No Dust. BNSF B40-8W no. 559 is seen with a cut of cars approaching the 56th Ave grade crossing in Commerce City, CO. Per the signs at right, the speed limit on these dirt roads is 5 mp... (more)
Light snow is falling on the Brush Sub as BNSF 7735 (ES44DC) runs light with a group of motors towards Denver, Colorado.
Heavy snow is falling on the BNSF engine servicing facility in Denver, Colorado.
Former Santa Fe B40-8W 552 leads 452 South through Aurora.
BNSF 6338 & 8429 bring up the rear of westbound empties.
BNSF 8255 leads westbound empties.
BNSF 2530 (GP39-3) runs to the BNSF yard in Longmont, Colorado.
BNSF 6717 (ES44DC) brings the DenLau freight train into Denver, Colorado.
The sound of dynamic brakes whining echo through Crozier Canyon as the Z-NYCLAC4 (New York, NY to Los Angeles, CA) descends down the 1.3% grade of Crozier Canyon.
With a week left of Peak Season 2023, six GE locomotives are polishing the rails with hotshot San Bernardino, CA to Willow Springs, IL Z2. With a total of 26,400 horsepower, this Z-train has no is... (more)
Morning sunlight peaks through the thin layer of clouds to illuminate the Music Mountains as four locomotives descend into Crozier Canyon with a hot Willow Springs, IL to Stockton, CA Z-train near... (more)
An eastbound BNSF Z train obliterates a small snowdrift at Bellemont as it charges east towards Flagstaff, Winslow and points east. This was my first ever encounter with snow railfanning, and I wa... (more)
A BNSF manifest pulls out of the siding at Gibb, Missouri after passing a loaded coal train.
Former Santa Fe B40-8W 552 leads 452 South through North North Aurora.
BNSF 6004 (ES44AC) leads the BNSF Provo train through tunnels 4, 3 and 2 as it heads to Denver, Colorado on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.
ES44C4s lead a local freight bound for Riverbank Yard.
Eastbound BNSF local rumbles by Modesto Station.
After a short (less than a mile) run on BCOL's Port Sub, BNSF ES44C4 8024 leads a Vancouver-Portland manifest back onto home rails at Colebrook heading south to Washington State.
You can still find a working Grinstein in Denver, Colorado. BNSF 9709 (Executive SD70MAC) works the Beer Train that moves between the Coors Brewing plant in Golden, Colorado and the BNSF yard in ... (more)
BNSF 1022, still sporting BNSF's H1 paint scheme, leads an 8,600' Denver, CO to San Bernardino, CA repo baretable train out of Crozier Canyon.
A rare "Hi-Wide" movement is led by two BNSF GE motors as they slowly move through Crozier Canyon as they near Valentine where a relief crew will takeover for the remainder of the trip i... (more)
A weathered BNSF 2028 (GP38-2) waits at the depot in Longmont, Colorado.
A fairly common scene in Cajon Pass where two trains are "racing" eachother.
BNSF 9225 (SD70ACe) runs between the refineries in Commerce City, Colorado as it heads to Denver.
An ex ATSF warbonnet C44-9W leads CSX loaded phosphate train K810 north past the searchlights at Madisonville
Powered by four BNSF GE locomotives, an eastbound BNSF freight works upgrade approaching Tunnel 2 just west of the siding at Bealville, California, on the afternoon of February 26, 2016.
BNSF 8578 (SD70ACe) leads a loaded coal train through Acequia, Colorado as it runs south on the Joint Line.
You can still find original Cascade Green Burlington Nothern units at the Denver yard in downtown Denver, Colorado. Here BNSF 1656 (SD40-2) waits for servicing at the engine facility near Denver'... (more)
BNSF 1880 (SD40-2) shuffles a cut of cars in the yard in downtown Denver, Colorado.
BNSF 9215 (SD70ACe) runs through downtown Denver, Colorado.
A very faded BNSF 2028 (GP38-2) waits in the yard in Longmont, Colorado to take the local Buck to Westminster, Colorado.
