A BN hotshot head east out of St. Paul at sunset along Pigs Eye Yard for an overnight run to Chicago. SD45 6423 leads an SD40-2, SD45 and U33C with perishable traffic on the head end.

A pair of ancient BN SD9s head north out of the Indiana Harbor Belt's Blue Island Yard with a cut of gondolas loaded with fresh Northwest Indiana steel. Tom Golden photo.

Skirting the Puget Sound shoreline for roughly 30 miles between Everett and Seattle this Burlington Northern westbound freight will momentarily pass through the waterfront town of Edmonds, WA with... (more)

A westbound commuter train speeds through Berwyn, Illinois, in a panned photograph made on December 23, 1988. This Metra train is led by venerable Burlington Northern E9A No. 9907, originally buil... (more)

Burlington Northern F45 number 6644 leads a westbound freight as it crosses the Wenatchee River at Dryden, WA.

Green, red and blue: A westbound BNSF freight exits Tunnel 4 in scenic Wind River Canyon east of Dornick, Wyoming, on October 2, 1997. Leading the colorful consist is Burlington Northern SD40-2 No... (more)

No one seemed to mind photographers just walking around taking their happy snaps at BN's Hoyt Street Roundhouse in downtown Portland. And what engaging photo subjects! Here we see, left to right, ... (more)

A visit to Portland's Hoyt Street roundhouse in the spring of 1980 reinforced the bad news we'd heard: BN's Alco fleet was in storage, jamming nearly every available track at Hoyt Street at at the... (more)

With plenty of F-units, Alcos, and F45's running around in the area in the late 1970s, one could get spoiled photographing nothing but Exotica. Admittedly, I was less than thrilled when a westboun... (more)

Just another typical day along the Burlington Northern Railroad in the summer of 1978. That U33C up front is former Northern Pacific; the Southern Pacific SD45T-2 was one of several see frequently... (more)

BN 1750 and 4 other vintage units lead a freight west through tunnel 9, the first of 3 tunnels just west of Lyle, WA along the Columbia River en route to Vancouver, WA from Wishram.

BN 6644, one of three F45's on this train, leads a westbound freight on the main at Leavenworth, WA.

Former Great Northern F45 6601 leads two SD45's on a westbound manifest curving along the Columbia River a few miles east of Wenatchee, Washington, approaching the siding of Malaga on a summer aft... (more)

BN 4361, a rare Alco C636, waits on its eastbound freight at Cook siding along the Columbia River while a westbound freight rushes by. The train held for two westbounds before continuing on to Wis... (more)

It is the summer of 1982. A local freight near Spokane is lead by BN 1744 (ex NP 306), followed by BN 1764 (ex. GN 703), BN 1839 (ex, GN 687) and another geep.