BNSF uses one of their ex-GN snow dozers to clear Mikes Yard in West Duluth after a heavy snow. BNSF 2051 is former Milwaukee Road GP40 2011.
Brand-new EMD SD70MAC No. 9840 leads a southbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train over the Santa Fe bridge crossing East Plum Creek and Spruce Mountain Road just south of Larkspur on the J... (more)
A loaded coal train passes under some of the impressive cliffs of the Mississippi River north of St. Louis.
On a warm July afternoon, southbound Philly bound oil train K160-24 rumbles into the deep cut just south of CP-43 at Mine Dock Road. Leading the train is a very unusual (for NY State)H3 schemed SD... (more)
A southbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train works through the sweeping curves leaving Altus and is approaching Horse Creek, Wyoming, on July 4, 1999.
A BNSF freight train makes its way round the Tehachapi Loop. I'm told the smokey haze in the background was from wild fires. *drone pic
Another coal train from the Powder River Basin heads towards Houston Power and Light's Smithers Lake power plant.
With their DPUs just coming into the frame far left near the famed Hill 582, an eastbound BNSF stack train works up Main 1 as it moves through the control point at Silverwood. The rain clouds have... (more)
A pair of Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2s power eastbound BNSF empty grain train G22 through the snow east of Nyack, Montana, on March 1, 1997
On a cold December late morning, Philly bound oil train K162 rumbles south over the serene icy Catskill Creek after holding at CP-111 for Q007. Winter has come hard and early to the Mid Hudson Val... (more)
A pair of Burlington Northern Santa Fe GE C44-9Ws power an eastbound freight on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision approaching St. Regis, Montana, on July 1, 2000.
On a crisp fall day, two BNSF interlopers trundle along the Mowhawk river with a unit oil train.
The Southern Pacific era signal bridge just west of Mojave, CA was a popular photographic location before its demise during the decimation of heritage signal systems. Just a few blocks from enteri... (more)
BNSF has a menagerie of rebuilds that started life as Second-Gen geeps, and wound up as GP39s of some sort, but this is a renumbered GP39-2 that was among the big group of 39-2s that Santa Fe acqu... (more)
A colorful consist powers a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe grain train at Bison, Montana, on March 2, 1997. The train is powered by an eclectic set of motive power comprised of BNSF GE C44... (more)
Late afternoon light on a bare table at East Machens, Missouri.
Two trains sit at Reese Siding awaiting fresh crews to take them South. The Auto train is coming out of the Toyota plant in Blue Springs while the loaded coal is led by BNSF 6126
BNSF 4688 leads this crude oil train eastward through the snow covered Utah desert. The train loaded at the Price River Terminal near Wellington, Utah and is probably destined for Cushing, Oklahom... (more)
A Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight passes a ranch east of Verona, Wyoming, on July 1, 2002. Powering the eastbound train is GE C44-9W No. 4485 and EMD SD40-2 No. 7155.
BNSF 756 East is about to enter two main track territory as it leaves the Flathead River gorge on the long grade to Marias Pass. The image fails to capture the incredible lightness and pine scent ... (more)
Essex helpers on the 756 East approach the summit of the grade at Marias Pass.
There are two more diesels - a C44-9W and an ES44C4 - behind 3727, and all 13,200hp are straining to get this westbound intermodal train over the hill just west of Neosho.
BNSF 6188 East is descending Silver Zone Pass on the former Western Pacific line between Elko and Wendover, NV.
An eastbound BNSF trackage rights manifest eases down the steep grade into the Price River valley as it passes the west end of Kyune center siding.
BNSF's Provo-Denver manifest snakes through the steep and rugged Gore Canyon on the upper Colorado River as the morning's snow storm recedes. Though the canyon is short (approx. 3 miles), its wall... (more)
Running cow under rising moon Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s train 195 passes over San Isidro Creek at Abeyta east of the siding at Barela, Colorado, on February 27, 1999. The northbo... (more)
BNSF 8248 leads a manifest train down the BNSF Barstow Sub.
Following the now famous Route 66 on a foggy morning near Amarillo, we passed by this stopped coal train.