Eastbound local freight rumbles through Hughson Ca.
A Montana Rail Link crewman of a westbound BNSF train sitting in the siding at Austin, Montana, greets BNSF HPASKCK descending the grade of Mullan Pass on September 12, 2010.
A shiny BNSF 7788 (ES44DC) heads to the Denver Yard and will lash up to a coal train heading south.
Eight days after a 10 hour 19 minute late Amtrak 3, another Amtrak 3 heads west, but is only 6 hours and 1 minute behind schedule on this day. It was, of course, for the same reason: One of the ... (more)
BNSF train D-BARLAC3-30I, a movement of light engines (BNSF ES44DC 7889, ES44C4 6941, Dash 9-44CW 5500, ES44AC 6167, ES44C4 6733 and ES44C4 6949) traveling from Barstow to Los Angeles, makes a bri... (more)
An early season snowfall veils BNSF’s Hi Line Subdivision main line through Grizzly, Montana, as a BNSF grain train climbs west toward Marias Pass on October 10, 2018.
BNSF 6928 (ES44C4) runs south on the Joint Line with a stack train destined for Texas.
Its late in the evening as BNSF 6382 (ES44AC) leads a loaded coal train through Greenland, Colorado.
BNSF 9156 & 9147 bring up the rear of an eastbound loaded coal train.
BNSF 6380 & 8944 lead an eastbound loaded coal train.
BNSF 7222, 9716, 9875, 9945, 9984, & 9203 lead a westbound manifest. Not all of the units are online.
Lowell siding in Everett is one of the more frequent places along the BNSF Scenic sub to land trains nearing hours of service. The viewing friendly pedestrian overpass and new-ish third track mak... (more)
BNSF 6382 (ES44AC) leads a load of coal south on the Joint Line through Castle Rock, Colorado.
BNSF Executive 9709 (SD70MAC) brings a freight into the BNSF yard in Golden, Colorado.
An eastbound BNSF coal empty curves along the shoulder of Montana State Highway 200 and river’s edge of the Clark Fork between Weeksville and Plains on May 9, 2010.
BNSF 7299 leads a westbound stack train toward a setting sun as it climbs the east slope of Mullan Pass just east of Austin siding, Austin, MT, on the Montana Rail Link.
BNSF 1404 and another triclops SD60M sandwich a rebuilt GP30 of some kind on a beautiful mid-July evening back in the summer of 2020. 1404 is leading the charge (timetable) east with the Galesburg... (more)
BNSF ES44C4 4276 is on the approach to Ottertail leading a 15 car BNSF business train west through thick forest fire smoke on CPKC's Mountain Sub.
BNSF ES44C4 4276 climbs west on the north track of CPKC's Laggan Sub between Lake Louise and Divide leading 15 of BNSF's business cars towards an overnight stop in Golden.
BNSF ES44C4 4276 hustles train 31B-03 west on CPKC's Laggan Sub between Massive and Eldon as the smoke from nearby forest fires gets thicker and thicker.
Business train 31B-03 holds the main at Banff while 201-02's train passes by in the siding.
BNSF ES44C4 4276 brings a BNSF business train into Banff, AB where its occupants will disembark for a few hours of exploring before continuing on towards Golden, BC.
BNSF 2712 GP39-2 joins a mix of light and heavy power waiting for servicing or assignments at the engine facility in Denver, Colorado.
BNSF 7731 meets UPY 625 in the Union Pacific's North Yard in Denver, Colorado.
The rhythm of a loaded coal train runs up the grade on the Joint Line between Greenland and Palmer Lake, Colorado.
BNSF 6382 (ES44AC) runs over a bridge in the town of Castle Rock, Colorado as it heads south on the Joint Line.
BNSF 6382 (ES44AC) runs towards Larkspur, Colorado in evening light.
Clouds and fog shroud the mountains around Trout Creek, Montana, as a westbound BNSF ballast train trundles along the Clark Fork, casting its reflection in the calm water of Frog Pond on the morni... (more)
CPKC train 31B-03 speeds into Canmore.
