Near the end of the day, this BNSF work train was going downgrade on main 3 near Hill 582 on the famous Cajon Pass. A load of rails was on the tow.
Brand-new BNSF Dash 9 No. 1092 idles at dusk in the engine facility with Santa Fe power.
B-B local power waits in the snow for the next call to service. B23-7 4274 was delivered to Santa Fe in December 1985, but I bet it left BNSF's roster before GP30u 2460, an upgraded version of a ... (more)
Near sunset, BNSF workers at the north fuel racks get out of their vehicle to perform maintenance on the power of a couple of northbounds.
A maintenance worker rides BNSF's inspection car "Rio Grande" as the train's brakeman walks back up to the head end after throwing a switch into a siding.
After running on NS from Mobile, this northbound returns to home rails at Kimbrough, which is identified by a sign visible from space.
The Fall colors are peaking as a maintenance train makes its way back to St. Louis on the BNSF Hannibal Sub.
The Stockton Sub dispatcher runs an Amtrak San Joaquin around BNSF 726 West. The BNSF train is sitting on new track, part of the double track recently installed between Oakley and Bixler using $31... (more)
BNSF 1001 leading a westbound stack train waits for a signal to clear at Edmonds, WA before completing its trip along Puget Sound from Everett to Seattle. Edmonds was and may still be a bottle nec... (more)
A 190 car monster double tanker enters Selkirk Yard with a double BNSF DPU set mid-train. The train will swap crews at CP-14. The consolidation of two loaded oils is unusual but likely due to th... (more)
A 190 car monster double tanker enters Selkirk Yard with a double BNSF DPU set mid-train. The train will swap crews at CP-14 and continue south on the River Sun as a double train set. The monste... (more)
Westbound passes Frazer's local Badger bar.
BNSF stack trains meet at the outskirts of Gallup. C44-9W No. 4846 is headed toward the West Coast.
BNSF 1098 West is laboring up the final mile of the long grade to the summit of Marias Pass at the aptly named control point "Summit" - 1150 miles from St. Paul, MN. Fuji Astia.
The old colors and the new ride in tandem as an eastbound BNSF freight rolls along Montana Rail Link's 4th Subdivision between Hope and Clark Fork, ID. The Santa Fe SFD40-2 is a nice touch. Fuji A... (more)
Ex-BN power sits in the tight engine facility outside the ex-BN 32nd St. roundhouse.
K160 storms southbound with a BNSF GE in the lead. This unit did a great job setting the “fall scene” with the changing leaves in the background.
The sun breaks through the clouds and peeks over the top of the Lombard Canyon on the Montana Rail Link 2nd Sub. This westbound Stack will be the last train for awhile as the window for the day's ... (more)
An empty eastbound string of coal hoppers with BNSF No. 5659 leading through Lombard Canyon along the Missouri River on the Montana Rail Link 2nd Sub.
A southbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal empty approaches West Cordero Junction on Wyoming’s Orin Line in Powder River Basin on June 30, 2002.
On a clear winter afternoon in Barstow, CA, BNSF 533 East crosses a concrete bridge over the Mojave River.
A trio of Warbonnets were climbing east through Crozier Canyon.
BNSF 8514 takes the head lead of the consist of a fast moving z-train cruising at a steady 60-70 MPH passing Modesto following the morning manifest photographed prior as the first manifest of this... (more)
A pair of BNSF units lead CSXT L171 west at the diamond in Deshler, Oh.
The Ultimate throwback consist rockets out of CP Harbor westwards with a trio of Santa Fe units!
Thank you BNSF for 11 consecutive years they have ran the Make A Wish special passenger train for the kids.
A pair of Dash 9s, lead some Santa Fe Heritage & an H2 Mac on a Z for the west coast.
A 4-Pack of pumpkins start their journey for the west coast, cruising here through the factories of Lemont.
Near sunset, surrounded by one of the largest stands of puzzle-barked ponderosa pines anywhere in the world, a westbound BNSF stack train roars up the east side of the Arizona Divide toward the su... (more)
