Football fans tailgate before the Falcons vs Bills game as a BNSF Scherer coal train gives a few friendly toots of the horn

BNSF 6039 (ES44AC) shoves a coal train through Spruce, Colorado as it heads south on the Joint Line.

BNSF 6039 (ES44AC) muscles a loaded coal train through Spruce, Colorado as it runs southbound on the Joint Line.

Pikes Peak looms in the distance as BNSF 6039 (ES44AC) shoves a load coal train towards Spruce, Colorado.

BNSF 6039 & 9138 with westbound empties.

Westbound empties.

BNSF 6039 leads an empty coal train east across the causeway on the northwest end of Lake Pend Oreille on Montana Rail Link. The train entered MRL trackage at Ponderay and will run the length of t... (more)

BNSF 6039 leads an eastbound empty coal train along Denton Slough, part of Lake Pend Oreille on Montana Rail Link near Denton, east of Hope. The train is headed for Missoula for its next crew chan... (more)

BNSF 6039 and BNSF 9196 sandwich Duluth & Northeastern 2-8-0 No. 28 (former DM&IR 332) on its way from the Lake Superior Railroad Museum to the Cloquet Terminal in Cloquet, MN (the former D&NE) fo... (more)

After dumping at Midwest Energy, an empty BNSF coal train lumbers up the tracks and prepares to head back west.

Wisconsin-bound coal train passes through Wadena on Valentine's Day morning.