On June 4, 2002, a trio of Burlington Northern Santa Fe EMD SD40-2s power a westbound BNSF train westbound over Marias Pass east of Bison, Montana.

Cold weather brings air problems for H-GALMEM at Gibb siding. I never saw the conductor on the ground inspecting the train until I looked at the photos later in the day.

A quartet of GEs are in charge of an eastbound manifest pulling the grade east of East Glacier and the Two Medicine bridge as they approach the control point at Grizzly, MT. The mountains of Glaci... (more)

Rolling west through Basta toward the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach is a BNSF intermodal train. Santa Fe GP60 4021, not yet rebranded with BNSF reporting marks, teamed with an ATSF Dash 8-4... (more)

An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight exits Tunnel 1 and fills the horseshoe curve at the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon as it drops downgrade between Plain and Clay, Colorado, on a dry Ja... (more)

Beginning to ramp up speed as BNSF 7747 is about to duck under Highway 169 and continue on south with taconite pellets made at the U.S. Steel Keewatin plant on a nice afternoon.

Eastbound and westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freights meet at Leyden, Colorado, on Union Pacific’s former Rio Grande Moffat Tunnel main line west of Denver on February 19, 2002. The east... (more)

BNSF SD70MACe Number 9753 Hits The Elevated Curve At Townsend With The Fall Colours Lingering Above.

Coming down the Casco Sub at mp 85 with loads of pellets, the other player in moving taconite in NE Minnesota is the BNSF which handles production from U.S. Steel's Keetac plant and Hibbing Taconi... (more)

The Grand Rapids local has crossed from Minnesota to Wisconsin on its way to Superior.

A WB oil train begins its trip up Mullan Pass as it departs Helena with a Santa Fe warbonnet unit assisting second out.

BNSF 2098 leads the CN L580 in Brantford Ontario. Here it is seen putting its train together for the day before departing. BNSF 2098 is on CN for BNSF returning power hours to CN. Two days after t... (more)

BNSF 9992 West has a string of OPSX hoppers as it moves onto single track near Pleasant Dale, NE. A second main track was eventually added to most of the single track sections of railroad on this ... (more)

Faded lady 5383 seems to have been basking in the sun too long, compared to its more vibrant cousins. This westbound J.B. Hunt container train is plodding upgrade past the Cosnino Road crossing be... (more)

BNSF 4671 is westbound just shy of the Arizona line at Manuelito, NM. Back in ABS days and days of signals displayed to the right of an approaching train, the left hand running nature of this terr... (more)