I liked the symmetry of track panels stacked at BNSF's yard in Duluth.
BNSF 6054 leads a northbound ore train through Grenville, New Mexico.
BNSF 282 leads K163 northbound.
Cascade Green Quartet! Coal moving over Mullan Pass behind four Cascade Green ex. Burlington Northern SD60Ms! The sound of big DC motors exploding out of Skyline Cut and over the Austin C... (more)
Traversing the former Rio Grande Moffat Tunnel main line, Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s Denver to Stockton freight climbs out of Rocky, Colorado, on April 23, 2002. An eastbound Union Pacific c... (more)
A BNSF manifest runs south (railroad west) along Hwy. 79 near Clarksville, Missouri.
Activating four sets of crossing signals, two of which are still the old Griswolds, this all rail taconite crawls through downtown Hibbing, MN at 10 mph. In another couple miles they will be out o... (more)
The loaded Napa, California to Roosevelt, Washington trash train makes track speed through the Butte Valley on a summer morning in 1999.
On Christmas Day 1998, a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight pops out of Snowshed 12 just east of Essex during a light snowfall. Snowsheds still protecting the BNSF right-of-way over Ma... (more)
BNSF 1687 leads a pair of cascade green engines southbound past Dayton's Bluff.
Just after sunrise a manifest makes its way east.
This BNSF all rail taconite train just passed through Bob Dylan's hometown of Hibbing, MN and is now about to pass under the at one time double track bridge over the BN that the DMIR/Missabe used ... (more)
With both BNSF-served taconite iron ore mines closed due to soft demand for steel, most of the railroad's fleet of ore cars is currently stored with the exception of a few sets running to U.S. Ste... (more)
Cody Local has made a pickup at Ralston and is eastbound to connection with Casper Sub at Frannie.
An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight departs Tabernash, Colorado, on the morning of February 16, 2002.
Blue Looper on the Moffat Burlington Northern Santa Fe GE C44-9W No. 712 leads an eastbound coal train at Coal Creek Canyon just west of Clay, Colorado, on May 24, 2000. Blue brake shoe... (more)
In the relative coolness of the early morning, a short 30 car train is picking up speed coming out of the siding at Machens, Missouri.
A conveyor ballast train deposits rock along a BNSF branch line in Duluth. These are interesting trains to observe and how they can dump ballast exactly where it is needed. A Tate & Lyle chemical ... (more)
New BNSF C44-9W #4709 in the red & silver Warbonnet scheme at Kansas City, Missouri. An original Kodachrome slide from my Collection.
An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway business train approaches Fullerton. At just four months old, there are not many locomotives relettered for the new road yet, let alone any of th... (more)
BNSF 8984 paired with a CEFX GE unit pound the diamonds at the UP crossing in Fremont, NE with a coal train bound for Sioux City, IA.
BNSF's Sioux City Sub (a former Burlington route) nearly makes a beeline from Ashland, NE to Sioux City, IA, however, takes a turn through Fremont, NE to parallel the UP before crossing it west of... (more)
An autorack train heads north through the Dayton's Bluff area of downtown St. Paul.
High on the west slope of Marias Pass the 4439 West exits Shed No.8 with a long manifest. The air is pure, the sun is warm and the railroad action quite decent on this August afternoon.
An eastbound high-priority train coming off Cardy Hill near Ethel, Missouri.
A westbound manifest crosses Peruque Creek on the BNSF Hannibal Sub.
An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight drops downgrade off Big 10 Curve approaching Rocky, Colorado, on the afternoon of April 13, 2002.
BNSF 6028 sits in the siding at Ponder as a high priority intermodal train flies by on the mainline
