Fireworks light up the evening sky as C&IM 30 (RS1325) and BN-3 (E9AM) rest quietly at the east end of the yard during the Illinois Railway Museum's 2025 Labor Day weekend.

During the Illinois Railway Museum's 2025 Diesel Days event, BN 9976 (E9AM) leads the coach train through Johnson Siding, meeting METX 308 with the Nebraska Zephyr trainset.

During the Illinois Railway Museum's 2025 Diesel Days event, BN 9976 (E9AM) leads the coach train through Johnson Siding.

BN 5383 (U30C) sits on display next to Barn 9 at the Illinois Railway Museum during the museum's 2025 Diesel Days event.

Correction: There are apparently no NTSB/STB reports on this incident. However, on further research, this derailment was not due to flooding, but rather improper slack management by the mid... (more)

In the twilight of these locomotives' storied careers pulling first Zephyrs, then Chicago commuters, BN 9924 heads westbound late in the afternoon with some of those same commuters, heading home f... (more)

Roster photograph of Burlington Northern GE C30-7 working on a work train at Glendo, Wyoming on July 22, 1999.

During the Illinois Railway Museum's 2025 Diesel Days event, BN 5383 (U30C) returns from a Take the Throttle run and meets CNW 411 (F7A), which is inactive today, merely sitting at the station wit... (more)

BN coal trains meet near Reno Junction, Wyoming in May of 1991. It's hard to imagine that parts of the Powder River coal line were still single track at this time.

Laying over in Burlington Northern Railroad's Interbay Yard is GP9 1922. This Geep was built by EMD in August 1957 as Northern Pacific 337. On August 26, 1999, it would be renumbered BNSF 1628. ... (more)

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.

Westbound BN passes Rochelle Depot. Corrected - F-45

After the merger, BN SD40-2s were ubiquitous on former Santa Fe lines. Here the 6365 West slams through Camden, MO on the home stretch into Kansas City, passing the old magnetic flagman wig-wag cr... (more)

Burlington Northern SD-9 6205 on ready track at BN Clyde Yard

BN 7182 and BNSF 4729 lead a westbound manifest past Ashby, NE on its way to Alliance and beyond. The 4729 was one of those Dash9s pressed into service with no markings but for road numbers. Fuji ... (more)