Heading up the west side of Cajon Pass, and about to enter the first of two tunnels at Alray, is an Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway intermodal train, pulled by ATSF GP50 3822, SF30C 9504 (ex-U3... (more)

BNSF 3171 (GP50) sorts a cut of cars from the yard in downtown Denver, Colorado.

Burlington Northern, BN 3144 leads an E/B intermodal near the top of the canyon on February 24, 1996 with an ATSF EMD. Clearly a winter photograph in the canyon before it would turn green.

ATSF 3842 leads an E/B Intermodal near the top of Abo Canyon on June 1, 1996 with ATSF 95, 5211 and BN 4027. I photographed this scene from the hillside above the cut before Scholle, NM.

BNSF 3171 (GP50) works a cut of cars in the large yard in Denver, Colorado.

The Kelly Lake local with their usual Wednesday train of bentonite cars crosses over the Dempsey Creek trestle along the CN Keenan sub as they head west for home to tie up.

BNSF 3171 (Ex AT&SF GP50) works a cut of cars in the BNSF yard in downtown Denver, Colorado.

Bellingham in 2010.

Roster shot of BNSF 3183 & 2642 working Appleyard on September 20, 2022. The BNSF 3183 is a former ATSF GP50 rebuilt to what BNSF considers a GP25. This power was switching and later worked the &q... (more)

Southbound train. Photo by H.J. Bowers. From my collection.

A former MP unit is paired with a GP38-2 on some local power. There is always hope. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

A former MP unit which has had dynamic brakes "donated" by another unit. After SOU added d/b to F units somewhere in the 60s the practice seemed to stop for years but it's became common... (more)

BNSF GP50 3178 leads a westbound local by the Joliet station.

One of the last places we expected to find a dead line. In October of 2003 we stumble across a sting of EX CNW GP50's stored at the north end of the Montana Subdivision. With the Union Pacific cro... (more)

BNSF 3171 (GP25) and mate run light in the terminal at Hudson, Colorado.