The sun is getting low as a westbound stack train rounds a curve near Wyaconda, Missouri.
Only a few more feet to go before this CN crew ties down their train on the north end of CN Keenan yard. Shortly, a BNSF crew will arrive and take it south from here where it will end up at U.S. ... (more)
A westbound manifest near Foley, Missouri passes peaking fall colors enroute to Saint Louis.
Taken just west of Hood, WA on Lewis and Clark Highway, CREX 1410, acting as a DPU, shoves the grain train westbound towards Vancouver. Along the former SP&S territory, the railroad follows the Co... (more)
A BNSF manifest train from Superior, Wisconsin to Grand Forks, North Dakota roars through the unincorporated small community of Ball Club, MN, having a population of approximately 300 people locat... (more)
October 21, 2020. Chico lives! Near Amboy, California. 34°37'33.06"N 115°59'12.72"W . Steve Crise Photo. (File# BNSF_Chico 181B)
The H-KCKGAL rolls east toward Galesburg on the Chilli Sub as the sun slips behind the horizon on a beautiful fall day.
The S-LPCLBE1-11X roars downgrade and across the Spoon River Bridge in Dahinda, Illinois with 14,905' of international stacks on the drawbars.
With U.S. Steel continuing to keep idle their Keewatin Taconite plant due to the soft demand caused by the pandemic, they are using their other Iron Range plant, Minntac, to produce pellets for th... (more)
An oil train with a fresh crew crosses the Catskill trestle and heads South for New Jersey on a cool Friday fall morning.
TEMCO employees are operating two locomotives (EFX 1611 with slug 219s and SW9 185) to unload a grain train. Just arriving is another grain train that will terminate at the facility, while a SB ... (more)
A westbound BNSF manifest passes through Old Monroe, Missouri. Old Monroe Lumber processes oak trees into milled lumber, seen drying in the yard adjacent to the tracks.
A triclops 60m, H4 60b, & H1 40 crawl around the bend into Lemont, with some lush autumn leaves painting the backdrop.
Having just crossed the UP at Tower 55, BNSF 4675 leads a tanker train up the grade out of Fort Worth
Rear DP engines on southbound rock train to Irving TX.
Rear DP engines on a southbound rock train to Irving TX crossing Lake Texoma
A post-merger power consist still predominantly flying the Santa Fe flag brings a westbound across the Kansas City Terminal/UP (former MP) diamond at Sheffield interlocking in days before a flyove... (more)
The morning fog is burning off as a short manifest train passes the grain silos at Annada, Missouri.
Crossing a wood trestle south of Farthing, Wyoming, is a southbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train as it approaches Altus on the former Colorado & Southern main line between Cheyenne and ... (more)
BNSF C 44 9W No. 4135 leads Santa Fe Warbonnet C 44 9W No. 636 and Norfolk Southern Stallion C 44 9W no. 9367 along the treacherous rock face of Serpentine Canyon on the old Western Pacific Feathe... (more)
Back when BNSF was colorful. And what a lash up on this Denver to Provo trackage right train. C44-9W 739, GP7U 1312, SD40-2 7304, 8021, SDF40-2 6968, and another SD40-2 7223. My dad Tom Ellis went... (more)
Ex-Frisco BN GP50
BNSF 6017, one of the new 25th Anniversary units, leads a loaded coal train across the Brazos River south of Fort Worth. Just past here it would end up sitting in a siding until past dark due to o... (more)
A pair of former Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2s, Nos. 7898 and 6372, pull an eastbound BNSF freight past a ranch east of Verona, Wyoming, on July 1 2002. The conductor seems momentarily have his ... (more)
