up Yampai Hill. Normally, these Z-WSPLACs are short, hotshot trains. Today however, the Z-... (more)

Light snow falls over the BNSF yard in Golden, Colorado. BNSF Executive Grinstein 9709 (SD70MAC) was a long time fixture of the beer train that ran between the Coors refinery in Golden and Denver... (more)

BNSF 2530 (GP39-3) leads a short freight up the Broomfield Siding on the Front Range Sub.

A BNSF manifest quickly glides down the Tehachapi grade and approaches tunnel 9 on a warm summer afternoon.

BNSF C-CAMCDJ pulling up Logan Hill