The Beatrice local pokes along at 10 mph south towards Beatrice. The job works down the 31-mile branch with decent-sized customers towards the end of the line. The train has a hefty 41 cars today.... (more)

A neat power combination typical of the early post-merger years has SD75M 217 leading GP30u 2420 and B30-7B 4096 on an eastbound manifest near Laguna, NM. Fuji Astia.

BNSF 715 works up the long grade from the Rio Grande valley to Mountainair, NM on a frosty Saturday morning. Ektachrome.

Climbing up the western side of the Tehachapi Mountains is Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Highest Priority TOFC/COFC train 7-991-07, 300-or-so miles into its journey from northern California... (more)

Good lookin' SD75M No. 226 and an SD40-2 hustle eastbound vans past CA Jct., MO on a September morning. Not sure how many decades the classic Santa Fe station sign has existed, but they were a fun... (more)

BN 6923 is mated with a pair of B30-7Bs as they lift an eastbound intermodal train up the grade over the Pine Ridge near Crawford, NE.

On their way to their final resting place - Brownsville,Tx.

BNSF 155 West drops downgrade toward Belen on the open plain beyond Abo Canyon as storm clouds gather about the Manzano Mountains. Kodachrome.

BNSF 4594 West is descending the grade from Marias Pass as it exits Shed No. 10 on a fine late summer evening in the high country.

A westbound grain train drops down the 1.8% grade on the west slope of Marias Pass. The locomotives are negotiating the sharp curve at Windy Point in an area known as Snow Slip.

As unusual as it seems to see a four axle road unit nowadays, the GP60M was a well proportioned unit that looked great in its Warbonnet colors, albeit a bit marred by the intrusive BNSF lettering.... (more)

Enjoying a great vacation at Maggie's On the River, feeling welcomed in this place and meeting a character named Elmo made this a memorable trip. Here a local is headed south along the river. El... (more)

"The JB Hunt Train" EB. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

West Bound BNSF stack train on Gassman Coulee Trestle

Plenty of power for this IHB to KCK manifest as it grinds it way up Edelstein Hill.