Westbound in the big curve between Marmon and Laguna, BNSF 8247 in native colors leads two Heritage II GEs.
Standing on the overpass in Winslow, Arizona on a late winter morning, BNSF 4974 comes rolling into town on the final mile of its lengthy crew district from Needles, CA. Out across the majestic sa... (more)
Brilliant in the late afternoon sun, a trio of Dash9s and an SD75M power a westbound up the grade towards the Continental Divide.
A BNSF coal train exercising it's trackage rights on the Union Pacific. The trackage rights are due to the UP. SP merger. BNSF 5911 is heading westbound on the Shafter subdivision, ex Western Paci... (more)
Struggling up the long grade from the Rio Grande valley at Belen to Mountainair, BNSF 505 East leads another one of the diverse power consists that proliferated at the time, including an F45. Fuji... (more)
Early morning finds the 4826 East sailing across the plains and blowing past the old division point of Vaughn, NM. The subdivision was largely single track with passing sidings yet and you better ... (more)
You never knew what you were going to get for a power consist in the years following the big mergers of the 90s. UP or C&NW leaders were the norm for UP trains between Ogden, Topeka and Chicago ac... (more)
BNSF 1507 Sits Lifeless By Some Flowers At Brownsville.
Resplendent in the morning sunshine, BNSF 4750 slips beneath the cantilever at Summit - the east end of two main tracks on Marias Pass - after the Essex helpers had cut off. Fuji Astia.
Sort of a typical view of an early post mega-merger power lineup and scene of the railroad crossing immense Lake Pend Oreille. A fairly new Heritage 1 Dash9 leads predecessor roads' power as well ... (more)
North bound manifest with a nice mix of power.
Today I was able to catch a BNSF coal train on the Shafter Subdivision. A BNSF coal train on this trackage was a first for me. My assumption is that it must be some kind of export coal train for t... (more)
Some Seligman Sub action on a crazy hot Friday afternoon.
Out of a Montana afternoon comes the 1094 West leading Oakway SD60s and BN C30-7s as they urge a coal train into the grade toward Marias Pass. A pair of Essex helpers are on the rear. Fuji Astia.
A lite power set crosses the UP in Fremont, NE. The BNSF merger had already defiled the warbonnet scheme, as the SD75Ms had their super fleet 200 series numbers bounced to the 8200s with a gaudy p... (more)
BNSF 3896 South Rolls Over Bridge 127.6 At Golden Hour.
BNSF 7958 leads a tank train up the west side of Bozeman Pass.
CSX M533-08 coming through the rip-rap into Downtown Nashville this evening with BNSF 716 leading. Still supporting the Red and Silver AT&SF paint scheme with “Santa Fe” still retaining in th... (more)
Chugwater arrival On the clear afternoon of May 30, 1998, a southbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight arrives at Chugwater, Wyoming. The train is powered by a pair of EMD locomoti... (more)
On the Orin Line in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin a southbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train passes a small, abandoned homestead just north of Reno Junction on June 30, 2002.
Surrounded by the snow capped San Bernardino Mountains an eastbound BNSF stack climbs uphill towards the Summit of Cajon Pass.
The Big Mac in the Executive paint scheme of the fallen flag Burlington Northern in a rare move leading a Coal train (EBMDOL0) "Loaded coal from Eagle Butte Mine to Donnie,TX", is tied... (more)
BNSF 4025 leads the Denver to Provo, UT mixed freight train westbound into Plainview, Colorado as it battles the 3% grade all the way up until the the Moffat Tunnel, here it is just seconds before... (more)
Brand-new Burlington Northern Santa Fe EMD SD70MAC No. 9840 makes its first revenue run down Colorado’s Joint Line at Greenland on a cold December 11, 1997. Weird to think that orange paint was ... (more)
Sand loads rolling south along the Mississippi River.
A westbound oil train passing under the bluffs formed by the Mississippi River, which was once three miles wide near this location.
At 8:20 a.m. the morning of September 1, 2003, Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s V KCMPTL 29 blows by the mile 207.2 semaphores at Donlan, Montana. In the left seat of this former Santa Fe GP50 is... (more)
An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight crosses Cedar Creek Trestle east od Superio, Montana, on July 3, 2001. Leading the train is recently-repainted SD60M No. 9299 (former BN “Desert... (more)
A fire-scarred C44-9W cruising west past the grain elevators at Annada, Missouri.
The Kelly Lake local crew with a pair of green SD40-2s move south thru the yard with loaded gondolas of scrap steel and empty bentonite hoppers while passing KD Jct. which is the split BNSF uses t... (more)