In a "things you never thought you'd see" moment, BNSF ES44C4s 4276 and 7078 lead a 15 car BNSF business train west along CPKC's Laggan Sub.
BNSF ET44C4 3270 is tied down in Jasper Yard track #2 with an empty crude oil train from Washington.
An eastbound manifest coming out of the siding at Machens, Missouri. Shot with a 12 MP Canon Digital Rebel. It was a big improvement in cameras for me.
BNSF 6382 (ES44AC) runs south on the Joint Line through Castle Rock, Colorado.
The venerable ES44AC has the duty of leading the BNSF coal trains on the Joint Line.
BNSF 6382 (ES44AC) runs through the trees at Sedalia, Colorado.
A solid train of double stacks from the west coast crosses over a frozen Lake Ashtabula on the Karnak trestle near Luverne, ND.
A lengthy manifest crosses Peruque Creek coming out of the siding at Gibb, near O'Fallon, Missouri.
The "east local" out of La Crosse rumbles down the Aurora Sub near Genoa. The train will do some cabbing work with dead trains ahead and also local work to Savanna. A couple of easy roll... (more)
As slow as this Q-train was going, I wouldn't be surprised that the date "22" was January date out of Seattle! A 1x1 South Seattle to Chicago intermodal is doing all it can to save fuel ... (more)
A Grand Fork to Kansas City manifest train rolls south along the Mississippi River near Victory on the BNSF Aurora Sub. The train is working towards Galesburg and then west on the Transcon to KC. ... (more)
The Grand Forks to the BRC freight, is rolling down the Aurora Sub along side the Mississippi River. Here the train passes back waters south of Genoa.
The crew on this loaded ore train is happy they didn't have the track washout under them at MP 268.8. Unfortunately, the Z-train an hour behind them wouldn't be as lucky. Now, BNSF has quite a mes... (more)
Yard engines taking the day off
Snow for the day's storm blankets the county road as BNSF 6382 runs a loaded coal train south on the Joint Line through Greenland, Colorado.
A loaded BNSF coal train runs south on the Joint Line through Greenland, Colorado in the last minutes of sun for the day.
BNSF 6382 (ES44AC) leads a loaded coal train through Castle Rock on the Joint Line.
An empty coal train heads north along the UP main 2 track towards Denver on Colorado's Joint Line as the DP motors shove through Acequia.
A Denver, CO to Provo, UT manifest train grinds up the 2.1% grade of Coal Creek Canyon as the headend nears Tunnel 1.
With a fresh crew on board, a westbound loaded coal train departs Sterling off the UP Pass as it begins its trip across eastern Colorado to Denver.
Over 17,600 tons of train are on the drawbar of the two EMD motors as they pull an Eagle Butte Mine, WY to Smithers Lake, TX coal train up the 1.6% grade near the Palmer Lake.
Three GE motors hold back a heavy Spokane, WA to Alliance, TX intermodal Q-train as it descends down the Palmer Divide through Monument. Even though this train is classified as an intermodal train... (more)
A line of BNSF heavy motors runs through the servicing island at the engine facility in Denver, Colorado.
The hottest train on the system, the Willow Springs, IL to North Bay, CA Z1, races down the nearly 1% grade of Walapai at 70 MPH as it hauls 7,200' of train with 36 UPS loads for Northern Californ... (more)
The hot Willow Springs, IL to San Bernardino, CA Z-train races west out of Valentine as it starts to reach track speed of 70 MPH.
An eastbound BNSF coal empty meets a westbound BNSF coal train at Winston, Montana, on September 26, 2007. Montana Rail Link’s 840 local power was used to help the westbound coal load up Winston... (more)
The Chilli Sub was a complete mess on this Monday afternoon. Lots of westbounds were backed up from Niota back thru Stronghurst. A few eastbounds trickled out of Fort Madison keeping things rollin... (more)
BNSF 7828 (ES44DC) leads a freight towards Larkspur, Colorado on the Joint Line.
BNSF 1899 (SD40-2) brings a freight to Denver on the Greeley Sub.
