Westbound, just over the summit of Marias Pass, a familiar leaser leads a train along the south edge of Glacier National Park.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway train H-KCRI1-23 rolls into Barstow, where the crew that has handled this train across the Needles Sub, having boarded in Needles, will get off to allow a fres... (more)

Lease power on the BNSF was quite prevalent in the mid 90's as evidenced here with LMX and GATX units.

A pair of LMX GE B39-8s power an eastbound Burlington Northern freight train along the Mississippi River at Victory, Wisconsin, on October 12, 1991.

BN intermodal train 1, powered by a pair of LMX GE B39-8 locomotives, approaches Shed 10 as it descends Marias Pass between Blacktail and Java, Montana, on the afternoon of February 29, 1992.

At 8:42 am on May 10, 1992, an eastbound Burlington Northern intermodal train, led by LMX Leasing GE B39-8 No. 8567, passes the old passenger station at Earlville, Illinois. BN leased 100 of these... (more)

LMX 8537 leads a BN freight thru Hemingford, NE in June of 1991.

Midwest winter
On a cold, snowless and achromatic February 19, 1995, a Burlington Northern train sprints out of Steward, Illinois, passing rich, but fallow farmland waiting for another ... (more)

An eastbound Burlington Northern intermodal train meets a westbound coal empty at the end of double track at Joder, Nebraska, on July 3, 1989. Leading the intermodal is LMX GE B39-8 No. 8558. BN o... (more)

Colorado’s Joint Line between South Denver and Bragdon (Pueblo) is two parallel lines, one built and owned by Rio Grande, and the other built and owned by Santa Fe. Colorado & Southern, later Bu... (more)

On the morning of June 5, 1993, Burlington Northern’s train 4, led by LMX GE B39-8 No. 8540, rolls eastbound over one of the Sinsinawa River truss bridges at milepost 172 west of Portage, Illino... (more)

LMX 8517 is on the point of Q-164 at West Point, NY 4/2000

Deep in the heart of the Columbia River Gorge, westbound intermodal BN 13 rolls through Home Valley. The truss bridge spanning the mouth of Wind River was recently replaced by BNSF.

LMX GE B39-8 No. 8536 leads an eastbound Burlington Northern grain train over the Java Bridge over the Middle Fork of the Flathead River at Java, Montana, while climbing Marias Pass on March 1, 19... (more)

A westbound BNSF baretable train led by a pair of LMX B39-8Es passes through the Honeymoon Tunnels near Belden, CA on UP's Canyon Sub, deep in the Feather River Canyon.