A westbound stack train passes the siding at Medill, Missouri. Interesting to note that on a clear blue day that the sun is muted. This is due to smoke from western wildfires, which are about 20... (more)
25th Anniversary Locomotive leads a vehicle train southbound.
Across the barren expanse, on the home stretch into Winslow, comes ATSF 533 with a power consist that still evokes the heritage of this iconic route. Beyond the searchlight signals lies the Canyo... (more)
On the afternoon of May 28, 2000, Santa Fe GE C40-8W No. 846, along with a pair of Heritage II C44-9Ws, leads a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest out of Rocky Colorado. The train is ... (more)
Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s Stockton to Denver manifest is about to pass the DPUs of a loaded Union Pacific coal train tied down in Rocky siding on the afternoon of April 28, 2002. In the lat... (more)
Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s Stockton to Denver manifest freight drops downgrade off Big 10 Curve approaching Rocky, Colorado, on the afternoon of April 28, 2002. In the late 1990s, a large gr... (more)
BNSF ES44C4 #8393 and various power at the BNSF Denver Diesel Facility 10/8/16.
BNSF GP39M #2897 and SD40-2 #1732 switching at the North end of the yard Denver, CO 10/8/16. In the foreground, construction is underway on the Denver RTD N Line to Eastlake.
BNSF ES44DC #7400 leads H-DENPUE1-01 at Denver, CO 10/01/16. The UP North Yard is on the left, BNSF ramp on the right.
An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight, powered by BNSF GE C44-9W No. 5312 and two warbonnet Santa Fe GEs, pops out of Tunnel 1 just east of Plainview, Colorado, on the afterno... (more)
On February 19, 2002, a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight gets help from a pair of EMD SD40-2 pushers as it climbs the two percent grade at Coal Creek Canyon between Clay and... (more)
A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight climbs through the horseshoe curve spanning the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon between Clay and Plainview, Colorado, on February 19, 2002.
After crossing Utah’s Soldier Summit, an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight, powered by a quartet of GE C44-9Ws, passes a discarded old Ford Truck as it approaches Helper Ya... (more)
A trio of SD40s race over the Des Plaines River, en route for Galesburg... on the other side of the state.
BNSF 7705 leads a train of Autoracks towards Alliance Yard
With a fresh set of PTC, a former Santa Fe Dash 9 leads an H4 60m on the 202 local out of Joliet.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe GP28's 1545 & 1535 have coupled up to their NS interchange and are preparing to return to East Thomas Yard. #1545 was originally a GP9 built February 1957 as #311 for... (more)
The empty coal drag glides down the grade heading back to the powder river basin for more black diamonds.
Powered by a trio of EMD SD70MACs in Grinstein colors, a northbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train passes mile 14.5 on the Orin Subdivision at Caballo Junction on the morning of May 30, 1... (more)
On a warm summer evening, a pair of 40s, and a 60m, power todays 105 to Galesburg.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s Denver to Stockton freight climbs up the eastern grade of Utah’s Soldier Summit through the curves of Kyune on the afternoon of February 5, 2004.
Bnsf 8219 leads the daily H-MEMGAL into Old Monroe Mo. Recently a new bridge was replaced crossing the Cuivre River and now trains can do the track speed through town.
BNSF ES44AC #5932 leading train C-BTMAMH0-45 at Larkspur, CO 9/21/18.
BNSF SD70ACe #9126 leading train E-HAFWTM0-11 at Palmer Lake, CO 9/21/18.
On a clear July 28, 2001, afternoon, an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train heads downgrade out of Plainview, Colorado.
The vast spaces of the Nebraska Sandhills are punctuated by numerous aquifer lakes. BN 9601 East is rolling through the landscape near Hyannis on an August afternoon. Fuji Velvia.
Toward the end of a beautiful, clear day in Wyoming, a southbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train grinds past a oil well pump jack south of Bill in Powder River Basin on July 8, 1999.
Northbound on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s Casper Subdivision is a freight led by BNSF EMD SD40-2 No. 6338 at Sodium, Wyoming, on September 1, 1998. Behind No. 6338 is BNSF GP9u No. 1638 a... (more)
Three warbonnet-clad GEs power a northbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight departing Kane, Wyoming, along the west shore of Bighorn Lake on October 12, 1997. Interestingly, all three have di... (more)
