A pair of CNW GP50s lead an APL stack train along the IHB through Blue Island. Tom Golden photo.

A Burlington Northern stack train passes Hoffman Avenue (West Hoffman) at Dayton’s Bluff in St. Paul, Minnesota, on March 22, 1986. A pair of EMD GP50s in “tiger stripe” paint bracket a GE B... (more)

Cresson Turn departing Hodge with 9 engines.

Norfolk Southern No. 207 speeds past a westbound freight in the siding at Tolono, Illinois, on October 11, 1995. The westbound intermodal is led by EMD GP50 No. 7091, while the freight is powered ... (more)

Two Bluebonnets and a former Burlington Northern unit wait in the BNSF engine servicing yard for orders.

CNW 5094 leads two more GP50s elephant style around a curve near Carroll, IA with a Falcon service intermodal train headed from Chicago to a connection with the Union Pacific at Fremont, NE. The &... (more)

BN 3100 brings an intermodal train past the East Glacier Park, MT depot in May of 1990.

After meeting an eastbound a westbound lead by GP50 7007 leaves the siding at Tucker.

Bluebonnet 3172 crosses the South Platt River with a cut of cars from the Denver Yard.

Bluebonnet 3172 pulls a string of freight over the South Platte River for sorting in the Denver Yard.

BNSF 3172 pulls a long string of freight out of the Denver Yard. The yard team take a quick break and then will work for the next 15 minutes sorting the cars onto the right tracks.

BNSF 3172 still retains its original 1981 ATSF paint scheme. It now works in the Denver yard sorting freight cars.

BNSF 3172 pulls another cut of freight cars out of the Denver Yard for sorting.

Train APLA5X on what is now called the Blair Sub. is climbing Arlington Hill about 11 miles short of arriving at Fremont, NE.

A trio of high-hood Geeps leads a westbound freight along the former Nickel Plate mainline. Tom Golden photo.